Fubo wrote:I've found that sparring with my teachers have been very rewarding. Sometimes they bring their level down to mine and sometimes they turn up the intensity quite a bit, but either way I always learn a tone. I consider that sparring, just with different levels of intensity. The valuable things I get are not only limited to trying to pull things off on someone that's good, but I get to feel how he moves in that kind of situation, and also he gets to feel how i move and can correct me from what he has felt of me.
When I am sparring with my teachers I am trying to "win" and they push me to go as hard as i can (unless we are doing some sparring with less intensity).
Fubo, you are trying to win, but they aren't. That's not sparring. That's a two person exercise, and it's one of the most valuable and powerful experiences that Chinese martial arts has to offer.
From my perspective, Jess O