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- From: lauren@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Brian T. Murray)
- Subject: Re: What are the purposes of Forms ?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.133458.13166@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
- Sender: news@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Mr. News)
- Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor, MI
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 13:34:58 GMT
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- phd07@keele.ac.uk (H.C. Patel) Writes:
- >Basically, I want to know what are the purposes of forms ?.
- >I do not see why there is so much emphasis on them. How can it help someones
- >ability as a martial artist ?.
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- I find that continuously practicing forms and katas makes the
- transition between techniques and combinations of techniques natural.
- Eventually you learn to do them without thinking. You don't get this
- from just practicing the techniques themselves, and during sparing you
- are mostly thinking about strategy and tactics.
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- What does your instructor say?
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