Last night was more interesting than usual at the gym. I did a nasty boot camp and then did MT class as normal. The drills in class were amped up a bit, then we went into sparring. I was out of gas already, then this.
I did pretty well with my first opponent and felt loose. Then I went up against one more guy and the results were not so good. If the round were judged, I probably would have lost 10-9, but felt like I lost by more because I am so hard on myself.
My sparring partner for this round has been around the gym for a much longer time than me but he wasn't sparring like we usually do. When you are sparring you are NOT fighting and are supposed to pull your punches and kicks. He was absolutely drilling me and midway through I asked him "wtf". He didn't reply so I decided I needed to take matters into my own hands and let him have it a bit. He didn't like this as I kick REAL hard at this point in my life. Eventually he caught one of my kicks and threw me - a technique that I utilize quite often.
The problem I have is that I don't want to hurt anyone while sparring. I had previously caught a few of his kicks, but SIMULATED my cut kick on the remaining leg and let his kicking leg go. Of course then he goes and throws me on the deck in a spectacular fashion instead of returning the favor.
Maybe he was having a bad day, I don't know. But I was pissed off. Eventually his lack of conditioning failed him and I gave him a blizzard of techniques in the last 30 seconds of the round.
I did find (yet another) weakness in my game though - my sparring partner hardly ever initiated the fighting, rather counter punched the whole time. I need practice on how to fight this type of opponent better.
The old body is batterd and bruised today, but a lot was learned by getting my butt handed to me for a while last night.
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