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How to Fill Your Shelves with Sparring Trophies

It would be great to have all those great looking tournament plaques you see on display at your at your local school or on your own shelves? Now you can!. Just pick the number of medals 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 situational experience 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 everything you can from your sparring, they are:

Let’s address something important from 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.

Also, if you are not an upper belt, 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 you DO NOT spar without the proper sparring gear on. Yes, you see professional fighters training without such equipment all the time. They are also professionals and they have the experience to handle such training. 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. This will reduce the chances of injury and allow you to train extensively and safely.

When you are sparring to get ready for a competition remember to keep physical 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 while sparring while refining the areas you excel and enhancing (or avoiding) that are underdeveloped. When sparring is being done to intense it is hard to keep your working on the fundamentals of sparring. So, high intensity should be held to a minimum. However, limited does NOT mean never. You will need to produce the same level of intensity in your training as you will have in a live tournament setting. An estimate is to do full intensity sparring about 10% of your training.

Spar according to the rules of the tournament you wish to enter. In this way you will have the tournament rules work in your advanatage as opposed to working against you. It is critical that you wear the same sparring apparel while training that you will wear when in a tournament. If you train in mixed martial arts shorts and shoes for martial arts then you are in a tournament that requires a uniform and doesn’t allow shoes, you will feel very off when the tournament arrives. It is important to pick a sparring partner who can control their kicks and punches. You want someone who is safe, controlled, and non-competitive but still knows how to push you to improve. Be sure to avoid sparring partners who are extremely competitive or they feel like they have to something to prove to you!

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