Quote Originally Posted by sanjuro_ronin View Post
People demo chi-sao and forms to show their ability at doing chi-sao and forms, not to show their fighting ability, if people choose to view it that way, that is their problem, no?
People can demo whatever they like.

At the same time, I was suggesting that we need to keep in mind the meaningfulness of what is being demo'ed. Doing bike riding motions in the air (forms) doesn't demonstrate anything other than you can do bike riding motions in the air (forms). Riding around with a bike on training wheels (chi sao) doesn't demo anything other that you can ride around on a bike with training wheels on (do chi sao).