XxxtremeT13 Posted December 14, 2018 Report Share Posted December 14, 2018 So, Im trying to get an idea when its best to really start sparring? I have a few 18 and 19 year olds now and Im just trying to get some insight on when I should or when most of you start doing sparring training.... should I continue with my current secondary skill training until hes like 25 when hes gains really start to slow or should I consider implementing AM or PM sessions to sparring and the opposite to secondary training? Would this be a waist of skill gains from the young fighters by taking away 6 training sessions with coaches or could they still see a large amount of gains toward their primary skill and some up tick in their secondary skill too?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SavageMMa Posted December 14, 2018 Report Share Posted December 14, 2018 One thing I know is you should never spar in back to back training sessions. I usually keep all my sparring set to either all AM or all PM sparring sessions. If you spar boxing on a monday night than spar jiu jitsu tuesday morning, the tuesday morning sparring session always seems to take a slight hit in how productive it actually was and it gives my fighters a bigger hit to their stamina as well(I guess with perfect conditioning this may not be a problem). You should always train up the secondaries you want to make better faster, because bjj does improve a lot of other things i.e. defensive grappling, submissions, etc. But if you want your fighter to be a better submission fighter, you should implement a few submission offensive training sessions as well. It's kind of give and take, like you don't want your fighter doing a ton of muy thai if he isn't going to be a muy thai fighter, instead I would do clinch work with a coach and defensive striking then the muy thai will increase over time slowly but it won't give you skill points where yo don't need them. I would never do back to back sparring sessions if you do one Monday morning wait until Tuesday morning or night to spar again. hope this helped, sometimes I tend to ramble. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monsieur.Camara Posted December 14, 2018 Report Share Posted December 14, 2018 If you want to be a fighting manager you gonna need to spar a bit no choice really. Training managers will max secondaries as much as possible for a year , the super patient ones even longer. The current number one dude Coffey trained some of his granite chin projects from 2016-1018. You get a pretty huge edge that way but man I could never do that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakeF Posted December 14, 2018 Report Share Posted December 14, 2018 Primaries arent as important as secondaries/physicals when fighting. Aim to have those at least sens, even better if elite, before considering a heavy sparring schedule. You can add some boxing sessions earlier since they dont add useless secondaries, which would eat your skill cap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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