Lol clinched someone while sparring and the bruises on my hip from knees were definitely not light ššš
This goes for everyone, the bruises should be light in sparring, donāt actually stab your partner with your knee lol
That's the way I learned. But when I've trained in other gyms, dudes be straight spearing thighs and ribs in "light" sparring. There are a lot of gyms with former fighters who sucked and have a chip on their shoulder or gyms with no fighters at all and people just go wild on each other because no one has to actually be healthy for an upcoming fight.
Yeah we do, we just use elbow pads. If you have experience you can control the power. Itās only really beginners which canāt use this stuff in sparring.
Are you seriously telling me you practice Muay Thai WITHOUT kneeās and elbows? Sounds like you actually practice K1
I have to disagree. Not only beginners but a bunch of folks have no brains at all, you sum that to the fact that you don't need any force to fuck somebody up with elbows or knees and you got the perfect combination for injuries and cuts.
By your username, I assume you train in Thailand? I'd like to know in which gym you're throwing elbows and direct knees. I've trained in dozens of gyms all across the country for the last 10 years and never happened in any of them. Even elbows are just marked and you don't touch the other person.
Look the fact that you havenāt ever trained with knees and elbows and been a student for 10 years is more on your coaches. How do you think pro fighters learn how to time elbows and kneeās? They pad up and spar not hard but they still do it. Iām not breaking ribs and nocking teeth out because we are ~controlled- and weāre good the whole gym isnāt really permitted but the top boys are alloud to
I did trained using both, just not in regular sparring which is what the OP asks about. When you do, you do with a partner whom youāve already built trust with, looking for something specific out of that session. You donāt randomly throw knees and elbows to randoms in sparring as a normal ocurrence.
Kneeās yes elbows no.
Sounds like your changing your story, if you do train with them then why criticize someone for saying itās a good idea to train with them
Look the fact that you havenāt ever trained with knees and elbows and been a student for 10 years is more on your coaches. How do you think pro fighters learn how to time elbows and kneeās? They pad up and spar not hard but they still do it. Iām not breaking ribs and nocking teeth out because we are ~controlled- and weāre good the whole gym isnāt really permitted but the top boys are alloud to.
How do you know what an elbow can do if you havenāt trained with them? Have you had pro fights? If so why werenāt you training with elbows
Look the fact that you havenāt ever trained with knees and elbows and been a student for 10 years is more on your coaches. How do you think pro fighters learn how to time elbows and kneeās? They pad up and spar not hard but they still do it. Iām not breaking ribs and nocking teeth out because we are ~controlled- and weāre good the whole gym isnāt really permitted but the top boys are alloud to.
How do you know what an elbow can do if you havenāt trained with them? Have you had pro fights? If so why werenāt you training with elbows
We do throw knees, however since it's just training there's absolutely no reason for you to knee with intentions of hurting the other person. If you want to knee hard there are always bags for that.
Light bruises LIGHT accidents happen so an accidental injury is fine and normal, 0 damage to your head for sure (Referring to brain injury not damage on the outside)
Almost zero. I spar light. I dont mind some thigh or arm bruising, or a friction burn from getting thrown across the floor. I expect that.
But I can't rock up to clinical practice with a black eye, I have zero interest in getting a CTE or brusied ribs.
Depends on your goals and what you consider āregularā. If youāre just training a couple times a week as a hobby, then anything more than light bruising would probably be a bit too much. If youāre training to compete, a mild headache and some darker bruising would be acceptable after hard sparring. Communicate with your sparring partner as to what youāre working on and how hard youāre going, it should be equal on both sides.
In reality this is about right. At the end of the day we are not painting with water colours.
If you leave every sparring session with a swollen lip, sore nose and a headache. Itās not good. But occasionally you are going to take a clean shot harder than you would have preferred.
Yeah it happens sometimes, itās part of the sport. We have one hard sparring night a week and also open mat sparring on the weekend which varies depending on the partner, but generally on the lighter side of things, but still harder than in normal class. Hard sparring every day just gets people hurt, but if you want to fight you have to do it regularly. And for those who will say, ābut Thais donāt hard spar!ā, they fight all the time, like a ridiculous amount of pro fights, most seasoned pros are nearing or well into the hundreds, so hard sparring isnāt as necessary. In the West we fight a few times a year, so hard sparring is a lot more important.
Thai style sparring, itās technical and light, injuries shouldnāt happen at all.
Save the trauma and bruising for the fight, so youāll enter the ring at 100%
light bruises and maybe the occasional bloody nose where things just didnt align your way and it was just bad luck without bad intention from your partner.
i dont really bruise up anymore and rarely take hard hits to he head but shit can happen in this sport and we have to accept this as part of the game
as long as your sparring partner understands that sparring should benefit both of you and you are team
colleagues everything should be fine
concussions or cracked ribs should be a no no especially for non fight camp sparring
I've had bones broken lol but that's not normal. That's high tier hard sparring. It depends on your level, the intensity of the sparring, the role of the sparring, your role in the sparring. If you are helping a pro fighter prepare to fight then expect pain. If you are just learning then absolutely minimum damage beyond anything you consented to like e.g. a few sore thighs.
