Do you agree with the following statement?

[mawali]

"A five minute round in the ring or on the mats will often teach you more about yourself than a lifetime of solo forms or cooperative, non full-contact training.”

The way that I look at this is you have to

- "develop" your skill from partner drill.
- "test" your skill from sparring/wrestling.

If you have never trained "hip throw", you can wrestle for the rest of your life, you still won't be able to apply "hip throw" in wrestling.

Your thought?

Verdad que si! That is the truth.
When you are doing this slow stuff without an 'enemy' you imagine yourself invincible but when you get hit, you start to crap your draws because you worshipped BS and were unwilling to adapt or understand how to train.