Freezing Up

[Guest]

On the contrary, you MUST think. If you don't think, and only react, then you will only be doing the instinctual thing; which is usually the wrong thing. People whom can make 'just react' work are people whom have done the drills and done the practice to make the techniques second nature. It will come to you as long as you keep practicing.

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Tell your partner you only want to try some things and have a turn each doing different techniques rather than doing free sparring, and then build up with defending against and then countering the new techniques and eventually use it in free-sparring.