8 Ways To Be Prepared For Hard Sparring
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- čas přidán 30. 07. 2024
- Hard sparring is no joke and you want to have your best performance during these intense rounds. So today I share tips with you to help get you prepared for these vigorous rounds.
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Have you got any extra tips for hard sparring? If so drop them below and share with everyone 🙏🙏🙏
Don't hard spar with cracked ribs
Thanks coach
Diamond is very good!!
Make sure you got enough sleep beforehand and your hydrated. You want to make sure that your brain is hundred percent otherwise even light kicks will knock you down or even catch you up on the sleep you lost lol.
Don't hard spar, if you can, just be more active in the ring like the thai's! that should keep you good and sharp :) (as long as your winning lol)
Been sparring a lot lately was always scared of it when I was younger but now it's the funnest part of training to me and I always make sure to show up sparring day! I worked my left hook to the body and landed it several times on some pros and my coach. A good move to try to develop imo
Oooh yes. The left body hook is Beautiful
Do you uppercut the body hook
Or do you do a horizontal hook
Thanks🙏
Took my first leg kick in sparring, I’m walking with a little limp today haha
You're by far the best CZcamsr in martial arts. I've been doing kickboxing for over a year, and finding you was one of the best things I've done. Thanks a lot for what you are doing master. I wish you the best. Greetings from Venezuela 🙌
I think you should also be physically prepared and in a good shape, especially if you are hard sparing for the first time. what suprised me most was how energy draining taking as well as punshing at 80-100% is. So cardio is super important; you dont want to end up being gased after 1min 😅
Hi, Gab! Can you please make a "Beginners Guide To Sparring" or "How To Start Sparring" video?
This would be helpful for beginners who are scared to spar because they don't want to get hurt (or show up at work or pick up the kids at daycare with two black eyes and a busted nose!).
I've learned so much from your videos. Thanks and keep up the great work! 😃🥊
For sure. I'll add that to my list of videos that I will film.
Woah man you are THE best coach online. This info is absolute gold
thanks for the tips it has helped me a lot both in training and sparring.
I'm Brazilian and I always follow the channel's tips👍
I love the diamond cup so much, it’s saved my life and my future haha
Great video.
1 and 3 especially.
Only started hard sparring two weeks ago. First session took three leg kicks right at the end of the session and I couldn't train for a week. Cloth shin pads below leather makes so much sense.
Sometimes it helps to use the last/last 2 rounds of hard sparring for mainly testing your counters/escapes.
Never a shame to call it good sooner, too (like a minute before the end).
Good training partners won't get mad at you if you do it sometimes.
Never thought of #2. Pretty cool.
Jesus Christ these are good tips. Especially the second one I wouldn’t have though that would help I would probably bang my face to get psyched up but doing it with actual intention. Thankyou for sharing Gabriel
So funny you uploaded this today. I did 5 rounds of hard sparring today. In the last round I was pretty tired and caught a good shot above my right eyebrow. I couldn't help but think to myself "If I was in better shape, I would've dodged that" lol. Gotta up my cardio.
You're so productive man ! You make videos like you fight. A lot of volume ^^
The Diamond cup is essential
It’s like you really read my mind
Man you should do a collab with Jeff chan of mma shredded he is also Canadian.
Awesome
man you are such a fuckin legend... i just play your videos to calm myself down on the background ! :D
Watching your videos, I wish i would have a trainingpartner like you!
About the sparring, i quite doing amateur kickboxing fights because of the sparring. I dont generally like the sparring in the Netherlands, because it is always very hard. The sparring was more brutal than the two fights i had.
Water, salty food and WATER hours before. And lots of water the 2 days before.
Good sleep the night before using routines (important to make you find solutions for competitions).
Prepared quality fatty food in small servings for healing (3 meals prepared/2 days prepared. comforting too if you got owned lol). Plus cooking can help with cognitive anxiety the day before the fight.
Preparing ice so that you have enough of it post fight if needed. (Icing = 10 minutes ice max and 15/20minutes no ice, as many cycles as you want as long as you're not feeling cold).
Hard sparring close/around the full moon.
Having goals.
Herbs and spices and water and massage after the fight.
Long steam bath or normal sauna (normal duration aka less than 20 minutes) on day 2 and 3 after the fight.
No diuretics to 'help healing' (🙄).
No sexual activity after a tough fight (2 days minimum if you won, 3 days minimum if you lost/got injured). GF/waifu can be nice differently for the warrior to rest. Minimal sexual activity before hard sparring fights/pre-competitive weeks.
Watching videos of the fight day 2 post fight, not sooner. In the morning.
Forgot.. :
Connect more/better to Nature before and after a tough fight. (and after a pre-competitive training camp)
I guess groin protecion is THE MOST important piece of gear in each sparring session, not only in hard one. I hope you realize it before getting hit there, not post factum.
Keep safe and enjoy your training!
Nahh, not that bad. Just breathe it away 😅
Nah i got iron balls bro im good
Please make videos sparing maybe break down sparring sessions like you do on fights. Nice video hope to see more of these
my major point would be to keep it technical.. OK to go hard but you want to make sure you are sparring what you are training.. I found this happened a lot with the beginners.. they would just want to prove they can hang so would throw technique out the window and just swing...great final point about establishing rounds... especially helps when you are switching up partners each round too.
