Your probably sparring wrong!

Unlike the majority of fma sparring you see online, we stress using complete sets of skills to obtain the objective. Speed, timing, maneuvering, power and tactics. Often if you google/youtube fma sparring you will see only one or two of those above implemented. People rely too much on speed of hand to get lucky on a hit and not setting up the opponent for failure through a series of strikes. Essential controlling your opponent to put them or their hand were you want it. Or you see two gung ho fighters engaged in mutual attacks equalling mutual destruction where they both would be hit, bleeding and/or dead if using real weapons.
3 ways to engage. Weapon to weapon, weapon to hand, or weapon to the empty space you wish to own (advancement/cover fire). All 3 used with skill will win you the fight.
To help my students master the engagement of sparring, i’ll start them through a progression of live sparring but using only 1 or 2 techniques/angles. That way they can concentrate and learn pattern recognition in the fight. We progressively add more various strikes as we move along. I found this quite useful in advancing their skill. After 3-4 strikes, they reset.
In a gun fight, are you willing to take mutual damage to hit your target? That would be stupid. As so this should be the same for knife or any weapons based fighting. Only hand to hand combat can you trade shots and still live. Thats sport fighting.
Weapons fighting is survival through complete skill and a touch of luck!
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