mook jong man
Senior Master
Yes boxers are formidable , they only know 4 punches but they can do them very well , they are also highly conditioned and they are used to being hit.
One thing they are not used to however is being kicked in the legs . Use the low heel kick to attack his kneecap or shins , that lead leg of theirs is sticking right out asking for it .
Use the low heel kick to keep him at bay , it doesn't matter how good his punches are if he can't get in range to use them . If he is a very tall bloke you might want to use your heel kick to the groin to maximise your range and keep his hands away from you .
The pain of the kick causes a distraction and then you step in and shut him down with your hands. On a side note years ago we had a state champion boxer come in to start training with us , he wanted to see what i would do against his double and triple jabs .
He stayed out of range because he was scared i was going to kick him and i said i would only use hands , so he came in with a jab and i intercepted it with my own punch and stuck to his wrist with my fook sau . The look on his face was priceless as he kept on retreating and trying to rechamber his jab with my fook sau stuck to his wrist , eventually i pinned his lead hand and trapped him.
Matsu don't be so down on your self , you have only been training for six months , and it sounds like the blokes you are sparring are pretty experienced fighters , personally i think it is too early for you to be doing full on sparring .
I reckon at this early stage you should be doing a limited version of sparring such as defending against only random straight punches , or only random roundhouse punches and so on .
This way you are eased into sparring gently with out being overwhelmed by the experience .
But at least you are pressure testing yourself which is more than what most people do , i have seen people who came into training and never raise a sweat and just do light chi sau and talk about what they did on the weekend and they do that for years.
They never seem to understand the martial bit in the words martial art. Anyway it is more likely you will face an untrained drunken yob in the street than a trained fighter , trained blokes know what they can do and don't go looking for trouble it's mostly the wannabees that you have to watch out for.
So don't be hard on yourself you will learn from the hits you recieve by analysing why you got hit , and how you got hit and making sure you fix up the chinks in your armour so you don't get hit in the future .
Don't worry you will go through this again it's all about getting your ego knocked down and you building it up again , if we didn't make any mistakes we wouldn't learn.
I remember reading once that the great Wong Shun Leung said that it was perfectly normal that in a real fight you would wear a couple of punches on your own body , and you couldn't expect to get out of it totally unscathed.
So chalk it up to experience and put it behind you matey
One thing they are not used to however is being kicked in the legs . Use the low heel kick to attack his kneecap or shins , that lead leg of theirs is sticking right out asking for it .
Use the low heel kick to keep him at bay , it doesn't matter how good his punches are if he can't get in range to use them . If he is a very tall bloke you might want to use your heel kick to the groin to maximise your range and keep his hands away from you .
The pain of the kick causes a distraction and then you step in and shut him down with your hands. On a side note years ago we had a state champion boxer come in to start training with us , he wanted to see what i would do against his double and triple jabs .
He stayed out of range because he was scared i was going to kick him and i said i would only use hands , so he came in with a jab and i intercepted it with my own punch and stuck to his wrist with my fook sau . The look on his face was priceless as he kept on retreating and trying to rechamber his jab with my fook sau stuck to his wrist , eventually i pinned his lead hand and trapped him.
Matsu don't be so down on your self , you have only been training for six months , and it sounds like the blokes you are sparring are pretty experienced fighters , personally i think it is too early for you to be doing full on sparring .
I reckon at this early stage you should be doing a limited version of sparring such as defending against only random straight punches , or only random roundhouse punches and so on .
This way you are eased into sparring gently with out being overwhelmed by the experience .
But at least you are pressure testing yourself which is more than what most people do , i have seen people who came into training and never raise a sweat and just do light chi sau and talk about what they did on the weekend and they do that for years.
They never seem to understand the martial bit in the words martial art. Anyway it is more likely you will face an untrained drunken yob in the street than a trained fighter , trained blokes know what they can do and don't go looking for trouble it's mostly the wannabees that you have to watch out for.
So don't be hard on yourself you will learn from the hits you recieve by analysing why you got hit , and how you got hit and making sure you fix up the chinks in your armour so you don't get hit in the future .
Don't worry you will go through this again it's all about getting your ego knocked down and you building it up again , if we didn't make any mistakes we wouldn't learn.
I remember reading once that the great Wong Shun Leung said that it was perfectly normal that in a real fight you would wear a couple of punches on your own body , and you couldn't expect to get out of it totally unscathed.
So chalk it up to experience and put it behind you matey
