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Most TMA schools don't train their techniques in application. They drill them in non-sparring environments and then when sparring comes or when the fight comes they abandon them. This is TMA's greatest sorrow. To train many years and without trying to actually use the techniques in free sparring. Then making the assumption that the punches in the drills are the same punches that are in sparring and in fights.This is what I think many non sparring or non competitive schools miss, and why their sparring sucks compared to competition geared schools.
Don't get me wrong. I'm o,k. with people just doing TMA for exercise or forms. But they should be honest with their training. I haven't done any sparring in about 4 or 5 years and I miss it.