[Drilling without shin guards - do's and don'ts?]

Honestly I prefer it as I feel like it represents my kicks way more accurate and actually forces me to care about the form of my kicks, where as when i use guards I just go for max power and not form. It's all down to personal preference in the end but I recommend doing sparring and drills both ways. Double the practice double the reward right?

[Questions about chaining]

5 hours ago, Sylvie von Duuglas-Ittu said:

Shadowboxing. Lots and lots and lots of shadowboxing. That's what Yodkhunpon always tells me. You train the muscle memory of lower body working with the upperbody and landing off of kicks into upperbody techniques, etc. It's like dancing, but practicing the transitions between the upper and lower body as a way to create balance. If you go against a sparring partner who is pretty good at combining their punches and kicks, literally copy everything they do, strike for strike, for a couple of rounds. It's like the "repeat after me" game of learning a language in school. Worth a try.

 

8 hours ago, Tyler Byers said:

More drills or heavy bag work would be my recommendation. Get it flowing well outside of sparring before you try and take it into sparring.

Thank you guys so much. 

[How to fight evasive fighters]

I had some experience with this in my club while sparring. Sooner or later they run out of space and when they get cornered it's over for them. I would say just pressure the hell out of them. Check their kicks and reply back with some of your own. Also a fine strategy would be rushing them in between kicks or when you can see a opening. Just try lowering their guard with some body kicks of your own and make that opening appear. Good luck my friend

[Questions about chaining]

Hey guys so I'm fairly new to the sport, I've been training for about a year now. Anyhow whenever we do sparring sessions i either focus hard on the boxing part or the leg-kick part, how can I be sure to chain these two together and learn to use them both to my advantage, I'm about 6 foot 2 and 170 lbs, and I would say that my kicks are way more powerful than the boxing part. Thanks in advance.