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Hi everyone , I would love tips and advice from you awesome people espcially those of you who may have been in a similar situation. I am 5'2 ( 160cm ) tall , ( on a good day ) and i am 57kg ( 125lbs ) . I spar with a lot of different people , but there is one I am having trouble with making an impact on , she is 6'0 ( 182cm ) and 100kg ( 220lbs ) . Her stamina is quite poor so I do a lot of moving around to tire her out , but as far as hits go all I manage is lower leg kicks and lower body hits. I also spar with the trainer who is 6'3 ( 192 cm ) he is roughly 85kg ( 187lbs ) , and I feel like I am sparring with a pair of knees lol ! Yes the sparring is all good fun and just light hearted , and not to be taken too seriously , but when I get the ring to start the sparring I already feel defeated , and I really don't know why I bother. I always let my apponent set the pace and then I take it from there. I need hot tips for some great combinations please. :thanks: :thanks:

I feel you. I'm smaller than 80% of my opponents in fights also. When I spar with these bigger guys I used to get really frustrated because I felt like I should do better, that I can't do anything I want to do, etc. Then I sparred someone smaller, which I'd never done before. A kid who is maybe 7-8 kg smaller than I am, which is a size difference I'm usually facing as the smaller person. Suddenly I could do anything I wanted to do. It opened my eyes to the fact that I hadn't been giving myself credit for the challenge of facing bigger people. And as the bigger person in that sparring session, I certainly didn't look down on my partner and think, "wow, he sucks," the way I was thinking about myself when I can't do what I want to do. So, give yourself credit. It will be less frustrating. And go after the body. All my body-shot practice is against the huge ones at my gym because trying to hit their heads is like trying to dunk a basketball.