Daniel wrote:And no-one has tried to hit you during the year since?
D.
Sarcasm. Oh yeah, like that´ll work.
DeusTrismegistus wrote:
Does it have to? The question really isn't how closely does sparring mimic a violent encounter but does sparring develop skills and abilities that will be useful if not vital in a violent encounter. Of course a person training for solely self defense may want to use more scenario type sparring events that do mimic the type of likely encounters than a squaring off deal with rounds.
Sparring is fun; it is NOT a fight simulation.
johnwang wrote:The skill that you can use in sparring is your true skill. The skill that you can't use in sparring is the skill that you think you have but you truly don't have it yet.
RobP2 wrote:DeusTrismegistus wrote:
Does it have to? The question really isn't how closely does sparring mimic a violent encounter but does sparring develop skills and abilities that will be useful if not vital in a violent encounter. Of course a person training for solely self defense may want to use more scenario type sparring events that do mimic the type of likely encounters than a squaring off deal with rounds.
The question then is what are those useful skills and abilities? The prime failing IME frommartial artists is the unability to deal with the explosiveness of even your average Saturday night brawler - partly, I think, because we are conditioned mentally by the arts we practice to be either "the good guy" who will wait for the bad guy to go first, or the sportist who applies ring craft outside the ring. Either can be effective, depending on circumstances, but I have to say by and large I've never seen martial arts guys do well in that type of encounter. It's all well and good and useful having tactile sensitivity, posture, great form, smooth movement, etc etc but if it all goes down the swannee the minute someone bellows C*NT!!! in your face then it ain't worth diddly. It's what you see in those clips of people who lose it when sparring going into "playground" mode.
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