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Master of Blades
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I was just thinking, and I asked myself, how do you actually win a spar? In my opinion the only way to win a spar is to
A: Tap out
B: Give in
C: Fight until one CANNOT fight back
Realise tho, that I am no talking about competition spars! I know that most of those you get a set time and points are the only thing that count or whatever. But Im talking bout when you do competitive sparring?
For example, me and my TKD freind decided that we both did Martial Arts and that we both were pretty much top of the class in our own respective classes, so it would make sense to be sparring partners. Anyway to cut a long story short, he was fighting on TKD terms and I was just trying to make him tap in the most painful way possible. In the end I made him tap out BUT he said it wasnt fair because we hadnt decided what a win actually was! In the end me and my sparring friends all decided that it was to be tap out of nothing.
But what about you guys, what do you classify as a win when your sparring?
A: Tap out
B: Give in
C: Fight until one CANNOT fight back
Realise tho, that I am no talking about competition spars! I know that most of those you get a set time and points are the only thing that count or whatever. But Im talking bout when you do competitive sparring?
For example, me and my TKD freind decided that we both did Martial Arts and that we both were pretty much top of the class in our own respective classes, so it would make sense to be sparring partners. Anyway to cut a long story short, he was fighting on TKD terms and I was just trying to make him tap in the most painful way possible. In the end I made him tap out BUT he said it wasnt fair because we hadnt decided what a win actually was! In the end me and my sparring friends all decided that it was to be tap out of nothing.
But what about you guys, what do you classify as a win when your sparring?