Sparring heavier opponents

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let us know how you go with it

So I think you made me think of a few things which helped in sparring last night. I only had one person to spar so I guess I'll get more of an idea of how it's going over the next few weeks.

I think it went well - or at least I made a start on correcting my lack of pace. I really enjoyed going fast and since I forewarned my training partner who also wanted to work on speed anyway I didn't get my head completely removed!

The double jab seems to work well defencively. I have been in the habbit of only throwing one punch at a time defencively and I'm not sure why.

I'm still struggling a bit to launch a combo offensively against a bigger person without walking into a jab myself which makes me think that maybe I allow too many pauses to occur in the round.

I think against a bigger person it might be more important to eliminate their resetting opportunities since as you said Salty i need to use angles but it's easiest to create those off of their attack. Thoughts on this anyone?

Also maybe because of some of the drills we use in our gym I'm in the habit of moving back from the first punch of a combo assuming my opponent will move foreward with a second and I'll sidestep that one. It only just occured to me how bad this habit is since sometimes they may only throw a single punch and instead of moving sideways I've just moved back and set myself up to have a hard time getting in again.

We often use drills sidestepping just single punches but if I don't know what they're going to throw in sparring (like i do in drill work) - I won't do it. I need to practice side stepping the first punch of a whole combo and staying in a bit more i think.

One thing I can say for us both though is it got a little messy! I'm thinking I have to practice sparring fast just to have balance doing it. I think when I move around fast i might move my head too far sometimes without my feet too.

Last night I was just moving around letting a little (only one smaller than me in the gym) begginner girl chase me (not punching her back) and she stepped on my foot and sent me flying halfway across the ring! Wouldn't have happened if I was balanced properly!