Sparring If you’re 40 or over do you spar?

[shu80]

I am 44 and will start sparring soon
I am looking to take private lessons from two instructors and start sparring with both, so that I can get some variety

 

[aerius]

Mid 40s, I've had enough concussions so I only spar with my daughter or a long time friend of mine who's a coach at a MMA & grappling gym. I don't train nearly enough to mix it up with the young bucks these days.

 

[SandisLL]

Isn't there a video of you sparring with a young guy who tried to cheap-shot you, and you put him down with single low kick?

Young guys in some cases is easy to get down, especially if they are doing predictable stuff and attempting certain high kicks....even without low kick.

Ofc if partner does predict what stuff young guy will do.


I had to see for example one instructor who lowed to torture some young guys... if they didn't liked him. Not for video, this also was approx 20 years ago...

Literally knew that guy is friendly and relatively soft in gym but might get into mad mode in drills if these are done in natural environment not in gym.

So he knew that guy A will be brutal here ... and does have good defense vs certain attack methods.
Definitely also that he will ( unlike in gym ) turn drill on hard surface with natural " dressing " into ....real fight.

This ended with instructor without this job.

All these high kicks and low kicks are maybe panacea vs noob but if opponent does have clue what you might do ...then prepare that some attack attempts will not be effective and there instead of easy solution will be fight...

 

[Romulas]

I don't spar for real anymore. I'm 42 and still in phenomenal shape and I don't have a problem mixing it up with any of the younger guys in the gym but injuries take way too long to heal.

Concussions and head trauma also scare me. I've had about a dozen between landing on my head snowboarding, car accidents and getting clipped in sparring/fights.

I also recently got a septoplasty and rhinoplasty (for second time) and can breathe well for the first time in a decade.

 

[Khaosan]

I don't spar for real anymore. I'm 42 and still in phenomenal shape and I don't have a problem mixing it up with any of the younger guys in the gym but injuries take way too long to heal.

Concussions and head trauma also scare me. I've had about a dozen between landing on my head snowboarding, car accidents and getting clipped in sparring/fights.

I also recently got a septoplasty and rhinoplasty (for second time) and can breathe well for the first time in a decade.

Damn, living the dream.

 

[Travis Alexander]

I spar a couple days a week. In the gym 6x a week. Give highly competitive pros a run for their money… that shit is like the fountain of youth. We aren’t going full throttle but we get it in.

If any of you come to LA you can find me at Fortune Boxing 6x a week at 10am just ask for me always down to move around.

 

[Romulas]

Damn, living the dream.

Breathing through your nose while you sleep is life changing! Like driving a rolls royce

 

[WhiteMousse]

Only jiu jitsu. I don't do kickboxing anymore

 

[Trabaho]

I spar a couple days a week. In the gym 6x a week. Give highly competitive pros a run for their money… that shit is like the fountain of youth. We aren’t going full throttle but we get it in.

If any of you come to LA you can find me at Fortune Boxing 6x a week at 10am just ask for me always down to move around.

Right attitude

 

[RemyR]

41 and still spar pretty often.

Biggest change I've made is now if I'm sore I'll skip a round or just "nah not today" and take the day off to focus on something else. My comp days are over and I don't have the Wolverine healing factor anymore that we all had in our 20s. No sense in me getting hurt which would carry over into my actual job.

 

[Burd]

37 and last time I sparred i was concussed for weeks. Some dudes just have no class

 

[Long Dark Blues]

Turning 43 in October, been sparring consistently in kickboxing all these years. Right now only twice per week, one hard day and one light day.

Only spar twice a month pure boxing, usually Saturday mornings.

Jiu-jitsu is where I've been backing off of the sparring. Its the one thing I find really hard to recover from while dieting and stil lifting. Mostly just flow roll and let the lower belts put in their work. Hard sparring maybe once a week.

 

[shorinryu86]

Controlled Sparring, not CTE Sparring.