I have to admit that while I know it's good to practice sparring with intensity sometimes and when things are working well it's fun - i always enjoy touch sparring - no matter how much of a goob I might be. I CAN laugh at myself when I mess up in touch sparring but it's not funny in normal sparring!

I've been trying to come up with more creative ways to keep things fresh in partnerwork and sparring recently but I'm not sure of how to do this with distancing since by now I know my training partners too well to be able to practice my distancing with them as if I've never sparred them before.

The only thing that was kinda weird I have tried for this is having one person aiming to work mostly on the inside and the other outboxing only so we are both constantly battling to work at a different range - we swap roles several times within the round. Does that sound like it will help anything? Can you suggest another simple exercise Scrap - or is it the kinda thing that's too difficult to explain quickly in the forum?