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Hey Ryu, wassup?
Glad that you are getting in shape again, right now I'm struggling with scrapper's workouts and a no carbs-diet; this summer I really eated alot...
Our masks are made by a company called "Sphinx", they make the gloves used in K-1, really good products at a very low prices, not high-quality as twins or fairtex, but better prices. The masks are boxing helmets with alot more padding and padding on top of the head, with a removable steel cage on front; they sell here for 30 us$. We do use also a metal cup and sphinx vale tudo gloves that are harbingers with another company name stiched on them.
We do use our sparring as a test laboratory to study fighting in controlled conditions, last friday we did a series of bouts of only "leg kicks, jabs and crosses" sparring; after a few rounds, bad habits start immediately forming: dropping the front hand to increase the power, and staying on the strikes for too much time. Sometimes we don't realize how technique is influenced by the rules of the game. When we added takedowns to the bouts, the kicks almost disappeared; it was only boxing and takedowns. When finally, at the end of evening we sparred NHB, evrything disappeared, it was only cautious circling, maybe some quick hook and then clinch, maybe knees and GROUND...
Also, do yourself a favor and when sparring, wear some form of shinpdas; I've had a leg kick blocked by a knee destruction and almost cracked the bone; I now have a large bump and alot of hurting. Damn, I tought that only TKD kicks were useless...
Glad that you are getting in shape again, right now I'm struggling with scrapper's workouts and a no carbs-diet; this summer I really eated alot...
Our masks are made by a company called "Sphinx", they make the gloves used in K-1, really good products at a very low prices, not high-quality as twins or fairtex, but better prices. The masks are boxing helmets with alot more padding and padding on top of the head, with a removable steel cage on front; they sell here for 30 us$. We do use also a metal cup and sphinx vale tudo gloves that are harbingers with another company name stiched on them.
We do use our sparring as a test laboratory to study fighting in controlled conditions, last friday we did a series of bouts of only "leg kicks, jabs and crosses" sparring; after a few rounds, bad habits start immediately forming: dropping the front hand to increase the power, and staying on the strikes for too much time. Sometimes we don't realize how technique is influenced by the rules of the game. When we added takedowns to the bouts, the kicks almost disappeared; it was only boxing and takedowns. When finally, at the end of evening we sparred NHB, evrything disappeared, it was only cautious circling, maybe some quick hook and then clinch, maybe knees and GROUND...
Also, do yourself a favor and when sparring, wear some form of shinpdas; I've had a leg kick blocked by a knee destruction and almost cracked the bone; I now have a large bump and alot of hurting. Damn, I tought that only TKD kicks were useless...
Doing this really taught me how different freestyle full power sparring was from traditional Gung fu sparring and it shocked me to learn that a lot of my techniques weren't as easy to pull off as I thought they were. But it also taught which parts of my Gung fu were extremely effective so I stuck it out and kept at it. Fast forward towards the later part of high school...I entered a full contact Gung fu tournament and got soundly thrashed. These were my first experiences in full contact sparring. Fast forward to now after I've been doing JKD and Shooto for awhile...the majority of my full contact sparring comes from Shooto training. We have different progressions of full contact sparring. Sometimes it is strictly kickboxing versus strictly takedowns and we'll also do all out striking versus striking. Whenever it starts getting closer to tournament time then we'll do some full out freestyle sparring (according to amateur Shooto rules). I think this type of stuff is very important. There is a world of difference between hitting pads or sparring half contact and sparring ballz out. Personally, i don't think its very healthy to do this all the time because then people would just be getting messed up way too often. But once you've trained and conditioned a certain technique well enough, there has to be a period of time when you test it out for real. Then you learn from that experience, train some more and after awhile test yourself again.
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