Navigating sadistic heavy hitting sparring partners as a noob, any advice?

[Youngblood]

Yea Andre, a conversation before a spar can and should help. But things can still go sideways. I'll elaborate a bit. Last year I physically grew a metric fook ton. Naturally. Like grew 3 inches and gained 40 lbs. So most of my regular sparring partners who are well-skilled I had be conscious of it and just take the power down a notch or two and it went off splendidly.

Where the problem was was with newer boxers of near the same or approximate size,but not skill level. They'd be all nervous and shit. Be like, "Go easy on me man!" So you do. Then as soon as the bell rings their nerves take over and they run over and start trying to take your head off lol. And non-skilled or not, that can still hurt. So you let one fly and drop em...and feel bad.

So really, the newer the person, the slower the pace needs to be. Like, yea, good communication before hand, but also whoever is running the show needs to be ready to step right in and slow things and control those spars more than anything. It's harder to do when you're in there getting fed.