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Yea I am referring to said "stop when points are scored" fighting. What's your opinion of that?

It seems that there's a very common perception of semi-contact tournaments that I personally find very upsetting. It is viewed as a few "tiers" lower than your typical MMA or Boxing match. I've seen that most think of it as a match where every limb imaginable is padded with protection gear, and a whistle is blown and everyone pauses whenever someone 'barely' touches the other. I understand that there's "haters" for every sport (please don't turn this into a discussion over the term "sport," note that I'm referring to tournaments), same as you can always find someone who mocks soccer by calling it a bunch of skinny guys kicking around a leather ball filled with air. What's your take on this? Obviously semi-contact isn't just a run down 'family-version' of full contact, but still, how do you feel about this?

Does this happen to anyone else whensparring? It happens to me occasionally and it hurts the middle joint which takes quite some time to heal. Do you believe it mostly happens when you block with your fingers apart or when you're keeping distance with your front hand and you don't notice that your fingers aren't adjacent? I haven't seen this happen to anyone else so I would love to know what's causing this for me.

This is very important to me; the tournament will be early in the morning so I'll be leaving a few hours before. I've been in situations where the wrong breakfast or the wrong time for breakfast gave me incredible stomach pains. How long before the second I'm in the ring should I have my breakfast and what should I/should not have? Thank you

It is a single element in their warmups. The rest is fine. It doesn't cause any injuries but fixing it would benefit them a lot.

I don't want to get into the specifics of this "major flow" to prevent this thread from going off-topic. Let us assume however that it's perfectly correct. This "flaw" is just an element of our warm-ups that needs to be changed. We warm up and stretch on our own prior to the actual class but the team needs to hear it from the instructor if I ever want to get them to change their ways, for the reason I stated in my original post ("wannabe-know-it-all")

of a major flaw in our typical warm-up/stretching routine? It's more for the sake of team as I've been keeping this to myself and doing my own warm ups and stretching but I don't want to come off as wannabe-know-it-all. I've discovered this flaw after reading multiple articles on the subject. What is the best way to approach this?