Coed sparring? Some questions for you . . .

[Rokusho_Tao]

1. Does your dojang have coed sparring? Or do you segregate by sex?

2. Which do you prefer?

3. Are there advantages to women fighting men? To men fighting women? To fighting with someone basically your own size and strength?

4. Is your dojang ITF or WTF? What does sparring look like in class?

My answers:

1. Coed sparring.

2. I prefer when I fight women, or at least people basically my size.

3. I think it's useful to fight people of different sizes, but I don't like ALWAYS having to fight people who are way bigger than I am (often happens in class). I like to be more evenly matched because I feel like I can just practice the techniques without "stretching" to reach.

4. Our dojang is ITF, so sparring is "light to no contact" We use mitts, legpads, and helments (sometimes) but no hogu. Sparring in class is usually done in long lines, randomly mixed men, women, children, with little supervision.

1.Sometimes we coed spar, sometimes, like in a tournament, it is male vs. male... Female vs. Female

2. I prefer to fight both male and female fighters. The males show much more power in thier hits, while females show more speed and flexiblity.

3. See number 2.

4. I am in the Youn Wha Ryu federation.