Tag Archives: sparring

Sep 15 2021

Upper Body Striking Only Beginner Sparring Drills | Self Defense For Women

Upper Body Striking Only Beginner Sparring Drills is a great way to just focus on your boxing skills and boxing sparring as well as focusing on adding elbows and palm strikes to your beginner sparring drills. You can work on offensive and defensive punches, palm strikes, and elbow strikes for mma, kickboxing, and self defense. Most beginners will feel more comfortable with hand strikes or upper body sparring as it will feel more natural as we were taught to use our hands more than our feet. Focusing on getting good with boxing skills will help you defend your head as well as learning to set up your kicks and knee strikes to the groin and legs of your opponent or assailant.

Sparring in itself is unpredictable as most self defense situations are. Martial Arts styles such as taekwondo, where you do a lot of sparring, are more practical for self defense because you aren’t just drilling with theory. You actually learn what sparring skills and self defense skills work for you. This is a key point we teach in our self defense for women workshops.

Master Jonathan Field

Sep 1 2021

Catching The Leg Beginner Sparring Drills | Self Defense For Women

Learn how to catch the leg in these beginner sparring drills helps you to control what kicks are thrown at you during sparring as you make your opponent question which kicks to throw. These beginner-friendly sparring drills also help you with your self defense skills as you will learn how to catch a kick and throw your attacker off balance. This will give you the opportunity to escape the situation. In sparring, it is common in various martial arts styles to catch the leg to set up takedowns and effective counter strikes.

Sparring in itself is unpredictable as most self defense situations are. Martial Arts styles such as taekwondo, where you do a lot of sparring, are more practical for self defense because you aren’t just drilling with theory. You actually learn what sparring skills and self defense skills work for you. This is a key point we teach in our self defense for women workshops.

Master Jonathan Field

Aug 18 2021

One Step Sparring Beginner Sparring Drills | Self Defense For Women

One-step sparring drills are great beginner sparring drills to start with for newbies to martial arts and sparring because they teach you specific defenses and counter strikes to specific attacks thrown at you in a controlled manner. You learn how to block certain techniques with specific blocks and evading techniques and counter with predetermined striking combinations. These are good for both sparring matches in your sparring class as well as for self defense. One step sparring teaches a beginner to develop their muscle memory by drilling their various punches and kicks. These sparring drills are used both for sparring applications and for self defense situations.

Sparring in itself is unpredictable as most self defense situations are. Martial Arts styles such as taekwondo, where you do a lot of sparring, are more practical for self defense because you aren’t just drilling with theory. You actually learn what sparring skills and self defense skills work for you. This is a key point we teach in our self defense for women workshops.

Master Jonathan Field

Jul 21 2021

Upper Body Versus Lower Body Beginner Sparring Drills | Self Defense For Women

In this video, the Upper Body Versus Lower Body Beginner Sparring Drills teaches you two different strategies for sparring. One is to use hand and elbow strikes only against someone doing only kicking. The second is the opposite. Learning how to defeat a punching-only opponent with your kicks. These beginner-friendly drills put you in specific situations you may choose not to put yourself into otherwise, therefore, forcing you to think and adapt to the challenge. This I both good for sparring matches in your martial arts class competition as well as you can use these strategies to defend yourself in a self defense situation.

Master Jonathan Field

Jul 14 2021

3 Quick Kickboxing Focus Mitt Drills | Part 7 of 12 | Self Defense For Women

3 Quick Kickboxing Focus Mitt Drills you can use in your next fitness or self defense training session. These 3 quick Kickboxing focus mitt drills are a good for developing self defense striking skills while getting in some great training with a close friend or loved one. With practice, you will develop good kickboxing strikes that you could use to defend yourself or in your next sparring class. These strikes and drills are also taught in our self defense for women workshops and seminars. This video covers the lead leg roundhouse kick, cross, hook combination plus the switch roundhouse variation, and the lead leg double roundhouse kick variation.

Master Jonathan Field