Does non-contact point sparring actually decrease your ability to
defend yourself in a real situation?
After all, you're pulling punches, avoiding eye gouges, bone
breaking, wrist locks and the like. How can you learn to defend
yourself when you're restricting your options?
And what if the fight ends up on the ground? All your skills at
dancing around in a padded helmet isn't going to help you get out of
a brutal rear mount arm crank!
Or Is It...?
If you take a good, objective look at it...
Sparring May Be The Most Perfect Martial Arts Exercise Ever
I won't lie to you'I'm in favor of sparring. I think there are no
other exercises in Martial Arts that can accomplish as much in as
little time as good sparring practice.
Here's why...
(And bear in mind, I had to keep this article short to prevent it
from turning into a book-length discourse!)
What If You Could Combine All Your Training Needs Into One Easy
Exercise?
Think I'm exaggerating? Sparring practice improves a wide variety of
essential Martial Arts requirements all at once....

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