Improving Your Forms Training with Training Forms

When students advance from one ranking level to the next, they are expected to have their forms advance with them as well. Meaning even an advanced level student will test on their beginner forms, and when performed, the beginner forms should appear advanced by execution of technique. This shows that their martial arts altogether has advanced.

Now this is where the importance of "training forms" come in. Since your beginner forms have been with you the longest, and you should know them the best, you should see them in a new light as you move up. They are your training forms. When you receive a new correction, detail, or concept during your lesson do not only try to implement it solely on what you are working on at the time. Go back and apply it to your training forms, that way you can place all effort on the correction/concept rather than trying to remember the next move at the same time. This allows you to make real-time adjustments without the stutters that happen when the mind is preoccupied on sequences.

The benefit will encompass more than just your training forms, but your new stuff and your entire martial arts altogether. So be smart with what you have, train smarter and progress stronger. Mastery is not achieved through first tries, it takes dedicated mental and physical work and rework.