sparring

__**The Just of It.**__
Sparring. To spar in the dictionary is to nastily argue. To us it is to fake fight. Keep each other safe and have fun. Sparring begins for you when you become a camo belt. That's why our silly nick-name for camo belt is Fresh Meat, because we have fresh people to battle with. It is fun to spar camo belts. It wasn't fun to be one, in fact, it was terrifying. But now I know that we all work to keep each other safe and that no one would purposely hurt another person. Being is sparring is very scary at first because you don't know what to expect. But after you get the hang of it you can have so much fun! Legal targets are; right before the seam under the arm pit and all over the front of the chest pad, you can punch and kick here, and any kicks to the face or head are legal.



__**Gear**__
When we spar it is very dangerous so we have to wear protective gear. We have a helmet and a face shield on our head. In our head we have a mouth guard, that is to keep us from breaking our jaws if someone hit us in the face. That is also what the face shield is for. We also have a chest pad. The chest is a legal target so we have to have protection there. We also have hand pads so when we punch people if you hit too hard it doesn't hurt the other person. We also have foot pads so that if we kick someone it wont hurt them. Hurting people while practicing is wrong.