Regardless of my feelings about the dojo at the moment, I have to say that as much as they're often derided in the general martial arts community, seeing forms done by two people who've been doing them for upside of thirty years and have fought bare knuckle/full contact raises my opinion of them, at least. That said, I think they're often actually worth of derision the way they are commonly taught, but if one can find someone who has put effort into making their forms their muscle-memory library of practical bad-ass-ery, then they're worth it. Tangentially, an interesting analogy - that forms are just a folder where one stores collections of related, functional drills, and learning and maintaining forms acts as an analogical filing system.

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