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Sparring Research Paper

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Sparring It is your first time putting on your gear, with excitement running through your body. You go from sitting on the side lines watching, from finally getting to know what it is like to spar. You line up according to rank, and you turn and bow to your instructor, and then your fellow classmate who you will be sparring. You step back and giup, as everyone else does, and your instructor calls start. As you walk forward and start, you notice it is not as easy as it seems. As a white belt you also notice you cannot just simply jump in and get everything down at that exact time, but you notice how you will have to practice this your entire lifetime of taekwondo. Sparring is a way to practice your basic fundamental techniques and advanced …show more content…

Sparring can typically be defined as a form of training using boxing or martial arts. When you spar someone during class, you teach each other ways to make yourselfs better, and how to use effective techniques and combinations. You are not trying to see who is better, because it is about better yourselves and focusing on what you need to work on. Sparring often gives you insight on how someone could approach you during a fight, and how to handle it. But outside of class, there is no such thing as sparring anymore, there is no padding or gear, so it is now a fight. If someone comes at you with multiple techniques at once, sparring could help with how you move around the target, how to block their techniques, and how to engage. One steps or self defense is another important teaching of Taekwondo and can also help with defending yourself. With self defense techniques and sparring combined, it could successfully stop your …show more content…

Tournament sparring is much more competitive. It is where you finally put your training to the test, and try your best to win or achieve your goal. There are different types to levels of sparring as well, such as states, or national. Some sparring tournaments allow full contact where knock out is allowed. In a standard sparring match, you versus opponents with the same rank and usually people within the same age range. Judges stand in the four corners of the rings, and when someone makes contact on another person without being blocked, it is a point. In a sparring match, the opponents might “clash” which means both strike each other at the same time, and no points are counted. All points usually count as one, but if someone throws a successful and controlled kick to the head with slight touch, it is two points. Three rounds will usually occur and whoever has the most points by the end of the rounds will win. From there, the winners from each round will continue to spar until there is one final winner. The winners will either get some sort or trophy or medal for the place they come in. When you walk away from a tournament, you will always learn some sort of lesson. It might be about what to do better next time, or how you should treat every opponent with

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