full contact WITH DEATH AND BLOOD
well maybe not death and hopefully not too much blood, but after a haltage of the full contact in our club (well before i joined- something to do with a nasty accident) it is being started again, first lesson this sunday. the fellow teaching it has about 5 years of muay thai under his belt (so to speak... bwahahaha im so funny) and is a good mate so hopefully I wont turn up to school with eyes so black i look like a street victim.
anyway my question is- how many people here actually do "full contact" (by that I mean not pulling punches etc, not neccessarily throws and so on) and if so, tips? I dont mean stuff like "keep your guard up" or "head kicks dont work" cos I have, in all my incredible knowledge, figured those ones out. we arent doing throws to start out with- maybe later. and obviously we arent starting out full contact straight away, we're going to do it gradually, starting with padding etc (my friend managed to rustle up some of those tkd vests with the target things on them)