Sparring as therapy

[mr_obvious]

Good stuff, from time-to-time. On occasion, I have friends over to full-contact spar. The informal setting and having none of the time constraints of a "class," we can practice what I call "rewind sparring." Basically whenever someone executes a particularly good strike, sweep, throw, block, etc. in response to what the other is doing -- we stop, go back and examine it. What made the technique work, what went wrong for the losing end -- kinda like a post-mortem form of Bunkai.

[Tzu-Logic]

Good stuff, from time-to-time. On occasion, I have friends over to full-contact spar. The informal setting and having none of the time constraints of a "class," we can practice what I call "rewind sparring." Basically whenever someone executes a particularly good strike, sweep, throw, block, etc. in response to what the other is doing -- we stop, go back and examine it. What made the technique work, what went wrong for the losing end -- kinda like a post-mortem form of Bunkai.

Whenever i spar with a black belt at my school they always do that with me... 95% percent of the time i learn from them... but there's that 5% where they learn something new from sparring me... Those times make it all worthwhile

[bushido_man96]

Good stuff, from time-to-time. On occasion, I have friends over to full-contact spar. The informal setting and having none of the time constraints of a "class," we can practice what I call "rewind sparring." Basically whenever someone executes a particularly good strike, sweep, throw, block, etc. in response to what the other is doing -- we stop, go back and examine it. What made the technique work, what went wrong for the losing end -- kinda like a post-mortem form of Bunkai.

I like that. Taking the time to evaluate why something worked the way it did is a great idea for sparring.

[KumitePanda]

i love to spar. but we (lower grades) can only do basic controlled sparring. sometimes sensei will make an exception with me if im partnered with my dad coz he's old and slow *hehehehe*