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Originally Posted by Thai Bri
Both of them could have done far better without any training whatsoever. All they would have needed would have been aggression and forward drive.
This kind of "sparring" is not only irrelevant to preparation for real fights, it is actually harmful. Its like training to swim the English Channel by lying belly down on a chair and wiggling your limbs about a bit.
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I'm not sure I agree with you there.
I think light sparring is good to start with. You need to learn footwork and distance at first, not just come in all agressive and swinging. You will not learn to use proper techniques if you do that.
I think the key to everything is to progress, start slow/basic/isolated and then progress from there.
However, there you could for instance put on of the with his back against the wall, so he can't back up more, to force him to deal with the threat, and defend himself... there are tons of drills that will improve some aspect of the sparring that waits ahead.
Sure, you are talking about real fight, I'm talking about just harder sparring, so there's a difference there.
Let's keep this dialogue going, it's interesting.