I don’t get to do enough sparring, haven’t done it in a while actually. I want to go to other schools and just politely ask the instructor, no ego, no machoism, if I can just spar with some students there one night, swap stuff, try out our stuff on one another for fun, etc. I also wanna meet some people from KFO who live in the area, kind of do a huge 1 day thing at a park, get like 10 of us together from KFO and beat each other up.
rolling IS sparring.
unless your randomass “sparring = punching” has absolutly no rules (which it does you puss.)
:rolleyes:
I roll twice a week. When rolling, I try 100% to put on submissions, but I apply them with a bit of graduality, rather than slapping them on and cranking as hard as I can instantly… so, say, 80%-90%. Meanwhile, I am trying 100% to stop any submission attempt on me, and my partner is trying the same. So, rolling varies between 80% and 100%.
Recently, I have only been sparring once or twice a week in class. We don’t use protective gear (other than groin cups) so the emphasis is on footwork, speed, technique, and control. Contact is about 50% to the body and we try to pull head contact. With an experienced partner, pulling the contact is fine because we can recognize when a technique would have landed with authority, but an inexperienced partner doesn’t always respect a technique unless it really connects.
I’m trying to hook back up with an old sparring partner for work outside of class. We would wear light gloves and headgear and go about 90%. He has been out for a while and just concentrating on weight training and I’m still letting my knee heal up before I up the intensity level.
My knee and shoulder are doing considerably better… Am looking for new training partner as well… No one really round here tho. Hoping someone from my kwoon will be down to fight…
I need to find a weightbench to use too…
I don’t spar, sparring is for neanderthals and people who lack confidence in their ability.
I practice non contact moderate force chi blasts.
I just figure it is pretty much a waste of time unless I can go 100% all the time.
100% hurts people
I do certian drills 100% but wouldnt say I spar 100%… Im not going for a KO when sparring with friends…
I waste my time often. Remember, I practice SD! 
I prefer to waste the time of others to my own…
Why waste all that time using watered down techniques to pummel your opponent in to the ground. I train to finish my opponent off in one or two moves. I can’t do that with pads or at half my ability.
So what do you do to train? Only way to go full contact no gloves deadly techniques is to find bums or the like and beat the snot out of them…
SD- thats why I don’t bother, if I can’t use it why try faking it? I just do a lot of form work and shadow boxing.
Sparring is a good way to get down throws and takendowns.
those are all built into my forms.
Yes, but just doing the forms wont develop the proper muscles as well as actually throwing someone… Actually throwing people will get the dynamics of the thrown down more perfectly as well. WDs thought on the heavy bag thread would work well too…
the word sparring implies striking, not wrestling. Wrestling is a great sport/ art form but it’s a matter of definition.
no that is what the forms are for, to develope those muscles and those reflexes. If you just do the forms hundreds of times a day or thousands a week you won’t have any problem throwing someone for real. You can’t throw them like you would in combat anyway so why bother? I say just do your forms over and over again, thousands of times.
preposterous. You have have to practice throwing someone hundreds of times before you get it right. the form is only part of it. You have to deal with another human being who may not be in the perfect position for your throw. forms are a collection of techniques. and getting the right posture for a technique is about 1% of the way to using it for self defense.