Quote Originally Posted by jahmez View Post
I'm only a beginner and have only sparred a couple of times but this doesn't look fair. This is what it would look like if one of the actual competitive boxers at my gym was sparring me 100%! Your opponent doesn't even look fit enough to spar. He looks so unconfident. Looks like a guy who just started sparring after spending a couple of months on the bag. I've seen guys spar who actually fight and he doesn't look like one of them.

Sparring isn't about it being fair, it's about learning. On Wednesday I sparred a 13 yr old girl her first time in the ring. My coach put her in with me because he figured I'd have the best self-control as she weighs about 80 lbs soaken wet and was quite afraid.

As it turns out, she did pretty good and kept asking me to not take it easy (lol) and I finally at one point gave her the lightest tap I could muster. And she went down like a shot duck! hahaha

Oh well. I hear she is telling the story at her school about it, how she went a hard round and got KO'd but will kick my ass one day. So it's all good.