When should you back off in free fight training?

[SteveLau]

When? Can you? Let's start the discussion with a situation - you have figured out who is the winner.




Regards,

KC
Hong Kong

[David Jamieson]

You mean sparring?

You likely would be good to be at a non competitive state of mind when sparring and use the experience to work the skills.
You don't have to go full blast, you can meter it to where you are comfortable and outcomes are worked towards.

It's training after all. If someone can't recycle their training partners because they keep injuring, then that person doesn't deserve a training partner.

Getting mad? check your ego. Getting aggressive? Check your ego.

Good training should be calm and a learning experience, no shots to the head should be taken personally.

[SteveLau]

David Jamieson, good input. I have seen fellow classmates sparring without another person supervising, no referee, no sifu. But they did well. When one had figured out there was a winner, he backed off and dis-engaged. Then they started to engage again because the time of the round was not up yet. And that is what I want to train up in sparring skill - the fighting method, the rules, and the ethnics.




Regards,

KC
Hong Kong