Originally Posted by
t_niehoff
It depends on HOW you drill.
One sort of drills are essentially snippets of fighting (situational) -- for example, drilling passing the guard -- where you practice exactly what you are going to do as you are going to do it under realistic conditions. As you are fighitng within the drill, you will develop fighting skills by doing these sorts of drills.
The other sort of drills are prep work: developing coordination, etc. so that you can do the fighting and drilling mentioned above. This won't develop fighting skill but will enable you to do the fighting to develop fighting skill.
Agreed.
Psalms 144:1
Praise be my Lord my Rock,
He trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle !