ZachZinn
13th October 2007, 05:28
Hey all, if you recall a few months back I posted about sparring, and we had a thread for a bit.
Since this time I have had a couple sparring classes which went fine given the respective levels of the people involved, so thanks for everyone's input.
What I am wondering now is how ( way down the line in the case of my dojo, just thinking ahead) to integrate throws and takedowns into sparring effectively with people who have never done this before.
When I was a kid/teenager we sparred with takedowns, usually this amounted to not much more than a sloppy osoto-gari or harai-gosh (sp?) type technique, but I don't remember for the life of me whether we were just thrown to the wolves or whether we were "stepped up" somehow to doing this.
I'm wondering if any karate people have specific drills they've practiced or been exposed to that are good prepatory work for sparring under this type of ruleset. Again this is something that probably wont be put into play for some time in my class, but the subject has simply been on my mind lately.
Thanks in advance.
Since this time I have had a couple sparring classes which went fine given the respective levels of the people involved, so thanks for everyone's input.
What I am wondering now is how ( way down the line in the case of my dojo, just thinking ahead) to integrate throws and takedowns into sparring effectively with people who have never done this before.
When I was a kid/teenager we sparred with takedowns, usually this amounted to not much more than a sloppy osoto-gari or harai-gosh (sp?) type technique, but I don't remember for the life of me whether we were just thrown to the wolves or whether we were "stepped up" somehow to doing this.
I'm wondering if any karate people have specific drills they've practiced or been exposed to that are good prepatory work for sparring under this type of ruleset. Again this is something that probably wont be put into play for some time in my class, but the subject has simply been on my mind lately.
Thanks in advance.