One thing that I often wonder is the difference on how to train techniques no matter what style. I will take 2 extreme examples and how I choose to do it.
Some styles I have been training, I learned a few techniques during training and spent most of the time perfecting the single pieces, sparring was either a seldom activity or it was none existing.
I have seen and trained in clubs were they don’t learn how to properly execute a technique and use all the time sparring.
We start with sparring and do oppositional training, when we encounter a problem we train the single element and remove the imperfection, standard AMOK! training, but we never spend time only perfecting a single technique or only sparring all the time, my goal is to try to emphasize the importance of combinations, chains of attack, or chains of defences by for example learning 3 escapes from a bottom position determined by the angle of the attackers pressure, you go for one escape and if it fails try to exploit his counter pressure to keep you pinned down, to return to a chain of attacks.
The main reason for my over emphasizing combinations is all the years training traditional martial arts, one of the last ones was Thai boxing, the coach teaches how to execute the single techniques and some times a combo with no idea behind it, like 1 high kick and 5 straight punches. The combos had no intention to creating a gap to get through with an attack, I could parry the combos easily and if the other training partner was an asshole, and believed that the problem was he was not using enough speed and power and tried to KO me by going to maximum force and intent, they learned what a poison elbow was and the pace was back to training mode and not to a world championship final intensity.
I would choose combinations that changes directions like fakes with blades, going from low to high, left to right, and vice versa. Have 2 to 3 combinations to create a gap in his defence, if the opponent parries all the attacks of the first combo, having a game plan that exploits that you know what his counter to your attacks are makes you a good fighter, it gives you an edge and you are one step ahead, the even better fighter is 2 steps ahead, as they exploit that you now have a preconception of his response will be and use it as a counter trap.
That is what makes fighting fun, when it turns into a human chess game and not only a contest of pure strength.
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