Hitting Hard to Learn a Lesson

[arnisador]

Yes, full agreement. You need to take the lessons learned back into your next training session. You need to think about what techniques kept scoring--and prepare a response for them.

And, the experience of going full-out is good preparation for the real thing, if it should come.

 

[Andrew Green]

Just as an aside, has anyone noticed that many of the worst injuries seem to come from the "soft and fluffy" type of dojos?

Yup, cause people that train with contact learn to protect themselves and not do stupid things...

Real weapons sparring is dumb, well not dumb. It can be done with some armour, but not regullarly as it will leave many bruises and possibly breaks. The body can't take that regullarly.

PVC with a little padding wtill hurts, and can still leave some nasty bruises, but it is not likely to cause serious injury. But it will still give you enough "ouch" to not want it to happen again.

This is no different then sparring with gloves and mouth guards.

Some people do spar without gloves, but usually that means the face is off limits for punching...

So which gives worse habits? Hitting full out with softened hands/weapons? Or hitting moderetly and avoiding the main targets with non-softened weapons?