buddyboss domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/duello5/public_html/_pathofthesword.com/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114profile-builder domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/duello5/public_html/_pathofthesword.com/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114Solo forms are a part of many different martial arts from around the world, and European martial arts are no exception. Solo and partnered martial forms appear in many different Italian fighting manuscripts, particularly from the Bolognese tradition, as well as in German sources like one included in D\u00f6bringer\u2019s treatise<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Forms play a diversity of roles in martial training including performative and mnemonic, as well as for fitness, mechanical and tactical conditioning. As modern practitioners they also provide a way to connect with the history of the art and to reach back to the work of the masters and students that came before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Check out this other article<\/a> from the blog that has a couple examples of Italian assaults for both sidesword and longsword demonstrated both solo and partnered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Forms in martial arts often receive criticism for being simply a rehearsed piece of choreography that has no relevance to effective martial training. There are a few responses to this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Effective combative application is not the only reason to study a martial art. As stated above, forms play a variety of valuable roles in training. Connecting with the roots of the art, building your mechanical abilities, and guiding your memorization of technique are all excellent and fully valid reasons to practice them. I also find them to be really satisfying and fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Place martial forms correctly in your training to meet your martial goals. If your goal is combative application then forms are best suited as tools for conditioning of fitness and mechanics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Focus on maximizing your physical capacity and your precision in your forms training. If you practice with intent and challenge yourself to increase your accuracy, depth of posture, power, and speed, you\u2019ll get some significant payoff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This will also free your partner time to focus on perception, timing, and strategy, knowing that the mechanics side of your practice is well looked after already.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Forms can be excellent training tools for building your tactical ability if you use them as a jumping-off point rather than a rote series of actions. Try the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Subscribers can check out these exercises from the Duello Armizare library on Play-Building to better understand the ideas above:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Solo forms are a part of many different martial arts from around the world, and European martial arts are no exception. Solo and partnered martial…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathofthesword.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathofthesword.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathofthesword.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathofthesword.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathofthesword.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pathofthesword.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126833,"href":"https:\/\/pathofthesword.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125686\/revisions\/126833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathofthesword.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathofthesword.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathofthesword.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathofthesword.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Do Forms Have Efficacy?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
1. Who Cares?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
2. Use Them Appropriately<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
3. Base Not Rote<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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