oftheherd1
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I posted this before, but it seems appropriate to do so again, especially with what I have quoted above.
I used to teach a 4th Dan TKD practioner, teaching him Hapkido. There were several occassions, probably 4 or 5, when I would be teaching him a technique and he would stop and get a bemused look on his face. After a couple of times I kind of knew what was coming but I would ask.
He would then proceed to tell me in such and such a form, they were told to make a certain movement that made no sense. When it was questioned, he was usually told it was for artistic purposes (I can remember being told the same with some moves of some of the forms I learned when I briefly studied TKD). But he realized the technique I was teaching him at that point, was that 'artistic' move, with very slight variations. Now after many years, I can't tell you what form nor the exact move, but he was certain enough and with the experience to know.
So I wonder if the 'random twisting hand movements' might be grabs from the old Karate forms but the meanings have been lost? Apparently, at least some of the moves that defy an easy application may be so, because they have been changed to where if you don't in fact know the technique they desended from, you would assume they must have been just for 'art.'