Sparring with Bigger Beginner

[Sharla]

I apologise for the misunderstanding this kind of stuff happens online.

Thats alright Chris - I have to confess sometimes I write something and then have to go back and edit it several times because it sounded bitchier than intended I forgive ya!

I'll bet you're incredibly hot when you dance.

Thanks Von but I actually don't rate myself as a dancer. There are 4 'kids' in my family - me, my younger sister and my two older bros. ME and my bros got the non creative, athletic and competitive genes and my younger sister hogged all the creativity genes - she's a belly dancer and no I won't post any vids of her because she's permanently an innocent 5 year old as far as I'm concerned

Having seen Sharla, Shes a lovely girl with a good attitude thats all you lot are getting.

Aww thanks Scrap CC

By the way it's good that you both leave it in the ring. How's everything progressing? How's her defense coming along, are her punches improving? How's everything else going with you, you should have an idea of what you're going to work on in your sparring sessions if you really want to makes some good progress.

Haven't done enough sparring since I first started this thread to know how much progress she's making there but doing pad work she's improving throwing punches moving backwards which she finds harder than moving forwards - so I guess that's a good sign.

As for what I'm working on with sparring the first thing is just getting back into it properly after coming back from injury. That's going OK.

Apart from that I found out last night my coaches are going to try to get me a match to fight in June (Yay! ) so I'll be working on visualizing (not easy being so damn uncreative) myself in front of a crowd etc so I'm better able to perform in that environment. In a lot of my competitive bouts I think I haven't been able to demonstrate everything I can do because of nerves etc.

I'll also try to finally have a more effective guard. Strange how little things make other things click - a more experienced guy was nice enough to spar with me the other week and told me I drop my right hand when I jab. I find it easier to hold a guard now if I keep that right up because I can make the transition from punching to holding my guard a lot smoother.