We used to do a lot of variations of sparring. The student feedback over the years was positive, most said it helped them a great deal. Said it was enjoyable, too.
We did sport sparring (points) kickboxing, boxing, standup into grappling, we did what we called the subtraction game, we sparred under a strobe light (really trippy, difficult to judge distance, difficult to quickly identify a blitz.) We sparred under a black light - one student in a black gi, one in a white. Black gi had a ball, white gi usually got smoked. We played bull in the ring.
It was all good, lot of fun, too.
We did sport sparring (points) kickboxing, boxing, standup into grappling, we did what we called the subtraction game, we sparred under a strobe light (really trippy, difficult to judge distance, difficult to quickly identify a blitz.) We sparred under a black light - one student in a black gi, one in a white. Black gi had a ball, white gi usually got smoked. We played bull in the ring.
It was all good, lot of fun, too.