John, once again, here’s the problem. Full contact sparring is a recipe for chronic injury from which you will likely never recover. Or death. That’s bad too. In fact all sparring is (in my opinion) poor training. Great sport, but poor training. Unfortunately, people think that training fast is the best way to get good at fighting, because it’s more realistic. That just isn’t true, train slow, so you can see and correct all the mistakes, and then you can train fast after you understand the technique, how to use it on the street, and how not to get hurt or hurt your partner in training.

When you train slow, all your flaws are apparent, and the better you get the more you see. When you correct them, you gain skill. It’s not about speed or power, it’s about staying alive, and if possible keeping your opponent alive. We don’t live in a dueling age, or a place where a full scale battlefield could erupt at any time, so you need to learn how to preserve life as well as take it. See both sides of the coin. Also, knowing when to run away from a fight is beneficial, or if there are too many opponents, take out the ones that are in your way to escaping.

Anyway, slow training will help you more. If you’re interested in anything else, then feel free to peruse the Ninjutsu page here, and see if you can find my comments. I post under a different name every time.

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