When did your trainer first want you to spar?

[Nacho_Analstain]

i hate how every 1 is always stood around the ring watchin,i would perform better if every 1 got on with theyre business while i got on with mine,but i spose there are crouds when fightin a real fight

[Tysonisgod]

I had ma first spar 2 weeks into trainin...it was thai boxin ma first boxin spar was the second day i went into the club lol

[J_U_L_I_A_N]

On my fourth visit to the gym, which was yesterday,my trainer wanted me to spar an older smaller guy whos been going to the gym for 3 months but he still hasn't sparred yet. I couldn't because i didn't bring a mouthguard(never thought they'd want me to spar this early) I'm moving along quite quickly because ive been shadowboxing and hitting the bag for about a year before going to the gym so i can punch. Today i'm going again and i'll be bringing a mouthpiece. I have full confidence in my abilty to do better than him and ill give an update when i get back from the gym

a friend and me went to the gym the first day and the trainer said you two are about the same weight would you like to spar.. it was only going to be one round but we both got good hits so we took another.. I gave my friend the first combination I learned ( 1-2-3) twenty minutes before and he fell flat on his face and didn't get it up for seven seconds.. I didn't want to go on any longer and risk some kind of injury to my good friend so we stopped..

[skyler]

When i was about 11 me and a friend who were going to this gym for about 2 years at the time, we usually only sparred using jiu jitsu, but the owner finally bought a new place which was much bigger and had an actual boxing ring instead of the matts so we could finally give it ago..

So we had finished are grading for jiu jitsu for a next belt and badges, since we do half a lesson of jiu jitsu and the other half boxing, so he got the whole class to put on some headgear and some gloves so we could try out the new ring he had got, we each had turns fighting each other..

Basically me and my friend took turns beating the crap out of everyone.. lol not really but we were like 2 years ahead of everyone else because kids would always end up quitting after a few months..

[KingDosia]

My theory is you have to be sound in your skills. To the point most of your movements are second nature. I sparred 3 months in My trainer wanted to wait, but needed a strong guy my size to sparr with one of his fighters getting ready for a tourn. The exersize was mostly d for me he wanted me to tie him up. push him around and smother the pucnches and work on my slipping. I've done a ton of ring drills before that, And was ready for the work though I got knocked around. It was a good experience. I didn't do an all out spar, for another two months. My problem was I hit hard and was a little over motivated. tried to throw everything with bad intentions. I needed to calm that down and work on form and technique. I see why now. some guys are rushed to the ring and don't pick up as much as they should from sparring. They abandon what the have learned and get into some bad habits. Which I'm sure they take to the ring in a fight. I plan on training in the near future. my guys will have to put in a lot of work before sparring. I have learned from some top trainers that is the best policy. I back it up from experience.