Thank u
I think the biggest thing is definitely communication. I’ve had it happen a couple times where I don’t say clearly enough that I just want to go light and someone takes it as a challenge or something
got clipped 1x & immediately ordered a steel cup. gladly had it on during a spar last week.
I Am sure this guy will give us a useful advice
I try 🙂
Thanks for the tips man. I was thrown in a situation where I didn't know I was going into hard sparring last week. I thought it was just regular or light sparring and dude tried to knock me out. It was a much more experienced fighter, and fortunately I was able to take the shots.
at my gym, we always preface each sparring session with "it's ok to tell your opponent to slow down"
@@MikesDadvice I don't go to that gym anymore. Looking back I don't mind it and it was a learning experience. I actually am thankful for the experience because I know I am capable of being there and I learned I can hold my own when someone is trying to take my head off. I am more experienced now and you're bound to get dropped in sparring by guys who are good regardless. That's the name of the game
Thanks for the video. Could you expand on the vaselline. I normally use headgear with chin protectors. You confirm i can put vaselline on the frontal part of the headgear? Should i remove somehow the vaselline, after sparring, i mean is it somehow damaging the gear?
Hard Sparring is the best part of training
Could you show what custom mouthguard you use, and the ones you use for Kickboxing and MMA pro fights?
I’ve been out now with a foot injury for just over a month and I haven’t been back to my Muay Thai gym since. I’ve just started to shadow box at home and work on the heavy bag at the gym I go to, to train weights. It felt really weird kicking as I haven’t for so long and I feel my usual sparring partners will be considerably better than me.Do you have any tips on how to come back from injuries once you are fully fit?
Just train your mind. You can run simulations in your mind
So much pride in sparring gets people hurt.
Gabriel, a question for you: when you get hurt in non-fighting setting (hammer to a finger or toes against the bed corner kind of scenario), do you react like the rest of us, or do you just shrug it off and carry on with your day? Thanks!
He actually made a comment about walking into a coffee table in one video. And he said he's basically a cry baby when that happens
sorry for repeating the request but tips for teaching kids boxing and kick boxing etc...
Any tips on where to get a custom mouthpiece?
Yeah, must take these advice when sparring with a beginner cos they're most likely going to hit hard especially for those whose natural instinct is not shelling up but to swing their arms blindly all over the place.
If I'm doing hard work out I have a few table spoons of honey about 20 minutes before
I dont like hardsparring I feel bad. My arms are like sledgehammers if I even add half my speed to the strike just with their dead weight alone. And I got like a 10 gallon head that is hard to KO so its not really fair.
Hi Gabriel what about the OZ on the gloves for sparring....I use 14 or 16 oz...I think that below 14 is only for real fight...What is your thoughts of that ? my weight is now 80 old fight weight i 71KG
Always use 16 ozs. The 14s will create an illusion that you’re faster than you actually are, when you really you just have lighter gloves than the otherwise even opponent.
A lot of people don't realize Hard Sparring isn't a Fight.
No money or belts on the line at the gym right 🙂
How hard is hard sparring? Sometimes when I spar a couple rounds I catch one or two hard hits to the head and end up with a headache. Never been hit by someone who was putting anymore than 50% power though. Maybe 60% max. What percentage is hard vs too hard? I usually think of light as 10-20% max.
It's not just a percentage of strength, at least on my gym in light sparring we're not able to kick hard the head or the shins. In hard sparring we can throw anything with 100%, but we're not able to finish someone if he goes drunk after a punch. If that happens, sparring stop, cuz you don't want to hurt your partner.
@@DanielGonzalez-ck7qv if you don't want to hurt your partner you shouldn't be throwing anything 100%
@@ReverentGhost That's what you said when someone is not trying to rip off your head. But when you have to spar hard, sometimes you throw hard shots, specially to the body
@@DanielGonzalez-ck7qv too the body is ok I think. I just don't put much power into head shots, sparring isn't worth brain damage. I don't want my training partners going home with headaches and I don't either
Hard sparring is 80-90%
But more important is the focus, the impulses from the ground (100%), the explosive footwork in direction and precision, the very strong desire to accomplish something (good sparring has goals), the seriousness given to following a tactic, learning to listen to your corner/'calm down', learning to detect serious injury (if it feels very real, it's real. even though the pain might not be very sharp due to max activation and/or adrenaline dump), etc.
Hard sparring is about coming very close to a fight in all its parameters, not just 'hitting hard'.
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You must give up who you think you are, to find out who you are. Walk through the fire friends.
Hi Gabriel, I love your videos! I pretty much watch them daily. You cover such a variety of topics within kickboxing with so much detail in a humble and encouraging way. As a female fighter, I often feel somewhat alienated though. I've talked to other female fighters who feel the same way. I definitely think you're not doing it on purpose but while you acknowledge that women train, whenever you talk about your viewers' oppenents, sparring partners or coaches you exclusively use the pronoun "he". It would mean a lot if you'd acknowledge women in these roles (by simply saying "he or she", or people/folks instead of guys), as we're often disregarded as coaches and sparring partners and not taken as seriously as fighters.
I use vaseline even when i’m not sparring
Lol