Sparing

Sparing

Sparing should be realistic as possible while still being safe, if you go to a school where there is no contact fighting or the students only fight the Sensei not each other you may be taking a fitness class that does karate moves at some point techniques need to be pressure tested in a control environment. Also it’s 2022 if your sparing doesn’t not include takedown and ground fighting you may be at a disadvantage to judo, wresting and all grappling stylists.

If your teacher says we Learn to get not taken down and never teaches what to do on the ground but says things like bite and eye poke you may not be getting the full picture of a real fight 70% of all street fight go to the ground at some point so just planning to just stand up and keep kicking is a very naive plan.

At OSKA students learn to fight at all levels and feel confident standing, throwing and grappling !