Do you think sparring is part of learning good self defence?

[Liver Punch]

We have a box full of just about ever "Black Belt" Magazine, and a host of others from the entire 1980's and there seems to be a big stretch in there where this was a super-hot topic of debate. If you want to prepare for any situation, regardless of what your individual art is or what that particular situation is - you have to simulate it in as real of a fashion as possible.