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Olympic Sparring (All ages)
Sparring is an Olympic Sport that involves full contact kicking and punching. Students are fully protected with head gear, a chest protector, arms and shin guards, mouth pieces & etc. The goal of Taekwondo Sparring is not fighting- but learning how to use your skills against your opponent in the best possible way. Sparring training can be hard and intense; however, It can be fun too. If your passion is train hard and wins the competition, this is the right class for you.
Sparring is as real as it gets. It’s that simple. Sparring requires you to use every one of your attributes – forcing you to sharpen your skills and practice things like the controlling distance, timing, speed, agility and focus as well as cardiovascular and muscle endurance to name just a few.
Sparring is the nearest thing to a real fight, without actually fighting.
Benefits Of Sparring
Sparring will help you develop a greater understanding and application of the following skills:
- Distance– How to control the distance between you and your partner.
- Rhythm– How to break your opponents rhythm.
- Timing – How to judge the timing of your opponent and know when to hit.
- Combinations – How to land combinations while your partner moves forwards, backwards, sideways and tries to counter.
- Footwork – How to move in, out and to the sides to strike or evade a punch.
- Speed – You will learn how to use your speed to hit your opponent before they can block, as well as move quickly out the way of a strike.
- Balance – You will learn to control your balance and center of gravity while in a fighting motion.
- Reaction – You will improve your reaction times.
- Focus – You will be forced to keep focus and concentrate on the fight without distractions. The second you switch off you will know about it!
- Cardiovascular – Your fitness levels will have to adapt and will improve.
- Muscular endurance – Your endurance and stamina will have to adapt and will improve.
- Conditioning – You will learn to get hit and fake that it doesn’t hurt so you can carry on.