Timeline for What are the purposes of martial arts forms?
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| Mar 28, 2017 at 13:53 | comment | added | Ben S | Forms have great value as moving meditation and for teaching structure and new movements to beginners. They are a kind of library of techniques for your body to store and practice. However, as my teacher Chang Sik Kim said to me once about his own forms - they're not for fighting. In his zen martial art, their purpose is self-realization. Otherwise I agree with Dave - In a real fight, if forms are all you do, you'll be immediately lost - they're put together for learning and practicing - you can't employ their structure in a serious fighting situation. | |
| Jan 2, 2016 at 8:27 | comment | added | gideon marx | Why not get a gun? | |
| Jan 22, 2014 at 5:14 | comment | added | Thomas Denmark Uylenbroek | THANK You for finally providing a sane answer to this question. Everyone else is nut-riding Karate and TKD, but from what I've read, none of them has actually ever been punched in the face in reality. I am glad not everyone is deluded. It also saves me from typing that all up +1 | |
| Nov 8, 2013 at 13:37 | history | edited | Dave Liepmann | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 26, 2013 at 13:23 | history | edited | Dave Liepmann | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 19, 2012 at 22:29 | comment | added | Dave Liepmann | @Trevoke I'm not 100% sure which parts you regard as which, but I organized it in order of relevance to the majority of readers. That is, I think people should know that my experience of solo kata was that they're often useless, that they have major drawbacks for the purposes people claim they're used for, and they have some minor benefits, though historically they were used as a kludge or for militaristic indoctrination. | |
| Nov 19, 2012 at 22:22 | comment | added | Anon | Thanks. That's pretty interesting information. May I recommend reorganizing it in the more classical format : thesis / antithesis / synthesis, instead of showing the antithesis first? | |
| Nov 18, 2012 at 6:57 | history | answered | Dave Liepmann | CC BY-SA 3.0 |