Sparring or Drilling?
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- Опубликовано: 18 июн 2024
- My recent video on sparring with Aikido sparked an interesting discussion... what is sparring? What is the difference between sparring and drilling? Can we come up with something that everyone can agree on?
Good video, great teacher! Yes, there's many types of sparring. 3 & 2 & 1-step-sparring, limited technique sparring, self defense, weapons, lite sparring, and free style, or open, or full contact sparring. Depends what we want to work on today! Love this channel!
Drilling - repeated contained similar motion to learn / improve muscle memory and form for a single technique or combination. Open form - sparring to apply said drilled techniques in a more real world situation.
Totally agree, Sir! Muay Thai fighters spar without allowing to body slam or triangular choke each other, yet no one utters a single complaint.
Ignore the naysayers, Sir, I enjoy your insights and perspectives in martial arts, keep on doing what you’re doing!
To me, sparring is free form, applying techniques learned on your opponent with, like what you mentioned, parameters put in to make the sparring appropriate.
Drilling is less free form, more often techniques conducted with counts and sets by a supervising instructor.
the biggest difference is the fact that drills are an agreement to practice a technique or series of techniques in a planned way, as if you were acting under a script (fighter 1 does a side kick and fighter 2 does a backward displacement and counters with a round kick to the head), while in a sparring there is freedom of how to do things, it doesn't matter if both practitioners have objectives or are limited to certain techniques, it is the fact that they are allowed to improvise, to choose themselves at the moment what to do that makes it a sparring, it is the fact that they are given that freedom of choice that ends up making them do unplanned things and then it becomes something useful for the fight. Because a "real" fight no matter what kind is not planned and learning to deal with things you don't expect in order to use your resources is a crucial skill in combat.
@@user-kg7qn7yo4d agreed
Simple, sparring has random setups and moves. Drilling is having a premade setup and a set series of moves or single move used.
What if two different moves are allowed? Three? Four? What is the magic number, if there is one.
@@tkdguide It depends on if the move is expected or not. If the series of moves are expected or if you're taking turns performing them, I'd considering that drilling. If the moveset is limited but they can come from either person any time, it's sparring since when and how the move comes out is random.
Drilling is a very limited form of simulated combat intended to improve your skills at something very specific. Sparring is the freest form of simulated combat in any martial art where the practitioners experience combat as realistically as possible. A sort of pressure testing where you use everything you know under stress, to make sure you can use it in real combat. Beacuse there is a difference between using techniques in a controlled environment and a environment with the least control possible that is still relativly safe for the practitioner. Calling "everything" sparring is fine, like calling every punch and elbow technique a hand technique. But using specific terms for different things adds clarity and avoids confusion.
First!!, Without seeing it i can say it's gonna be good!!
In boxing, it’s controlled sparring.
Ooo ok
There's drills and there's sparring.
There is also a blurry middle ground.
Honestly who cares as they are both intended to teach skills.
Good video
Taekwondo Guide. Probably the most important question in the history of the world here….when sparring, is it okay to put the arms and leg guards on top of the dobok? Personally, I fasten them under as it looks hella cringey otherwise!
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Back in the day we used to 1-step & 3-step sparring as well as hoshinsul/selfdefense sparring all of which was very mechanical & scripted… all within the realm of sparring. Ironically all you and I’ve described are contained in the latest version of the kukkiwon Sparring textbook.
Yeah, it’s so funny how broadly the term gets applied.
I'd call it good training to develop techniques.
Why do some of your commenters act like youre teaching No Touch Knockout magic or something lol 😂
Equivocating between live and dead practice exercises with the word "drill" is not helpful for anyone. It literally muddies the waters and makes productive communication difficult, if not impossible.
Sparring has always had its own technical understanding within martial arts. Most people mean aliveness, although "one step" or "three step" modify it, and in that case, it is not live.
This is why I developed my definition of aliveness.
I define drills as scripted and/or cooperative exercises. They are not useful for learning to fight or compete. Hopefully we can rid ourselves of the ridiculous terminology.
I think your aikido video was too cooperative to be considered properly alive, and thus it wasn't genuine sparring imo. He didn't need to be more intense or hit you with a staff. He needed more liberty to counter you in an intelligent way. From what I saw, it was quite overconstrained and your partner behaved like an aikidoka rather than someone who might actually try to manhandle you.
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