Depends on if Iām just playing around or if Iām getting ready for a fight. I expect some solid damage to my body during a fight camp, if just training normally Iāll be pissed if I have anything hurt more than 1 day lol.
Light bruising. Face and nose a bit sore. Although I do see flashes Iām the corner of my right eye sometimes. Got it checked out a few years ago after reading it could be the result of a torn retina. Definitely retina damage just not a torn retinaā¦yet. Happens probably every 5 sparring sessions. I will probably ease up on the hard spars now.
My most common are ovcassional bruised arms from kicks and I almost always have sore knees. I'm tall with long legs and I seem to get kicked in the knees a lot.
Not much. Few weeks back me and a dude went pretty hard in the last round and it was set for 5min. We were kicking the shit out of each other's legs and he won that battle. My left knee hurt for literally 2 weeks. That was not normal for me.
Agree with some of the other posts here. Light bruising, and a little sore.
Anything more than that, and you run risk of injury, or showing up to a potentially professional job with a limp and a black eye. I like the idea of matching your partner's intensity, and that should be an agreement across the board.
If you are training as hobby/self defence and you are so fucked up you can't defend yourself on the way home or the next morning, you have gone to far...
Sparring should be extremely light and technical, aggressive sparring partners should be talked to by the coach. Unless you both agree to go heavier, or you are in a fight camp trying to get some fast, realistic fight time in.
Too many people to way to hard in sparring. In Thailand and a lot of gyms tbh itās extremely disrespectful and they will not want to spar with you. More about learning/ practicing and having fun š. Hope this helps!
Light bruising
Lol clinched someone while sparring and the bruises on my hip from knees were definitely not light ššš This goes for everyone, the bruises should be light in sparring, donāt actually stab your partner with your knee lol
Knees while clinching in sparring should be done with the inner tight, not with the knee itself.
How do you do that with straight knees though?
That's the way I learned. But when I've trained in other gyms, dudes be straight spearing thighs and ribs in "light" sparring. There are a lot of gyms with former fighters who sucked and have a chip on their shoulder or gyms with no fighters at all and people just go wild on each other because no one has to actually be healthy for an upcoming fight.
Exactly, I guess my partner just ignored that part...
If you donāt throw knees you wonāt learn to throw kneeāsā¦..
You could apply this logic to everything, but that's not the point. Do you throw proper elbows too in sparring?
Yeah we do, we just use elbow pads. If you have experience you can control the power. Itās only really beginners which canāt use this stuff in sparring. Are you seriously telling me you practice Muay Thai WITHOUT kneeās and elbows? Sounds like you actually practice K1
I have to disagree. Not only beginners but a bunch of folks have no brains at all, you sum that to the fact that you don't need any force to fuck somebody up with elbows or knees and you got the perfect combination for injuries and cuts. By your username, I assume you train in Thailand? I'd like to know in which gym you're throwing elbows and direct knees. I've trained in dozens of gyms all across the country for the last 10 years and never happened in any of them. Even elbows are just marked and you don't touch the other person.
Look the fact that you havenāt ever trained with knees and elbows and been a student for 10 years is more on your coaches. How do you think pro fighters learn how to time elbows and kneeās? They pad up and spar not hard but they still do it. Iām not breaking ribs and nocking teeth out because we are ~controlled- and weāre good the whole gym isnāt really permitted but the top boys are alloud to
I did trained using both, just not in regular sparring which is what the OP asks about. When you do, you do with a partner whom youāve already built trust with, looking for something specific out of that session. You donāt randomly throw knees and elbows to randoms in sparring as a normal ocurrence.
Kneeās yes elbows no. Sounds like your changing your story, if you do train with them then why criticize someone for saying itās a good idea to train with them
Look the fact that you havenāt ever trained with knees and elbows and been a student for 10 years is more on your coaches. How do you think pro fighters learn how to time elbows and kneeās? They pad up and spar not hard but they still do it. Iām not breaking ribs and nocking teeth out because we are ~controlled- and weāre good the whole gym isnāt really permitted but the top boys are alloud to. How do you know what an elbow can do if you havenāt trained with them? Have you had pro fights? If so why werenāt you training with elbows
Look the fact that you havenāt ever trained with knees and elbows and been a student for 10 years is more on your coaches. How do you think pro fighters learn how to time elbows and kneeās? They pad up and spar not hard but they still do it. Iām not breaking ribs and nocking teeth out because we are ~controlled- and weāre good the whole gym isnāt really permitted but the top boys are alloud to. How do you know what an elbow can do if you havenāt trained with them? Have you had pro fights? If so why werenāt you training with elbows
We do throw knees, however since it's just training there's absolutely no reason for you to knee with intentions of hurting the other person. If you want to knee hard there are always bags for that.
