Handicaps

[skribs101]

What are some good ways to handicap yourself against those with far less experience than you. I've already tried the following and had success, so something else must be the answer:

• Close your eyes the whole round
• Don't use your hands

 

[Kung Fu Wang102]

What are some good ways to handicap yourself against those with far less experience than you.

狮子搏兔，亦用全力 A lion fights a rabbit with full strength too. - Do one's utmost even when dealing with a minor problem.

When fighting against someone who has far less experience than you, it just adds another winning into your fighting record (W/L -> W+1/L).

- First, you go to kindergarten to beat up all those kids.
- You then go to junior high to beat up all those boys.
- Finally, you go to senior high to beat up all those growing up.

You will then have developed some solid MA skill. The best starting place should be the kindergarten, those with far less experience than you.

If you have to fight Mike Tyson as your 1st fight, you may quite your MA training for the rest of your life.

 

[isshinryuronin]

What are some good ways to handicap yourself against those with far less experience than you.

These are the ones I have to most worry about! They have no control and are unpredictable in their reactions. You can also have the tendency to get a little careless. These dangers aside, the only reason to spar with someone far less experienced is to give them a learning experience.

You want to make it possible for them to learn. I'll give them openings to detect and take advantage of, sometimes letting them succeed. I also slow down a bit and avoid shutting them down completely. If they abuse my generosity or make a "dumb" mistake (I put dumb in quotes because they just don't know any better yet) they will pay a relatively gentle price - a lesson felt is a lesson learned.

 

[drop bear103]

I let them move me.

 

[Kung Fu Wang102]

the only reason to spar with someone far less experienced is to give them a learning experience.

My SC teacher would never let me to take him down. My long fist teacher would never let me to land a fist on him.

I believe students can also learn from failure too.

Every semester when my Kung Fu informal class starts, I will always have 50 students. During the first few classes, I will wrestle with some of them (and let my advance students to wrestle with the rest of them). After all the new students have been taken down by "knee seize". For the rest of the semester, every student will learn seriously in that technique because they know that technique work. During 1982, the Ohio State Univ. SC team came to Austin, Texas to compete in our annual SC tournament. All my UT students who won that tournament were by using "knee seize".

Before I start teaching my students the "rhino guard", I would ask them to throw 20 punches at me. I want my students to know the value of certain skill before they even start learning. The real testing result can help students to know why they need to learn something.

 

[skribs101]

I let them move me.

Are you built like the stereotypical brown belt?

 

[skribs101]

These dangers aside, the only reason to spar with someone far less experienced is to give them a learning experience.

There's one teenager who's recently started who has been talking quite a bit of crap to the upper belts about how he's going to beat them.

I know he's just messing around. But our philosophy at the gym is if your mouth writes the checks, we'll cash 'em.

 

[drop bear103]

Are you built like the stereotypical brown belt?

Yes I am fat.

 

[Wing Woo Gar37]

What are some good ways to handicap yourself against those with far less experience than you. I've already tried the following and had success, so something else must be the answer:

• Close your eyes the whole round
• Don't use your hands

I exclude body/head as targets for myself without telling them. I’m 55 years old, that is a handicap in and of itself. I never go full speed or full power on students. They can do that with each other if they want. I don’t have many younger students these days. The young bucks all want MMA, which is fine. It takes a lot of time and patience to train Wing Woo Gar.

 

[dunc]

I let them pass my guard and get to a good attacking position
Or I try things I'm terrible at