Sparring is a fairly large training aspect.
Depends on the school, you realiseā¦ I meanā¦ in everything I do, there's, oh, let's seeā¦ none. Soā¦ not so much a "fairly large training aspect"ā¦
If you're not applying your techniques in a full contact environment, how can you develop proper striking power, or learn how to handle a blow to the body?
You're kidding, right? Are you genuinely so woefully ignorant as to think that there is only one way of developing power or conditioning?!? Seriously?!?!? You do know that such things have been trained without sparring, especially without "full contact" sparring in many systems for centuries, yeah? And besides, power training is often better done outside of sparring, full contact or notā¦ as there's no need to hold back thenā¦ and trust me, you go "full contact" with me, you're going to understand why power is trained separatelyā¦ when you get up again.
The same applies to grappling arts. If you're not sparring in Judo, how are you learning how to grip? How are you learning how to throw or take a throw?
Kata.
Seriously. That's what it's for (in part).
So if I get knocked down in a self defense situation, and a guy gets on top of me and I apply guard, break his posture, and sweep him to gain dominant positioning to either deal punishment, or run away, how is that "diametrically opposed" to the sparring I've done in class numerous times?
Wow, that has got to be one of the most impressive examples of showing how much you don't have a clue about the argument I've seen in a long timeā¦
Here's the thingā¦ you get that the actual difference is in the context and set-up, yeah? Not "what technique I use"? Cause, when all's said and done, the technique is irrelevantā¦ contextual training is what's important. But if you really want to know what the difference is, it's in your attitude, and what you do nextā¦
I was talking about full contact sparring in general, not only Kyokushin. Nice dodge though.
You're kidding, yeah?!? This entire thread is about (Shin)Kyokushin versus Shito Ryu!!!! You were directly referencing the OP's comments on the different sparring ideologies of the two systemsā¦ so yes, it absolutely was about Kyokushin style sparring specifically!
Dudeā¦ read.
But let's talk about Kyokushin; Taking full contact blows to the body can just be as helpful as taking full contact blows to the face.
You don't get much into biomechanics much, do you?
The same principle applies here. If you don't know how to take a hit, all that pretty striking goes out the window.
Again, how do you know that's not going on? How do you know that Shito Ryu's sparring is not "full contact"? There's no mention of it anywhereā¦ just a "point" systemā¦
Additionally, while they don't allow punches to the head, they do allow kicks to the head.
Yes, they doā¦ most Kyokushin knockouts come from kicks, because the hands are held low (not needing to protect their face from punches)ā¦ that doesn't mean that they're regularly kicking each other in the head, thoughā¦
In the end the point remains; Full contact toughens up the body.
As does any number of other training methodologies, such as Hojo Undo conditioningā¦
You need a toughened body in order to deal with a bad situation.
Erā¦ wellā¦ huh?
No. You don't. For one thing, it will depend on the situation. For another, you're basically saying that, unless you spend lots of time dealing with people hitting you, you can't possibly handle a "bad situation"ā¦ which is kinda disproved by everyone who's not a WWE wrestler getting through such events. You know those 7 year old girls that fight off abduction attempts? Had "toughened bodies" did they?
Wanna rethink that?
You don't consider someone invading your personal space and trying to do you bodily harm as a "violation" of your person? Interestingā¦.
No. It's a violation of personal space, but a violation of the person involves putting something inside the personā¦ and, in the context you used it, the common implication is some form of sexual assault, such as rape.
Again, you have a rather bizarre way of interpreting wordsā¦
Which part of my statement doesn't coincide with what occurred in the article?
Honestly, I don't think you'd recognise it if it was spelled out in flaming letters.
Except you would be wrong. There are strikes, takedowns, weapon defenses, and throws within Bjj. Granted the striking is typically a set up for a takedown or throw, but its in there nonetheless.
BJJ striking is lesser than Karate's grapplingā¦ it's weapon defences are, well, far from optimalā¦ it's throws are minimalist and often a little sub-optimal in execution, and it's takedowns are simply a means to an end. Frankly, I don't consider any of these to be really dealing with those ranges the same way you don't consider Karate to have a real grappling range.
But you missed the point again. You make blanket statements about what is missing in other systems (which is pretty much always the one thing you guys deal most in, regardless of how much your system is missing as well), stating that they are missing "crucial ranges", and I'm pointing out that the same thing can be done with BJJ just as easily (if not more so). The aim is to open your eyes, and maybe get you to realise that your system is not the be-all end-all you keep trying to position it as.
In order to be good on the ground, we have to get people to the ground in the first place.
Yeahā¦ look, to be frank, I'm not overtly impressed by anything shown in that videoā¦ from the mechanical issues, the possibility of back problems and strain, the poorly done hand goshi, to the limited usefulness of many of the methods shown, and it's a good thing you guys go to a double leg more oftenā¦
Um again, what part of my statement doesn't jive with the article being discussed?
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From the article;
Not good. Not good at all.
For one thing, that's a different articleā¦ soā¦
For another, there is nothing that supports your ideas of what would or would not have "worked better"ā¦ but the main point is that you're missing how these events actually work in the real worldā¦ you know, not in sparring/rolling/tournamentsā¦