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Originally Posted by BigBrodieFan
I spar with grown men every night at Tae Kwon Do class. The older, well-trained upper belts will go out of their way to take it easy on me, but the younger, lower belts will do just the opposite- punch and kick as hard as they can. It's definitely made me much more effective and confident when it comes to sparring, I was extremely afraid of it when I started six years ago. Men hit WAY harder and are extremely more powerful than women. I am almost 6 ft and about 145 lbs and even boys who are often way shorter/same weight as me can knock me back. I have had a fractured hand, a broken foot, and a few cracked ribs in the past few years, all from sparring men who accidently hit too hard. I never had any sort of injuries from sparring women.
Point is- man vs woman (in most cases) is really not a fair fight realistically. If a guy is going to take a slap from a girl I think he should be able to slap her back. However, I think that men have to be aware of excessive force and aware that they are probably much stronger than a woman in most cases, and capable of doing more damage in a fist fight scenario.
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I was just thinking of a brother and sister at my daughter's TKD, She is about 15 and he is about 14. She is the lamest blue belt I have ever seen. When she spars other people she just looks around until the other person loses interest, super lame, and totally uninterested. But when she is sparring her younger brother she is all business. Just kicks the crap out of him. It looks like she seriously wants to hurt him. You'd never believe it was the same girl.