What sparring methodologies do you guys train?

[kungfoozer]

1. punching vs kicking
2. punchign vs kicking and punching
3. close sparring(can't step back)
4. striking vs someone trying to clinch/throw
5. long hand vs short hand
6. long hand vs long hand
7. short hand vs short hand
8. jab vs jab
9. just throwing and take downs
10. specific strikes/defenses against unrestrained opponent
11. bridging vs non-bridging
12. entering vs someone backing up/counterstriking
13. clinch sparring
14. etc


These are all good methods as are their opposites. What methods do all use in your training and how hard do you all feel you should go? Also how often should some type of sparring occur?

I believe that most sparring should happen atleast weekly with light to medium level contact. Hard sparring should happen sometimes but unless you are professional fighters it can be dangerous for those involved. But it needs to happen sometimes.

[YouKnowWho]

What methods do all use in your training?
run down principle + 5 elements strategy.

[hskwarrior]

1. punching vs kicking
2. punchign vs kicking and punching
3. close sparring(can't step back)
4. striking vs someone trying to clinch/throw
5. long hand vs short hand
6. long hand vs long hand
7. short hand vs short hand
8. jab vs jab
9. just throwing and take downs
10. specific strikes/defenses against unrestrained opponent
11. bridging vs non-bridging
12. entering vs someone backing up/counterstriking
13. clinch sparring
14. etc

uhhhh we don't punch and kick anything unless its done in a form. anything else is just not worth the time :rolleyes:

[EarthDragon]

kungfooer
why do you ask these stupid questions when your are not really looking for an answer?

[Iron_Eagle_76]

uhhhh we don't punch and kick anything unless its done in a form. anything else is just not worth the time :rolleyes:

LMAO, thanks for this one. I needed a good laugh this morning.:D

[taai gihk yahn]

1. punching vs kicking
2. punchign vs kicking and punching
3. close sparring(can't step back)
4. striking vs someone trying to clinch/throw
5. long hand vs short hand
6. long hand vs long hand
7. short hand vs short hand
8. jab vs jab
9. just throwing and take downs
10. specific strikes/defenses against unrestrained opponent
11. bridging vs non-bridging
12. entering vs someone backing up/counterstriking
13. clinch sparring
14. etc


These are all good methods as are their opposites. What methods do all use in your training and how hard do you all feel you should go? Also how often should some type of sparring occur?

I believe that most sparring should happen atleast weekly with light to medium level contact. Hard sparring should happen sometimes but unless you are professional fighters it can be dangerous for those involved. But it needs to happen sometimes.

we usually just skip to #14: etc. (you know, tea, crumpets, the usual)

[David Jamieson]

punch vs cereal
kick vs spiderman
television vs radio
mtv vs a hot shower
miley cyrus vs rhinoceros

this is the way of true sparring. If you don't do these things, you aren't doing anything useful.

Wallet!

[wiz cool c]

for me lately [9. just throwing and take downs]
reason is ,i want to get real good at it so spend my time on it only for now. also it is the most fun for me.

[donjitsu2]

Our sparring consists of strikes (punches, kicks, ect...) and takedowns. We also work on ground game on other days. From week to week we change how much we emphaisze sparring and ground work.

Sparring it almost always light to medium, but a couple times a month we'll go hard.

We also train sparring-like drills: one guy is only allowed to attack while the other guy is only allowed to defend, slow "sparring", ect...

[SPJ]

I practice kao with forearm, elbow, shoulder, back, chest, hip, knee and leg etc

however, most of the techniques are not allowed in any sport venues

so in sparring, I use shuai jiao to get more points, punch and kick are set ups

for throw.

in ba ji, you just move in close and very close,

long/short hands are only relevent, if you fight at arm length or punch only

bridging or non bridging, you just move in any way.

yes, take the punches and kicks or neutralize them and move in and do your throws

you may lose points by being punched and kicked, but you win the points back by throwing the opponent.

and yes, you have to be not KO.

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move in and throw away is the methodology prefered by me in sparring.

:)

[SPJ]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0mXAWd7Ldw&feature=fvst

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1uIWWUK6LY&feature=related

spar sessions in my old high school.

:)

[SPJ]

if you are just doing throws, no need to wear helmet and gloves.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XopPA2cPZ2w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdzj8yeZu4U&feature=related

if you are doing punches and kicks also, need to wear helmet and gloves.

intensity level depending on you aggressiveness.

since there are no money involved.

so I think I am not a professional fighter, I do not get paid for doing what I am doing or sparring since high school in 1970s.

:o

[SPJ]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no8uuUFrV5Q&feature=related

learning how to throw for a year is better than learning how to punch for 3 years.

so they said.

:)

[SPJ]

if at long distance, you punch and kick.

if at elbow length, you elbow and knee strike

if you are close, you qin and na.

if you are at hugging distance or kissing distance, you throw.

this every body already knows.

:)

[David Jamieson]

gear up, go, nhb basically, decide on power used, what's not allowed, show courtesy, decide what you want to work on and go.

if you narrow it to techniques, then that would be drills in my opinion, with a partner, resisting, full on with the same tech over and over again is a really useful tool, but is not sparring.

It's definitely a little more of a hardcore way to do your two mans though.
It has alos helped me personally find what doesn't work for me and what does.
So I can narrow 5 chin na choices down to one, the one that works consistently within the most amount of variables.

In fact, these types of drills have helped me to figure out quite a lot of teh chin na that I have been taught and have learned.

They also work for getting you well versed in you reactions vs a variety of incoming.