techniques

[BlacKnight]

Does anyone know of any sparring techniques they would like to share? I've been giving this some hard thought and i'm stumped.

[thiaboxr2]

For any particular style or just sparring in general?

[Andrew Green]

Black Knight,

This is a mixed forum, so without specifying what you mean by "sparring" you might get answers that have nothing to do with what you are referring to as sparring :D

[Chazz]

Do you mean full contact, simi full, Point sparring, let us know what you are talkin about and im sure just about everyone will help.

[Andrew Green]

There's a lot more then 3 possibilities ;)

[BlacKnight]

i mean for point sparring in the style of go jo gyu

[BlacKnight]

oops i meant go-ju ryu

[Master J]

Dummy strikes followed up by good hard controled striked to opposite.

(By the way, do you pronounce the R in ryu)

[BlacKnight]

yeah you pronounce the "r" in ryu, it sounds more like roo when you say it though

[Saz]

There's a lot you could go into. My best advice is keep it basic, gyaku punches, mawashi geri's etc, and don't let them chase you down. Also, look for their weaknesses and exploit them. I've been doing this lately, and it does work well.

There's a thread on this somewhere, I'm sure.

[BlacKnight]

What do you mean "exploit their weaknesses"? explain.

[Hakko-Ryu]

i like faking a side kick or a back kick into a scissors leg/body takedown! works fine n dandy

[TKD]

I've got a few here if you're not looking to inflict pain or anything(basically tkd style).

First, for a good right off the bat point, the reverse turning kick(sporting style) is a killer, follow it up with another turning kick and you're basically guaranteed a point. Then you have the side kick, turning kick (same leg without dropping leg), backfist combo, works very nicely and is simple to do. Then you can go with the turning kick to 360 turning kick combo, when they see you go up for the 360 they can't tell what's gonna happen. That's a few of my favorites, then my absolute favorite counter attack technique is the fading away jumping reverse hook kick.

Great thread, I was thinking about posting something to the same effect myself.

[BlacKnight]

Thanks :) I started this thread because many of my friends in the dojo were asking questions like these all the time.

[BlacKnight]

I,ve taken many of your tips and given them some thought, what do you think about counters? I hear that instead of knowing a alrge amount of them it is better to know three or four that work well in any situation is this true?

[TKD]

In my opinion(I'm only a blue belt but have had alot of sparring experience) it's better to know as many counterattacks as possible. The reason being, if you only have three or four counterattacks you may not have one that will be effective in certain situations. Whereas, if you have 10 to 15 and even more counterattacks you will have a higher percentage chance that you will have an attack that will work in any given situation.

Most any kick can be done in a counterattacking manner, we practice kicks called fadeaway kicks,(don't know if you've heard of or done them) basically you take any given kick and make it a jumping technique. When you jump though(off of both feet at once) you move backwards and perform the technique. Those are really basic counters but they are highly effective. That alone should give you at least six counters. If you really feel spunky you can even turn some 360's into fadeaways. Then again you don't even have to be moving backward to counter, so you can basically use any kick as a counterattacking technique. The real trick is learning which attacks negate which attacks. Then you have to program yourself to automatically perform those techniques when you see a certain attack coming.

I figure I should stop now, got another case of verbal diarrhea:).

[BlacKnight]

Ok I see what your saying, its better to know many counterattacks. In Go-ju ryu I didn't have to worry about knowing too many of them because I had devised about five or so counters that would cover roughly most of the situations that I would come across.