YES! For so many reasons.
- Slow let's you think, time to make corrections, get the moves right.
- Slow builds strength and balance.
- Slow encourages finishing each move and doing transitions elegantly.
Check out this slow version of the 42 forms.
Sun style 73 slow.
This is how I learned it. Transition to doing it at a faster pace not too hard once I knew what I was trying to do.
And here's the BafaWubu, a new combination form put together in China in 2018. These are not simple moves, but the overall practice is short and easy to remember.
Finally, this one is truly amazing. It's the 8 Silk Brocades, really. Where we do each movement 6 times, he does each one only once. And he takes 20 minutes to do that, while we finish in about 11 minutes. Yikes.