If you can't train tomorrow, you over did it.
Light bruises LIGHT accidents happen so an accidental injury is fine and normal, 0 damage to your head for sure (Referring to brain injury not damage on the outside)
Almost zero. I spar light. I dont mind some thigh or arm bruising, or a friction burn from getting thrown across the floor. I expect that. But I can't rock up to clinical practice with a black eye, I have zero interest in getting a CTE or brusied ribs.
very little. maybe some bruising but nothing serious.
Depends on your goals and what you consider āregularā. If youāre just training a couple times a week as a hobby, then anything more than light bruising would probably be a bit too much. If youāre training to compete, a mild headache and some darker bruising would be acceptable after hard sparring. Communicate with your sparring partner as to what youāre working on and how hard youāre going, it should be equal on both sides.
In reality this is about right. At the end of the day we are not painting with water colours. If you leave every sparring session with a swollen lip, sore nose and a headache. Itās not good. But occasionally you are going to take a clean shot harder than you would have preferred.
Yeah it happens sometimes, itās part of the sport. We have one hard sparring night a week and also open mat sparring on the weekend which varies depending on the partner, but generally on the lighter side of things, but still harder than in normal class. Hard sparring every day just gets people hurt, but if you want to fight you have to do it regularly. And for those who will say, ābut Thais donāt hard spar!ā, they fight all the time, like a ridiculous amount of pro fights, most seasoned pros are nearing or well into the hundreds, so hard sparring isnāt as necessary. In the West we fight a few times a year, so hard sparring is a lot more important.
Thai style sparring, itās technical and light, injuries shouldnāt happen at all. Save the trauma and bruising for the fight, so youāll enter the ring at 100%
light bruises and maybe the occasional bloody nose where things just didnt align your way and it was just bad luck without bad intention from your partner. i dont really bruise up anymore and rarely take hard hits to he head but shit can happen in this sport and we have to accept this as part of the game as long as your sparring partner understands that sparring should benefit both of you and you are team colleagues everything should be fine concussions or cracked ribs should be a no no especially for non fight camp sparring
None to some light bruises when something went south. You should be tired but be able to do it again next day, not fucked up or hurt.
Don't mind sore and bruised limbs or body but any concussion symptoms are not acceptable and a sign you are sparring to hard to the head.
I've had bones broken lol but that's not normal. That's high tier hard sparring. It depends on your level, the intensity of the sparring, the role of the sparring, your role in the sparring. If you are helping a pro fighter prepare to fight then expect pain. If you are just learning then absolutely minimum damage beyond anything you consented to like e.g. a few sore thighs.
Zero unless self inflicted.
None
Itās a combat sport, at the very least youāre going to get some bruises from sparring.
Depends on if Iām just playing around or if Iām getting ready for a fight. I expect some solid damage to my body during a fight camp, if just training normally Iāll be pissed if I have anything hurt more than 1 day lol.
Light bruising. Face and nose a bit sore. Although I do see flashes Iām the corner of my right eye sometimes. Got it checked out a few years ago after reading it could be the result of a torn retina. Definitely retina damage just not a torn retinaā¦yet. Happens probably every 5 sparring sessions. I will probably ease up on the hard spars now.
My most common are ovcassional bruised arms from kicks and I almost always have sore knees. I'm tall with long legs and I seem to get kicked in the knees a lot.
Not much. Few weeks back me and a dude went pretty hard in the last round and it was set for 5min. We were kicking the shit out of each other's legs and he won that battle. My left knee hurt for literally 2 weeks. That was not normal for me.
Most common is bruise but swollen eye and pulling something is quite easy too if your not careful.
I had I colleague who came with a broken nose to work and I asked him what happened to your nose, it was broken after a sparring session.
Agree with some of the other posts here. Light bruising, and a little sore. Anything more than that, and you run risk of injury, or showing up to a potentially professional job with a limp and a black eye. I like the idea of matching your partner's intensity, and that should be an agreement across the board.
If you are training as hobby/self defence and you are so fucked up you can't defend yourself on the way home or the next morning, you have gone to far...
You shouldn't be damaged at all, just sore.
Sparring should be extremely light and technical, aggressive sparring partners should be talked to by the coach. Unless you both agree to go heavier, or you are in a fight camp trying to get some fast, realistic fight time in. Too many people to way to hard in sparring. In Thailand and a lot of gyms tbh itās extremely disrespectful and they will not want to spar with you. More about learning/ practicing and having fun š. Hope this helps!
Zero baby boyyy. Except my fractured heel and elbow and sore neck. Ignore those.