Originally Posted by Red Rum

Mike Brewer -'Why the hell would you spar in ways that are not relevant? I just don't get a lot of what you're saying. I have never been anything but an advocate of making sparring model reality. If reality happens at close range, then you can bet your ass close range is what you'll be "encouraged" to work. If the opponent is no good at it, he has precisely two choices: Get better or lose. Are you saying that when you go to these other schools (and by your own words "destroy" and "decimate" those martial artists of other styles) you willingly throw your own system out the window and just do what they "encourage" you to do? '


Yes. I spar in the way that that particular system asks me too.
For example, I have just started karate. It would be easy to outbox them or come in with close quarter techniques, but they train in a certain way and I respect that

Yet they hit hard and do the ‘heavy sparring’ that Grixti is looking for. Doesn’t mean it works or is relevant.

The MT gym I went to did not want me to spar up close and kept breaking us up. The same happened in boxing. I have trained MT for a while and I know that they are devastating close range. Yet a lot of their sparring work comes at distance.

Originally Posted by Tom Yum

Ghost, you are like rogue from x-men but with a willy.
*drools*