FearlessFreep
Senior Master
This week I sparred someone new. I sparred a 15 yo female green belt. Quite a difference from the two taller, older men I'd been sparring mostly recently.
She didn't initiate attacks much, so a lot of the evasion/counter strikes I'd been working on weren't much use. I think, or fear, though that it was partially because I was a new partner and she might've been intimidated because I'm larger than her.
The cool part, from a learning experience, was she was much better at evading my attacks. This meant I had to work a lot more on step-ins, hop-tos,etc... Footwork designed to bring me in closer so that my actual attack landed where she had evaded to, not where she was when I started. It was pretty challenging and educational to work on a new set of attack moves then I'd had much chance to practice. A couple of times I even got her off-gaurd by playing off her tendancy to evade back and counter strike forward; I'd fake an attack forward, back up to get her to come forward, but then strike as she had herself coming forward.
All in all, much different to spar someone smaller/younger with quicker foot work than I was used to. Very instructional
She didn't initiate attacks much, so a lot of the evasion/counter strikes I'd been working on weren't much use. I think, or fear, though that it was partially because I was a new partner and she might've been intimidated because I'm larger than her.
The cool part, from a learning experience, was she was much better at evading my attacks. This meant I had to work a lot more on step-ins, hop-tos,etc... Footwork designed to bring me in closer so that my actual attack landed where she had evaded to, not where she was when I started. It was pretty challenging and educational to work on a new set of attack moves then I'd had much chance to practice. A couple of times I even got her off-gaurd by playing off her tendancy to evade back and counter strike forward; I'd fake an attack forward, back up to get her to come forward, but then strike as she had herself coming forward.
All in all, much different to spar someone smaller/younger with quicker foot work than I was used to. Very instructional