1. Are you creating habits? Rituals?
2. Are you aware of your intent and does that intent relate to violence?
3. Do you allow the threat to enter our space for the sake of training? Do you allow the threat to assume a position of either or both a physical and psychological dominance for the sake of training?
4. Do you feel that the intensity of the training session is directly related to violence? Does it feel real? Does this seem like a natural feeling?
5. Do you realize that your martial art in essence is about doing damage, i.e. break bones, tear ligaments, crippling or possible killing another human being? Is your sparring take this mental aspect into consideration?
6. Do you realize due to training constraints and rules that you are training to "not hurt" as well as "hurt" in the many reps done?
7. Do you realize that sparring is NOT a fight simulation?
8. Do you spar with threats much heavier than you? With and without weapons? In places that are similar in environmental settings in lieu of the clean, spacious and unobstructed environment of the dojo?
9. Do you experience getting hit, hit very hard, frequently in your training?
10. Do you experience getting hit and hitting a moving and non-compliant threat?
11. Do you realize and fully understand fighting/violence hurts, a lot?
12. Do you train to surprise, intensity, flurry, chaos, etc.?
13. Do you know, understand and consider that your safety gear does not indicate what will be vulnerable to injury in a violent encounter?
14. Are you "use to" taking and giving hits? Do you consider this as a special ability in your MA system?
15. Does your training/sparring build courage?
16. Does your sparring/training/practice encourage moving and controlling the body, i.e. both yours and the threats?
17. Does your sparring encourage you and enforce your confidence in handling threats that far outweigh you? Does your sparring ignore weight classes in training?
18. Do you realize in violence that moving well and controlling a body are to promote "escape or disabling?"
19. Does your sparring consider "bad guys and weapons and obstacles" are important to understand and train for in violence?
20. Do you understand and consider in intent the flaws with non-contact and controlled-contact vs. violence and violent encounters?
21. Does your sparring teach you to be "relaxed," "to know exactly what the threat would do or where he would shift to attack," and do you "know when you are safe and know exactly what to watch for should the threat move or try to move?"
Pardon any omission and mistakes. This is an effort to convey some important information while initially encoding it into my brain. I do expect that encoding to be changed as I get feedback and review the material. Please access the article by Sgt. Rory Miller and let me know if this resonates or not. I would appreciate it as a learning experience/goal.
Normally when I extract quotes or redact information like this I try to add my thoughts and theories but in this instance it is too new as to a perspective so prefer to wait until I get feedback and comments to validate or provide adjustments. To really get it, you have to read the Chiron Post - maybe two or three times.
Bibliography:
Miller, Rory. "Values in Sparring." October 13, 2011. Chiron Blog. 13 October 2011.
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