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How to Fill Your Shelves with Sparring Trophies
It would be great to have all those shiny tournament trophies there is on display at your martial arts school or in your home? Well, you can. Just choose the number of trophies you want and then enter into that many tournaments! So, we got a little ahead of ourselves because you may be asking yourself. How do you get there? The answer to this is simple: sparring. You must supply yourself with a great deal of sparring instincts in training to find yourself on the winners podium with a medal or trohpy. You need experience and skill and that is why sparring training is a must. Or, more accurately, proper sparring is a must.
We put together some tips to squeeze the most out of your sparring, they are:
Let's establish something important the outset: sparring is not fighting. Sparring is a drill designed to enhance your fighting skills. It is not about winning or losing. It is about improvement. That means you need to curb your competitive spirit and approach sparring with an attitude centering on a positive learning experience.
If you are not in the higher belt ranks, you should never be sparring without proper supervision. In addition to having a knowledgeable eye presenting you with tips and pointers, there will be someone there to ensure the sparring session stays light and friendly.
It is imperative that in now way do you spar without the proper training gear on. We have all seen the professional fighter sparring and practiciing without saftey equipment, but they have been training many years. If you are training as a hobby or for amateur or tournament competition, you will want to wear as much protective gear as possible. This includes head, chest, feet, hand, and groin protection. Doing this will eliminate the likelyhood of injury and this gives you the opportunity to train more and safer.
While sparring to get ready for a competition keep the contact levels low. You don't have to practice at 100% to develop sharp your sparring skills. In fact, doing so is often self-defeating. You want to be able to assess your strengths and weaknesses in sparring while refining the areas you excel and enhancing (or avoiding) that are underdeveloped. It is very tough to do this when you are training with excess contact or intensity and such heavy training should be limited. However, limited does NOT mean never. You will need to train hard and with high intensity at some point in order to get used to such an approach which will often come into play in a tournament scenario. So, as a rule, limit the tough sparring sessions to 10% of your training time.
Spar according to the rules of the tournament you wish to enter. This way, you will be able to work the tournament rules to your advantage when you compete. Also, wear the same apparel in training as you would in the tournament. If you train in mixed martial arts shorts and Karate shoes then you are in a tournament that requires a uniform and doesn't allow shoes, you will feel very off when the competition arrives. Always pick your sparring partners wisely. You want someone who is safe, controlled, and non-competitive but still knows how to push you to improve. Aggressive sparring partners who are overly competitive should be avoided at all costs!
Need help remembering the name of this martial arts/karate move?
Okay so the move is like a recovery move, when you're on the ground, you put your hands on the ground in back of your head and push upwards so you land on your feet again, can't remember what the name of the move is, thanks.
in various martial arts that recovery move you mentioned woul be called a KIP/kick up.
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