I am confident that the warriors of old sparred each day. They had to in order to develop fighting skills that worked in battle. The technique is just part of it. You can learn to swing a baseball bat with good technique in ten minutes. That doesn't mean that you can go into a game and be an effective hitter. If you aren't sparring, you aren't training the way the gung-fu fighters used to train, and you won't develop skills that work in a real situation. You will only have techniques, like swinging the bat, without any real practice. So in my opinion, if you want to be traditional, spar more. Aloha!
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"If you want to learn how to fight, you must practice fighting against someone who is fighting back!" Burton Richardson
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