You know - to be honest I thought I was good enough that this didn't apply to me. My kickboxing trainer said to me "we'll pull you out of point fighting a couple months prior to your fight, cause I don't want you pulling technique"...after much pleading he agreed to allow me to spar defense only, which I have been doing for about a month. So yesterday I entered my first point fighting tournament since starting all the full contact stuff and guess what - all defense. It was like I was stuck to the floor. I could see the openings plain as day but it was like I could not for the life of me get into motion and stick it. So what's my point? I think I am learning for myself that the light contact stuff does not necessarily convert easily to full contact techniques even though I thought it would. It's not just a matter of moving target depth. Not for me, anyways. I hope this doesn't start a flame war - just my experience after working in both realms for a few months now.
see it's better to train to pulverize your opponent rather than a tit for tat dance around the room in some pads with a friend or classmate. seriously... the next time you fight or whatever, try the no-mind concept of having no thoughts and no opponent. it won't hurt to give it a shot(unless of course you take a shot) hahaha... joke.
“The way you practice is the way you fight” My Sifu drilled this in our skulls time and time again and it really couldn’t be truer. For a small while, I used to shadow box by myself (during my ‘self-discovery’ period). Eventually during a few “meeting of hands”, I found myself lacking in specific areas as I didn’t practice enough with a partner. I learned from that experience, that you couldn’t single yourself out and expect to do well in every area, especially during live combat of any sort (beyond light hand-playing, of course). “The way you practice is the way you fight” Again, couldn’t be more true and I learned it from personal experience. Now I try as much as possible to train against various exponents. To be fair, maybe I don’t do it as much as I should (possibly because I don’t find too many MA’ists out there), but one has to keep this in mind as much as possible.