How To Start Sparring | 8 Tips For Your First Ever Sparring Session

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Do you think you're ready to start live sparring? FightCamp Co-Founder & Trainer Tommy Duquette is speaking from experience when he says you need to listen to the professionals, get the right gear, and educate yourself with this awesome video!

Sparring is a live-action simulation of a fight to prepare you for competition, so be sure to only spar under the supervision of a professional coach and have the right equipment such as a mouthpiece, headgear, cup, and gloves. Prepare yourself before sparring by learning proper punching techniques and practice controlled partner drills.

8 Tips For Your First Sparring Session:
1. Don’t overtrain the night before getting into the ring. This applies to both sparring sessions and fights. You want to be at your best so don’t wear yourself out by overtraining.

2. Stay Relaxed. You don’t want to let your nerves get the best of you. Nerves will exhaust you so try to keep them under control. A relaxed fighter will be able to keep going but a tense, nervous fighter will gas out quickly.

3. KEEP YOUR HEAD UP! One of the most common beginner mistakes is keeping your head down. You need to keep it up so that you can see what going on.

4. Don’t eat a heavy meal before getting into the ring. A large meal can make you feel sluggish during a sparring session or fight.

5. Don’t bite off more than you can chew. Make sure your sparring partner is evenly matched in terms of weight and experience level and only commit to 3-4 two-minute rounds.

6. Make sure you and your opponent are wearing 16-ounce gloves or bigger. 16 ounces gloves are safer than wearing smaller gloves because they cushion the blows and act as shields to block incoming punches to the head, and It’s perfectly okay to check your opponent’s gloves prior to sparring to make sure they are not wearing smaller gloves.

7. Lean on your trainer and your muscle memory when getting into the ring. Focus on applying the basics and don’t get creative. The more advanced moves will fall into place over time as you practice.

8. KEEP YOUR HANDS UP! When you throw punches bring them back to your face and not down by your waist so you can block punches coming towards your head.

3 Drills to Practice Before Sparring:
》Drill 1 - Hands Up Catch & Counter
》Drill 2 - Jab Catch & Counter
》Drill 3 - 1-2-3 Catch & Counter

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Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction
1:30 - Tip 1
1:52 - Tip 2
2:18 - Tip 3
2:35 - Tip 4
2:48 - Tip 5
3:08 - Tip 6
3:47 - Tip 7
4:14 - Tip 8
4:47 - Drill 1 - Hands Up Catch & Counter
5:06 - Drill 2 - Jab Catch & Counter
5:30 - Drill 3 - 1-2-3 Catch & Counter
6:13 - Join FightCamp