Some Sacrifices

There’s a world of difference between tournament sparring and kickboxing. In tournament, we make light contact. In kickboxing, you can hit as hard as you want.

It’s no surprise that the defensive choices one might make in kickboxing are fairly different from the choices one might make in tournament sparring. Tonight we played with a very conservative cover – hands up elbows in and chin tucked. It’s certainly not the only choice one could make in a kickboxing match but it is a fairly good one in terms of not getting knocked out.

The fun part was switching from this very closed cover to the wide open and mobile cover that can work in the tournament game. Hooray for contrast.