Need Help: Dojo Sparring Practices

[Hawkmoon]

To condition or not to condition...Whose choice IS that??

To my way of thinking that depends as much on the student as the nature of the ryu and art that is taught!

If what is taught and how it is taught is not to your taste then why stay?

Makes no sense, as was said once before all you are doing at times like that is making a bad situation worse.

If you have done research on MA and this ryu and that ryu and you have spent time watching and maybe even had a go at this one or that one, to then walk into a 'fight club and .....

or

walk into a none contact club and 'have an accident' (they do happen after all no matter what style you do!)

If one or the other is not for you, why stay?

move on find another test it ....

The people that walk in to my dojo, all full of beans (grateful that they turned up and are going to give it a try) and never come back.....

Yet in other dojos I have work in the people that come in have ago and return as well as vanish never to been seen again....for all of my tolerance and the respect I have come to have for the other styles.....

one truth stands out for me........people battles with there pain memory!

To me the fix for this means 'conditioning' to break that memory, and well put simple many people really have no desire to push that barrier.

I'm defiantly ion the camp that says you must do that!

Punch a ball of rope/makiwara board, semi contact fights with knockdown/full contact bouts from time to time to put things into practice and perspective.

its not power when you hit this or that board its the repetition.

its not power when you hit your sparring partner, its technique.

Its not power when you are hit, its how you manage the pain of the impact.

If you do not hit or you are not hit....put simply its gonna hurt!