Sparring Drills

Sparring Drills

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Sparring Drills
  • Abid Benwali & Eric Santamaria - Reaction Drill

    Develop reaction time and work on a wide variety of techniques will this drill that uses a kicking shield. Your students will need to think fast to determine the proper spacing and technique.
    Pad Drill | Sparring | Point Fighting | Footwork | Partner Drill

  • Abid Benwali & Eric Santamaria - Hesitation Timing Drill

    Using a hesitation is an excellent way to throw your opponent off of your timing. Use this drill to help your students switch up the timing and make good decisions to help them win matches.
    Sparring | Point Fighting | Timing | Strategy

  • Abid Benwali & Eric Santamaria - Point Fighting Distance

    Spacing is essential to point fighting. Help your students get into that sweet spot where they can attack the opponent, but their opponent can't quite get them.
    Distance | Point Fighting | Sparring | Spacing | Defense

  • Mike Nebgen - Prearranged Sparring Drill

    This drill involves a choreographed, memorized sparring sequence that help students rep self defense techniques and work on focus and concentration.
    Distance | Timing | Footwork | Sparring

  • Juan Moreno - Getting to the Blind Spot

    This drill focuses on getting to the back side of the head following a side kick from your opponent. Set up the back side kick with a smaller kick to the inside on the body.
    Olympic TKD | Tae Kwon Do | Sparring | Paddle Drill

  • Juan Moreno - Front Leg Kick with Follow Up

    The front leg kick is a cornerstone of modern olympic Tae Kwon Do. These combinations will show your students how to follow up the lead leg side kick.
    Olympic TKD | Tae Kwon Do | Sparring | Paddle Drill | Kicking

  • Juan Moreno - Defense Stance Basics

    Defensive stances are often overlooked but are incredibly important due to the nature of modern sport Tae Kwon Do. This stance gives your opponent a small body, meaning there is less area to attack.
    Olympic TKD | Tae Kwon Do | Sparring | Defense

  • Juan Moreno - 2 Probe Kicks & A Power Kick

    This drill is great for all levels and works an essential combo to Tae Kwon Do sparring. You’ll put together side kicks, round kick and back leg round house kicks.
    Olympic TKD | Tae Kwon Do | Sparring | Paddle Drill | Technique | Fundamentals | Basics | Beginner | Kicking

  • Juan Moreno - Recognize & Respond Distance Drill

    This drill will help your students recognize their opponents' movement so they can respond by changing the level of their kick. The swiping motion of the kick should score to the head.
    Olympic TKD | Tae Kwon Do | Distance | Technique | Fundamentals | Basics | Beginner | Kicking | Timing

  • Juan Moreno - Drilling Kick Techniques

    These variations of individual techniques are not meant to be combos, but training sets to help your students get tons of reps.
    Olympic TKD | Tae Kwon Do | Sparring | Paddle Drill | Kicking

  • Michael Kramp - Ninja Tap

    This drill is a great way to train sparring without gear. Use minimal contact to work on reaction time and strategy.
    Kicking | Sparring | Reaction | Speed | Foot Work | Teens

  • Jadi Tention - Hook Round Kick Progression - Part 3

    The third step in this progression focuses on using power to break the guard of your opponent. The hook kick will be moving the hands out of the way, enabling the round kick to be a scoring technique.
    Sparring | Point Sparring | Point Fighting | Kicking | Power

  • Herb Perez - Front Leg Distance Drills

    These distance drills are very effective for controlling the spacing between you and your opponent through the lens of both offense and defense.
    Olympic TKD | TKD | Tae Kwon Do | Sparring | Paddle Drill

  • Michael Kramp - Plank Sparring

    The plank is designed to build speed and balance. Tell your students not to focus on power. Many different techniques can be applied to this drill.
    Teens | Games | Kicking | Sparring | Technique | Intermediate | Speed | Balance

  • Juan Moreno - Offense & Defense from One Stance - Part 1

    This mentality uses the boxing principles of performing all techniques from one stance that you are most comfortable with. Add movement to account for distance.
    Olympic TKD | Tae Kwon Do | Sparring | Technique | Fundamentals | Basics | Beginner

  • Juan Moreno - Offense & Defense from One Stance - Part 2

    This drill upgrades the idea of striking from one stance, now using double kicks instead of single kicks.
    Olympic TKD | Tae Kwon Do | Sparring | Spacing | Technique | Fundamentals | Advanced | Intermediate

  • Herb Perez - Progression Drills - Part 1

    A progression is any series of techniques that builds on the motion learned before it. This drill combines the round kick and the back kick, then expands to several more advanced variations.
    Olympic TKD | TKD | Tae Kwon Do | Sparring

  • Juan Moreno - Defensive Kicks - 4 Lengths

    These four techniques will establish four separate distances to protect yourself while sparring. Each of the techniques creates space for a round kick.
    Olympic TKD | Tae Kwon Do | Sparring | Paddle Drill | Technique | Fundamentals | Basics | Beginner | Defense

  • Michael Kramp - Elevator Kicks

    This drill will help your students develop better chambers, balance, and overall kicking technique while striking at three different levels.
    Balance | Kicking | Partner Drill | Paddle Drill | Flexibility

  • Herb Perez - Setting up the Back Hook Kick

    Use your knowledge of back kick to understand spacing for the back hook kick. Use a Kiyah to cue the students when to kick and develop proper timing.
    Olympic TKD | TKD | Tae Kwon Do | Sparring | Kicking

  • Michael Kramp - Push & Kick

    This drill emulates being pushed back by a kick in a sparring match, countering with multiple kicks.
    Teens | Games | Kicking | Balance | Sparring | Counter Attack

  • Justin Ortiz - Advanced Shift Back Fist - Open Stance

    The back leg is going to lead the way to step out of the line of the kick. The slight turn of the shoulders sets up a strong back fist.
    Hands | Sparring | Point Karate | Sport Karate | Point Fighting

  • Michael Kramp - Mirror Telegraph

    Use this drill to teach your students how to read and react to fakes and feints in sparring.
    Sparring | Partner Drill | Counter Striking | Teens

  • Juan Moreno - Scoring with a Back Leg Roundhouse Kick

    This drill will help your students land the very tricky rear leg round kick. Bait your opponent into a front leg kick, which opens up the body for the rear leg kick.
    Olympic TKD | Tae Kwon Do | Sparring | Paddle Drill | Technique | Fundamentals | Basics | Beginner TKD | Kicking