i have been trainign for a while now, today was the first time in the ring for a spar, i thought it was cool that all that i've been taught over 4 months came to me without even thinking, especially regarding footwork and/on multiple jabs. i liked getting popped, there's no sustitute for learning by getting popped in the nose or back of the head. my trainer's a good guy though so we had more fun than anything else. i even took a couple of his knees to the balls. lol. I'll step it up a notch with every opportunity. I wasn't about to lay out an old man and he wasn't about the to have a heart attack trying to lay out a young man! to that end, i didn't even throw a 1-2. just jab jab clinch kind of stuff. good fun. (except for taking the nose shots.... but i did get him back a couple times... i even stopped to say, "paul, y'ok?!" to whch he replied, "hey, it was a good shot!"