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Martial Arts Topics / how long to "spar"
« on: November 09, 2004, 08:51:38 AM »
A couple of times a month, I play with a group of guys that have no stick training but have some emptyhand and very little full speed sparring.  I also "sparred" a bunch of kids with Actionflex.

Most people don't need to much training on how or where to hit.  There are only so many ways to swing a stick at someone.  I agree that people gravitate to a caveman and go to a back stance.  I don't see newbies checking naturally.  What I find is they use their off hand as a shield to take the hit.  I also find they bring the strikes in from one side (they only swing 1's and 3's).

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Martial Arts Topics / how long to "spar"
« on: November 08, 2004, 01:54:59 PM »
Where I do sticks, we take guys who are there for the first time and pad them up, put a stick in their hand, and yell go.

As for a Gathering ... IMHO you need some stick training.  By my second Gathering, I had sparred 2 to 3 times a week for about 8 months.  It made a huge difference in my mental state over my first Gathering.

If you want to fight in a Gathering, you should watch one and then go home and train with those images in your mind.

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Martial Arts Topics / Dance Card for the Gathering
« on: November 04, 2004, 02:54:22 PM »
The one thing I hate about Gatherings is finding a fight that day.  In the two Gatherings I have been at, I only lined-up one fight ahead of time, after that I just walked up to a group of fighters and announced I wanted to fight someone.  That worked OK, but I liked having a fight set before the day of the Gathering.

The problem with setting-up fights before the Gathering is that I still don't know most of you.  So I thought I would attempt this internet version of walking up to a group of fighters and asking for a fight.

If anyone accepts my invitation/challenge/offer, it is tenative.  Either of us can back out for any reason - got hurt, over matched, done fighting, don't want to fight, whatever.

I'll give the same infomation you would have if I walked up to you at the Gathering - my real name is Corey Davis, I am about 6' and 300lbs.

I want to line-up at least seven fights.

Corey Davis
corey.davis@ccpoa.org

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