why train forms???
As has been stated previously, forms help perfect technique and develop specific muscle groups useful to your particular art. However, when talking about there usefulness for developing FIGHT skills, to me the biggest lesson form learn is developing a sense of perserverance when all you really want to do is pack up, go home and have a nice cold beer... Perserverance is crucial to fighting, but if you just really want to learn to fight, then fight a lot; get beaten, develope a bad attitude and some dirty tricks; become insanely agressive and fight some more.
May i just say that this is not an approach that i advocate, but it really will teach you how to fight like nothing else will... I hope you don't go down that road and persist with training perserverance and avoidance; just make sure you add some pepper into your training and turn up the gas a little from time to time to make sure you get those techniques really sizzling.
Have fun.
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