Manny
Senior Master
I am from the old school and 44 years old, not as fast not as flexible as before, even in my younger days I relied in my powerful mass more than in the flamboyant techs, but now my sparring tends to me more static, more on the ground so no aerial techs are used by me, my kicking is not fancy just using the basic techs, roundhouse kicks,front kicks, side kicks and my prefered combo is roundhouse kick followed by a spining back kick sometimes instead of the back kick I use the spining hook kick, I rarely punch, only when my sparring parthner allows me to do it or when get inside a clinch. Yes, not all my techs score but I try to protect my head and if I see a gap then I launch a voley of kicks going towards my parthner.
As I wrote before, I am not the best damn guy, I know how to recive a blow and always try to guard my head/face, I am not the best strategic guy, I am very linear and I don't bob around like the WTF olimping sparring, I also don't use combos of two or three pitchaguis at once, as I wrote before I am more conected to the ground, sometimes my style of sparring does not resemble any TKD but more like japanese karate.
I don't like to use the hogu, simply I dislike it, it does not feel confortable on me, yes I use shin/instep pads and forearm pads because I use a lot my forearms to block and guard me.
And you, how do you sparr?
Manny
As I wrote before, I am not the best damn guy, I know how to recive a blow and always try to guard my head/face, I am not the best strategic guy, I am very linear and I don't bob around like the WTF olimping sparring, I also don't use combos of two or three pitchaguis at once, as I wrote before I am more conected to the ground, sometimes my style of sparring does not resemble any TKD but more like japanese karate.
I don't like to use the hogu, simply I dislike it, it does not feel confortable on me, yes I use shin/instep pads and forearm pads because I use a lot my forearms to block and guard me.
And you, how do you sparr?
Manny