Mixed Martial Arts Weekly
Avoid Critical Mistakes in Mma Sparring That May Keep You Out of Training for Weeks at a Time
As a result to the excessive quantity of contact that fighting competitors receive in the course of training and sparring, It is important that we exercise great concern to guarantee that we don’t hurt our fellow team members. You are your partner’s coach and your partner is your coach while you are training. Competitiveness is in our nature, but we should never let it come before the welfare and wellbeing of our team mates. In order to make the best of training and sparring, we need to meet all the safety precautions required in a contact sport.
Before you begin a martial art or contact sport, you must 1st ensure that you are physically healthy enough to participate. Protective equipment coupled with a protective training environment is a must. The kind of protective gear will differ from sport to sport or art to art. This is the bottom line- You should not get involve yourself if you do not have the proper gear. If you have been training extensively and capable enough to spar, all you need to have is the right equipment. Be certain all the mats (or flooring) are dry and the chosen sparring place is free from any clutter.
Obey the three C’s rule Manong Inosanto, while training:
1. Cooperative
2. Contested
3. Competition
Protecting your training partner is essential. If you injure or hurt your partner you will not have anyone to train with. In addition, chances are that observation by your peers will prompt them not to intend to spar with you because they worry about their safety.
Three things that you must utilize while training:
1. Proactive communication with your partner; let your partner know if they need to tone it down or if they can pick up the pace.
2. EGO-LESS training: everyone has an ego, you have to put it behind the door when you are sparring or training.
3. Use only your skeleton: prevent from muscling everything and utilize just your skeleton.
Sparring is important to assess ourselves and our training. Sparring is intended to super charge our:
A. Technical ability
B. Conditioning
C. Timing
Sparring is not aimed to tell who’s the strongest one in the academy! This doesn’t mean spar lightly the whole time or not at all. There is a time and place when you need to go 60% and a time when you need 80%.Controlled and light sparring can be a brilliant way to spike your learning curve. Light sparring allows you to work on the moves that you have not yet perfected. Whenever you tested something new and it got slam down at once, you would always go back to things you’re proficient at. This would severely stunt the development of your learning.
If you realize that you are sparring or training with somebody who’s not as skillful as you, one way for your skills to get better is to take the area or position that needs much improvement and you let your partner attack you from that area. Therefore, you can both benefit from the sparring, since you have focused purely on an area of improvement. This will as well avoid the self-esteem of your less-skilled or less-experienced partner from being reduced due to domination on the mat.
There are two things that you have complete command over and those two things are your attitude and your effort; When you set your most excellent effort and attitude before you and those close to you will be rewarded with joy filled, learning surroundings.
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