I guess I look at it this way. It is the "rest of the fight" which is so important to that encounter and ultimately leads to success or not-like Bruce Lee once mentioned to sift out all the extra movements "like wheat from chaff"-you cannot take your small action and sift it out of the larger encounter thereby making it something it is not.
This changes and alters perspective. You also take the chance of changing it just so-so that now it is a seperate action from what you would do, when it is inserted back into the fighting environment.
Remember this admonition, "one must be struck a thousand times, thrown down a thousand times, etc..etc... they are saying what good fighters have known for centuries, which is the only way to aquire skills in fighting is to simply.....fight!
Granted you can run drills, solo practice, test cutting, work out, think about, post forum opinions, etc. but when it's down to the actual buisness of managing and overcoming an actual hostile opponent all the drilling in the world is not going to suffice. You have to expirence it as close to "real" as possible.
This also goes back to our padded sword vs. no padded sword debate as well with Jako-
I know what you mean by looking at the action, but this is probably best reserved for your 1/4 speed drills with wasters. The sparring environment should be reserved for pure effort.
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