What is Sparring?
What is Sparring? Parents asked me this question all the time. I like to answer this question in this way. Most parents look for discipline, focus, confidence, and respectful children with strong self-control. They do not bring their children to Perry's Taekwondo Academy to make them more violent or to become bullies with martial arts training. I like to think we teach sparring in an understandable setting for their age. Our young students will fail if we teach only the physical part of sparring, not the character side. Without the character side, they may become more violent or what I refer to as "bullies without morals." First, we do not allow our students to spar Full-Contact at ....
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