That develop quickly! I'm still only a yellow belt in Goju Ryu but I have begun sparring more in class now. Our sparring is pretty good for what I have seen in karate classes, no point fighting, we put on headgear, mouthguards, boxing gloves, and shin and instep pads then spar with basically what amounts to kickboxing rules (some of the higher belts spar with muay thai rules, or muay thai + takedowns/sweeps), so basically most of us just kick and punch.
I've noticed a couple things, a spinning backfist seems like a very useless maneuver. I think because I'm a yellow belt the brown belt I was sparring yesterday thought it would be good to practice spinning backfist on me, but it really is a telegraphed move, and its really easy to just jab or cross the guy swinging at you in the back of the head. What was Sonnen thinking...
Superman punch seems cool though, I tried it out after I had pretty much extinguished my Goju arsenal (I probably did it wrong I copied it straight out of UFC) but it landed once and I actually didn't get countered which was a change. This seems like a bad habit though, copying moves off of TV, so I'll do it less, it is fun to try out though.
Questions of Note:
Higher belts seem to check or deflect leg kicks instinctively even if I set them up with jabs. Am I maybe doing something wrong like looking at feet or is that to be expected? And if so how do you ever get use out of leg kick?
Last question though is putting power into your strikes, we spar hard enough to feel the oomph, I got the wind knocked out of me by a jab and had my jaw knocked hard. But I find I just throw arm punches when I am sparring, bad form? I am consciously trying to lower power, but I assume I should stress form over speed in shots. agree disagree
I've noticed a couple things, a spinning backfist seems like a very useless maneuver. I think because I'm a yellow belt the brown belt I was sparring yesterday thought it would be good to practice spinning backfist on me, but it really is a telegraphed move, and its really easy to just jab or cross the guy swinging at you in the back of the head. What was Sonnen thinking...
Superman punch seems cool though, I tried it out after I had pretty much extinguished my Goju arsenal (I probably did it wrong I copied it straight out of UFC) but it landed once and I actually didn't get countered which was a change. This seems like a bad habit though, copying moves off of TV, so I'll do it less, it is fun to try out though.
Questions of Note:
Higher belts seem to check or deflect leg kicks instinctively even if I set them up with jabs. Am I maybe doing something wrong like looking at feet or is that to be expected? And if so how do you ever get use out of leg kick?
Last question though is putting power into your strikes, we spar hard enough to feel the oomph, I got the wind knocked out of me by a jab and had my jaw knocked hard. But I find I just throw arm punches when I am sparring, bad form? I am consciously trying to lower power, but I assume I should stress form over speed in shots. agree disagree
