Sparring skilled opponents

[Verstyle]

I like working with skilled, taller and heavier sparring partners. It makes me overall better. So when I face someone my height or close it's a lot better.

[RightCross94]

No, it's actually better to spar ******ed dwarves with no arms. That's what makes you better, not a ****** idea like sparring "skilled opponents" LOL! What is this?

[boxing_great]

the worst feeling is getting beaten up in sparring.I really hate it, unless your sparring somebody way bigger than you , then it isn't as bad.

[Domey]

I am the most experienced fighter down in my gym, and I usually get thrown in with newer fighters after they have been in the gym for a little bit.

I always work with them and go as hard as they go. I try mostly to touch them on the elbows or top of the headgear so they know and realize when they made mistakes.

Such as floating the right elbow, pulling it when they jab, not bringing hands back, that kind of stuff. Against a little more experienced people I will push them a little harder, using angles pivots and combination's, but nothing hard to hurt them.

The only time I will deliver a strong punch is if I get some ****y kid in the ring who wants to take my head off or taunt me even though I am working with them. I do not try to knock them out, I just slip a nice hook to the body to let them know who their daddy is =)

You should not be going against someone better then you all the time. You will get discouraged, and it can happen quick.

Most the guys in my gym spar with each other, and then I hop in once a week or every other week to give them a schooling. This gives them things to work on through the next week on the bag, pads, shadowboxing, and trying to fix during sparring with others.

A mix is best. If you are sparring against the same quality fighter all the time, you will progress slower and find you're still making the same mistakes over and over.

To the guy who said people are always trying to knock him out. I would start questioning your coach. No one should be going into sparring to hurt someone. It is just another exercise just like any other we do in the gym, except this is full contact. So the coach is either ******ed and does not realize this, or he is favoring certain fighters. Either way, someone should not be trying to boost their self-esteem by beating the piss out of a less experienced fighter. That is just bullying. They should be in there working on things as well, not just a schooling session.

I often work on my slips, my pivots, counter-punching, and what not while sparring a newer fighter. It would be way to easy and counter productive to go in, slip and land a big punch to end sparring, on both ends.

I spar with two heavyweights in my gym(I am a featherweight), which allows me to put more sting on my punches. They hold back, and it is obvious. I am comfortable and know I can take a pretty solid punch, and am also very slick and hard to hit. But I am not ******, and realize these guys could probably hurt me with one punch. Thankfully, they don't.

It's all about respect.

[Hook00513z]

man howd u get to 220lbs?msg me lol, thats my goal