Kata, Forms, Poomse: They Suck

[The Question]

LET's be honest here - there are forms and sets in pretty much every single MA going...
Well, there is when they reach the western world...

It's too bad that doing patterns isn't something that most international federation of whatever insist upon... if they didn't - instructors might have to get their young students to... oh I dunno actually contact spar for a while, or even funnier get them to practice the basics like punching and kicking PROPERLY.... cue lots of haymakers and wobbly toe punts.

After all gotta make the punters think they're getting the R££L traditional ****, especially as little Jimmy's mom thinks he looks so nice in that little white Gi/Dobok/over=priced pajama set...

I quite like the medatational state you can achieve by going through the same dammed sets almost every class...

No wait......... this is a different sensation

yep, it's boredom... my mistake.

Dude, dude. I like that ****. That was brilliant.

[TheMarquis]

Thank you...

One does try.

I am very trying - just ask my other half :)

[G-Off]

so, what's the difference between Pumsae and Hyung?

Same thing, different words. Dunno why.

Hyung means "pattern" though, I think. What's the literal tranlsation of Poomsae?

[FickleFingerOfFate]

so, what's the difference between Pumsae and Hyung?

IIRC Pumsae is the name of the forms in TKD,

Hyung is the pronounciation of the Kanji.


I, however, am no expert on TKD as I don't practice it.

YMMV.

[Purpleskunk]

i was expecting kajukendo sucks month.

[legomepanda]

What? Really? You guys don't like forms around here?
Actually I like forms, but as a memory thing. As for training or defense, they're useless.

LET's be honest here - there are forms and sets in pretty much every single MA going...

That's not really true, there's tons of 'em without forms, but for some reason the ones with forms tend to become unreasonably popular.

[patfromlogan]

"Only IDIOTS think kata is useless because they don't know what they are talking about!!!" 5/6/03 Asia

and I'll elaborate when I'm not making dinner and going to watch UFC...

[krazy kaju]

So what the **** is it called when teh wimmenz do kata?

[koreis]

So what the **** is it called when teh wimmenz do kata?

She-Man dancing.

[DerAuslander]

so, what's the difference between Pumsae and Hyung?

You want serious answer of funny haha answer?