Some dude asks you to go sparring and he says to just go light, then all of a sudden he goes 100% at you? Happened today and I'll admit it surprised me and never got into a rhythm coz of that.
Yeah, that's lame. But it happens all the time. I suppose it's good prep for your upcoming fight. If your opponent is anything like all other first timers I've seen he's going to come out swinging like a crazy person.
Yep, I ****ing hate that. If I'm better than him I warn twice and then I retaliate. If he's better I'm simply in deep ****.
Thats not probs mate, every time he starts going 100% take a step back whilst jabbing the immediately follow up with a hard straight right to the solar plexes, he will be coming straight for you and it will ****ing hurt them. Another thing i do is if they come at you 100% just straight right (doesnt matter if you land or not or how hard) and put a ****ing hard left hook to the body. This achieves two things. 1) You will hurt him and immediately initiate that if he goes hard, you will too, and in most cases they wont do it again if you hurt them 2) It makes them think that you can dominate them if you wanted to and they think better of it. But first before any of you guys actually use this for gods sake practise first. Get your trainer with the pads to randomly go hard at u and you practise your counter body combos. Practise is the key and the body is the lock, they go hand in hand.
Ive always hated it when the person better than you says they will go easy and work with you, not pound you into the ground, then go and take your head off. That happend to me the first two times I sparred. I went in against someone who was boxing for 3 years, I was boxing for 6 months, and they went and started nailing me as hard as they could. All said and done, I got hit 73 times smack in the face with power shots in a round and a half...then I stopped watching the tape of the sparring session.
Today we had to "spar" different guys every minute. We were supposed to tap and go for points, since our bodyweights were all over the place. I was outweighed by about 50 pounds against a strong and tall guy, so to be sure I said "take it easy". He said "sure, easy for my standards". I replied no easy for my standards, because I'm the one being outweighed by 50 pounds at least. First thing he did was punch me in the kidney at full force. I swear to god there was something iffy about his gloves, I think they were 10 ounce with little padding. They looked like Jack Dempsey used them back in the days. I told him to **** off right away, I don't feel like pissing blood. Piece of ****ing ****. I'm still mad about it. He didn't to any technical stuff at all, just whale away. I'm 145 pounds, he's almost 200 pounds. How the **** will that do anything for either of us. It's like me outslugging a strawweight, ****ing pointless.
as soon as they up the tempo, you up the tempo too ! that's what i do Otherwise i let them tire and pick em apart. My conditioning is my strength, so almost everyone gases before me
Sometimes you have to take what you can get. Not every gym has a fighter of each size and experience level. That's the whole point of taking it easy on someone if you have to.
Wtf? Can you just step out and refuse to engage in sparring with an overweight maniac? I know it sounds chicken ****. But I wouldnt be proud nor get off on beating a flyweight just beacuse I know I can... it proves nothing.
It wasn't supposed to be real sparring, just tapping (we had practiced some things in a drill before, the goal was to try what we learned in a controlled environment). The trainer already told us, since we were rotating opponents in a large group, outside the ring. It wasn't real sparring, my trainer would not have allowed that. Well I finished the round (there was maybe 30 seconds left) basically by staying out of reach and trying to jab a little. After that we were supposed to continue and I told him I wasn't interested. He isn't overweight btw, which is part of the problem. If it was 50 pounds of fat I would not mind sparring him at all. But like I said it wasn't even sparring, which makes it even worse. Me neither. He likes **** like that though, I've seen him do it before so I knew what to expect, that's why I told him to take it easy in advance.
