Martial arts sparring tips 14 Articles

by Jules Willis

Martial Arts Sparring Tips There are many ways to be prepared for sparring. Some of them are technical in nature and some are psychological. In the psychological category, underestimating the opponent is extremely dan...read more

by Scott Blackburn

Sparring, in my opinion, is the best way to improve every aspect of your martial arts game. Whether it be in ju-jitsu, tae kwon do, boxing, or any other fighting art, sparring is extremely beneficial. First and foremost yo...read more

by Michael Gabel

Sparring is anything but predictable, anyone who claims to be able to predict some ones movement is simply lying. There are however; indicators, little things that your oponent does that give you a clue as to what they ar...read more

by John Lazuras Zennelli

Martial arts, is one name for when a person defends their life, from an attacker of hostile degree. Psychologically, a person, who is in the event of a martial arts session, is someone who, when in actual combat, must emul...read more

by Andrew Von Dinklage

There are hundreds of sparring techniques and thousands of variations of them but the best tip I know of, for sparring, is: learn your basics. Basics come before techniques or combinations or tactics. Basics are the founda...read more

by Shasta Daisy McCarty

There are four basics to sparring that apply to most stand up fighting arts. My notes below are based on seven years of training in American Kenpo concurrently with other styles. The first and most foundational aspect o...read more

by Jerome Smith

I have been sparring in different types of martial arts for the last 20yrs.From tae kwon do to kung fu to wrestling to thai fighting and kick boxing to MMA. How much experience do you have in martial arts? This question ...read more

by Joey Benedict

The basic rule is simple: Do one technique, and do it right. One might think that this would give the opponent an advantage because he or she would know what technique you're about to execute. But an experiment that was pe...read more

by Marling Mcreynolds

SPARRING VS FIGHTING As a small child I was picked on for being the only girl in the neighborhood. My father gave me boxing lessons and my big brother taught me other types of fighting. The result was that I spent nea...read more

by Jamie Seabrook

How to Spar an Aggressive Opponent You know the type. I am discussing those people in sparring who are constantly trying to take your head off and that are almost always on the attack. Here is what NOT to do: what most...read more

by C. Ryus

My Bag of Tricks: Fudo Uchi Arguably the most important weapon in my bag of tricks is the almighty Fudo Uchi, the Immovable Strike. Pretty self explanatory, really, with a name like that. Solid, impenetrable, painful....read more

by Thomas A. Polymath

I've sparred in class for many years so I DO have a lot of pointers. Your greatest training tool is a mirror. Practice your moves and place your fists where they should be and if it looks good to you then its most likely t...read more

by Sarah Arnette

Sparring is the combination of a student's speed, skills, strength, agility, and ability to think quickly and pitting it against another student in the same level of skills in a controlled contest. It is through sparring ...read more

by Eric Aleman

Here are the basic rules- keep your hands up always watch an amateur opponent's eyes-almost always, there is a movement of the eyes that gives away exactly how they are going to try to hit you or where they will move...read more