Yesterday I had an ambivalent moment in a sparring session. I was matched with this 40 year old uncle who began punching hard, which is okay but out of nowhere threw a jumping teep with all his might sending me close to some equipment.

I returned a hard but not 100% teep and told him to go lightly, which he completely ignored and threw another hail marry ducking overhand, which I warned him again to go lightly.

At that point I realised this guy had 0 technique and leaving openings left and right, he only repeated two more times the same duck-overhand combo which ended with his head in a headlock.

I remained in the round but just pushed him and threw some light jabs to keep him at bay. For a reason I decided to not attack back and contain my emotions as I didn’t want to participate in his BDSM experiment (he was blissful when he got hit) or risk injury for the other sparring rounds.

Part of me is proud for not losing my temper and felt like a mature fighting mindset (why hurt a guy that obviously cant defend himself yet properly). But another part felt like I acted too passively to not escalate and I should had punished him for his actions.

Have you guys/girls had similar situations and did I react good for the situation?

Cant help but feel a bit of a bitch for not doing him dirty as well.

Been boxing for 5 years and still love it, but I've stopped sparring and fighting recently. The head contact wasn't sitting right with me anymore so I'd rather pack it in now than later.

Problem is I've tried keeping my training up and I've just lost all motivation without someone to actually compete against. Bag work on its own gets old fast.
Has anyone come over from boxing or another striking sport and found something that scratches the same itch? I still want to go hard against people, just not with my head on the line. What did you end up doing?

[EDIT]:
I’m okay with contact and maybe some head contact, I just feel the volume of punches to the head was getting too much. I couldn’t rely on a sparring partner not going too hard.

Salut Boooonjour, j'espère que tu vas bien. Du coup, pas de musique ni de montage. C'est une séance d'entraînement amateur. Je ferai mieux la prochaine fois.

My 4 year old just started karate and jui jitsu. Im looking for neon blue sparring gear with a face shield. Our coach told us usually when they are that little he recommends a face shield but I cant find the color blue he wants. I was wondering if anyone knew of a blue one like this with a face shield like in the second picture. It doesnt look like face shield can be added. My 4 year old said he would rather have that color blue color than the face shield. Do you find the face shield to be that important? Do you know of a place that sells this color with a face shield or one can be added. Seems like I'll have to compromise and choose face shield or the color he wants. ​

For the kids or adults who use to get bullied in school (highschool, elementary, collage, whatever) mentally or physically or both. Why did you take martial art class?

Edit: magnets are pretty attracted to it.

Edit 2: unfortunately, they chip very lightly when I strike one with another and they sound a little more hollow than a lot of metal. They are still pretty damn painful and durable and undoubtedly for practical use; they could save your life and probably take strikes from another weapon. But the faint chipping has me thinking that the metal it's made with certainly isn't iron or anything very authentic.

My great uncle got these off his friend and gave them to me, and I love them, but I'm curious to know where exactly they come from.

They have "Hokkaido" engraved above the handle, which I think is called the "tsuka."

I'm not sure if they're steel, stainless steel, chrome... I'm not an expert on this stuff.

I was thinking of learning karate but why is this so expensive? I can't afford it every month, What to do? I don't think watching videos online will work very well

I have front weak teeth due to a past injury can be knocked out easy without a firm custom level mouthguard but it's too expensive and bite and boil doesn't give enough layer of protection so any 3rd type of mouthguard to try

The McGregor and Nurmagomedov match was one of the greatest examples of a fight that with two completely opposite fighters with different motivations. McGregor obviously believed he was destined to be famous and was fighting for money and recognition. Nurmagomedov was fighting for his personal values and a desire to be excellent. I think both fighters hated losing, but McGregor‘s weakness was that his motivation was shallow. Khabib’s values and reason for fighting fit into his worldview and who he was inside as a person. Aside from technical differences and wrestling being king in the UFC (IMO), When the fight got hard, McGregor didn’t have the depth of purpose to push through and try to win.

Can you think of any other examples of fighters that were so different and created a great matchup?

In 2024 my former MMA instructor murdered his wife who I was friends with. She called me 3 hours before she was dead asking me for help but wouldn't tell me what with.

3 hours later her body was found beaten and she was dead.

Tonight I found out one of the most beautiful girls I've ever met in my entire life went to break up with her boyfriend who was a professional boxer. She was found dead recently it's not clear whether she was murdered or not.

I believe he was insanely jealous because he didn't think he could get somebody like her ever again so instead of dealing with his issues he took her from this world.

It hasn't been confirmed it was a murder yet but he had been threatening to kill her and sending her violent pictures of him beating things up until his knuckles were bloody.

And her body was just found so I haven't had the confirmation she was murdered but I'm going to talk to her family later.

We have a real problem.

A handful of years ago Roy Dean Brazilian jiu jitsu black belt was forced out of the bend Oregon community after he stalked one of his employees, a beautiful young woman around town.

War machine beat his ex-girlfriend and these tragedies just keep on happening.

The community does not hold these things accountable and we need to have a serious conversation because I'm just one person and I already know two women who have been killed.

That's not okay.

There needs to be a real conversation on this.

As for why I'm not sharing the names of 2 these women who I know, their families have asked for privacy.

Merab won the first two rounds easily, then Yan started touching him up and Merab's takedowns stopped working. After round 3 it was pretty much Yan's fight.

Two losses in a row for Merab for the first time ever. What does he even do from here?

肩靠 "Shoulder Kao" is a close-range Tai Ji technique using the shoulder and whole boby. In this practice, we work on boby connection, balance and structure, timing and distance and relaxed power. The goal is not to push with the shoulder alone, but to let the whole body move together as one. #taijiquan #taichichuan #太极拳 #kaotechnique #靠

I wish this area wasn’t so cramped so I could move around more freely but it izz wut it izzz

Been trying to learn choy lee fut, have been using this one guy on YouTube and a website, I'm thinking about using this AI app that analyses my moves. Was looking for advice on maybe websites or something to use, apps, or maybe someone who personally knows it. I'm trying to learn choy lee fut before broadening my kung fu to other styles as well.

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