Kata and Kumite

[BDPulver]

I'm gonna agree with sensei8 and add this.

I come from a "traditional" school in that we were always drilled that one must practice there kihon to become better at kata/kumite.

Kata helps the practitioner on moving, balance control, thinking in retrospect. Occassionally when we did drills we would also take certain parts of a kata and use them paired up.

Kumite gives the practioner that feeling that everything they have been trained and drilled is being used against a opponent finally.

But if they dont practice they become lax in there techniques and it looks sloppy same with kata.

So in that practice.