Quote Originally Posted by Clubber
Quote Originally Posted by Trainer Monkey
Feur and I have been competing against each other in one form of martial combat or another the entire time we've been together.
Wether the SCA or sparring
Sooner or later we'll hit eachother with shots you could go to jail for,and then it just escalates.
We dote over eachother the rest of the time,but if you puts sticks in our hands,or gloves on our hands,all hell is breaking loose.
Anybody else deal with this,or is it just us?
That's the sport martial arts for ya.

Back when I was in karate class, if I was technique sparring and I accidentally landed one of my shots too hard, or my opponenet moved into my shot while I was throwing hit and got hit a little hard, a quick "sorry about that" would help prevent any anger from escalating. Of course, that was just an hour-long karate session, it wasn't anything serious or competitive.
To an extent you just hit on why its allways the 3rd
For the first two rounds we'll say things like "Was that a little much?"
By the 3rd we're both hitting our groove,and are just thinking about the task at hand more then anything.
That and we've allways been highly competitive