Sparring stlye in your dojo?

[SenseiMike]

Just trying to kill time and let this coffee kick in, but I was curious, how do you guys fight?

What's the contact like? what are the rules? how much bunkai do you use as opposed to just "kickboxing"?

At my dojo we incorporate a lot of kata moves into kumite, particulary (sp?) the grappling aspect of it, It usually brakes up if someone hits the ground. Contact is light, light to meium with pads on. only the eyes, front area of the throat, and groin are off limits. other than that it's pretty much fair game. I'd say on a regular day, we work on bunkai for 45 minutes, then spar for the last 30.

[SenseiMike]

sweet, apparently this post earned me a yellow belt

[Bloke]

We use Clicker rules which are similar to Wuko or nihon shobu except direct punches to teh face are not allowed and the fight is not stopped for each point. They are counted by the referees using clickers and the winner announced at the end. Thats a very simple explanantion of those rules - there is more depth to them than that.

Most often though we will spar knockdown rules - punches and elbows are allowed to the body and arms and kicks are allowed to the legs body and head. We usually go 20% in the first week of training and build up to 80-100.

Osu!

[theapprentice124]

just move block, counter, and keep going lol

[Jay]

dont get hit lol

[isshinryu5toforever]

non-stop full contact. The only area that's off-limits is the groin. We encourage people to stay away from full contact to the leg. It does occassionally end up on the ground. When it goes to the ground someone has to tap out. Interesting way to do things.

[y2_sub]

Most often though we will spar knockdown rules - punches and elbows are allowed to the body and arms and kicks are allowed to the legs body and head. We usually go 20% in the first week of training and build up to 80-100.

Same ,and sometimes we allow (padded) hands contact to the head , sometimes we allow grappling and groundfighting .

[A. Orstrom]

We use kyokushinkai knockdown rules.

Padded legs are encouraged, groin and teeth protectors optional.

All kicks above the knee are allowed with the exception of the groin and neck. All punches/strikes (including elbows etc.) are allowed to the torso. No punches/strikes to the head, no contact whatsoever to the back/spine.

The pace is set by the lowest ranked or smallest person so no one gets more than they bargained for, but even in the lower ranks we don't usually pull our punches.

[jnpnshr411]

"non-stop full contact. The only area that's off-limits is the groin. We encourage people to stay away from full contact to the leg. It does occassionally end up on the ground. When it goes to the ground someone has to tap out. Interesting way to do things."

I tried that One time its real fun

[pers]

we have diferrent typse of sparring ,dojo kumit or randoori includes all techniques and targets ,take downs grapples and basically is a rehersal of street fight with control. but to bulid up to randoori which is the most advance form ,lots of semi-free one attack is done where the attacker declares the technique and attack in his own time with speed and power and aims to make contact ,the defender can evade or block and then counter with control .there are other variations like the initial attacker would then evade or block the counter and counter himself ,this would greatly improve ones reflexes.

in karate learning to sparr is learned in stages and grdually bulid up to randoori type.