What do you feel?

[yat_chum]

What do you feel when you are sparring?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3nmjKvOADo

[Dvivid]

Fists punching me in the head.

[Inga]

I am always happy when I train kung fu, no matter what aspect. Sometimes it's layered under tedium, frustration, exhaustion or pain, but, it's there, and it's the driving force.

[Ralteria]

Fists punching me in the head.

We must be training the same style, lol.

[Inga]

haha well my head is usually okay, but that means I have a bad habit of keeping both my hands up too high, so I usually get nailed in the gut or sides. The other thing I feel during sparring is a sense of amazement. Regularly. In a real fight, I would hope to use one of the combos we develop and repetitively train in class, which (in my case) is designed to stun, temporarily confuse and hopefully maim enough that I have time to run like the wind. I would never be able to win a hand to hand fight, but I'm getting more confident I could get away with a minimum of damage. Course most of the sparring I do is purely playful, working on combos, testing reactions, bit 'o physical chess - what do I do next, what will they do next, trying to get familar with the process of thinking ahead, without thinking as it were. I suppose I mean learning to sense what an opponet will do next and already having the answer in store and ready to go. Much fun.