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I am curious: How many people that frequent this forum practice live sparring on the ground with strikes, either open palm slaps or gloved punches? If you do, what is the mindset of these sessions? Do you go 100% and try to really hit your partner or light?
If you want to be toothless and get brain damage, go nuts and do it at 100%. Bas Rutten totally defends hard training so I'm not saying to be an ass, as it's a valid method of training.
Personally, I just go 30% and then react to the punches as if they were hard. Even though I can eat a 30% punch in my guard I will react like it's 100% to gain the benefits of the defensive training. Additionally, if you rely on rubber guard for your offense, you just don't get hit that much.
Most of the time just light punches. However the guys that are training for a fight throw harder prolly at 70 percent.
Definitely changes the game. Everything is much more urgent and important. On the bottom my objective is the practically the same(without elbows). Top game has so many more options with punches, but im still hunting for go-gos, spiderweb and truck.
Don't think you need to go 100% on the punches. Just light taps to let the other guy know that he's open for that split second. I think rolling with punches is great for building a tighter defense.
I usually establish a punch intensity that I am comfortable with ahead of time with the partner and go from there, depending on my mood and energy levels its usually 10%-70%. I actually am much less urgent once im set-up somewhere (RG, guard, mount) because the other person will be out of energy pretty quickly. About 3 minutes tops usually. I do believe in actually making contact though, some people like to throw off-center punches, I think this screws up the realistic punch angles.
Does anyone find that too much non-punching sparring makes different reflexes? I recently was sparring with someone with punches and they established a decent base, I found myself going for an open guard sweep instead of focusing on the upcoming GNP. Lesson learned but I was a little alarmed.
I started in luta livre and we pretty much went close to 100%, especially during takedown practice, one guy would throw strikes and try to avoid the TD and the other would attempt to get him down. Instructor was a big proponent of tough training. He was a beast though and now I'm at 10th P, so generally 100% on strikes isn't really fun for practice.
Since you shouldnt even punch 100% in a fight (100% is for finishing/taking a guy off queer street to the finish), sparring its dangerous. They should be full speed, but 50-70% contact.
i fight my friends then let them throw punches just to see how it is to beat someone with jujitsu in a street fight.
^^^i don't always win thou
The urgency I was referring to is to get to a safe clinch and fast. And when someone is trying to punch me my objective is to negate all punches throughout the 10p guards as it teaches.Moving around a clinch forcing him to defend his base or get toppled. Not to mention straight breakin his ass down in rg.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lsloewen
I got my ass kicked in bottom half for a min. Then i learned the whole theory bout the 5.0 and life is better for now.
Damn I love this game.
i find facemasks on headgear solves that problem. when we train, sometimes we spar standup only, bjj/wrestling, and then everything full contact. i had my partner in full mount landing punches and elbows at around 75% and he felt fine, other than getting rocked a bit. i dont encourage facemasks all the time, cuz theres no pain and it tends to build a false sense of security. karatesupply.com is where i got mine, but therees other sites out there. now often i spar just with mma rules, using mma gloves, and its great. i can implement every aspect (standup, clinch with knees and elbows, takedowns, gnp and subs) in my training in one spar session.