It sounds like maybe you and your sparring partner are simply taking turns. If that's the case, while that is certainly a way of sparring, and good for working on defense, it's hardly the only way. Sparring is more than simply trading techniques. It's about creating opening using feints and fakes, using footwork and body movement to avoid damage while being in a position to inflict your own, mind-gaming your opponent into thinking you're going to do one thing, then doing another. Actually, it has a lot in common with randori and rolling.
For the more intelligent side of striking, I suggest you look up fighter analysis by Jack Slack, Lawrence Kenshin, and Connor Ruebusch.
Because you are "learning" to spar wrong. You really aren't learning to spar your learning to flail around trying to remember what you have been only partially taught.
Learning that way you will either take WAY longer to be able to actually use what you "learned" if you are really ever able to. Your description is proof.
Learning to spar has to start very slowly to train your brain how to move and use what you learned. You slowly speed up only after it falls together slowly. Most you tube videos of "experienced" guys or black belts just show guys randomly flinging there limbs around with no damaging power. Just look at how many hits these guys land with no reaction from the guy getting hit. Learn to spar correctly and you can actually use what you are learning, do it the way you are now and never really advance.
In a real fight you wouldn't be able to counter each one of the person's moves. Some of them are interpreted on the spot according to the situation they're in (ex: they can swing 2 punches to your head and then one to your ribcage in the course of 2 seconds or less). It's random in fighting and there are so many different styles that you wouldn't be able to counter each one of them naturally. Especially with grappling, try countering a fast roundhouse kick to your face with a grappling technique... maybe but it would be hard.
how can you be grappler by nature there different styles of grappling this not even talking of doing joint or muscle locks... if you never trained in grappling you may conceive moves still doesn't make you a grappler... if you look at any thing as being useless then you block what to do in your mind... the reason anyone trains in different styles is to have less of a weakness...
What exactly are you asking?
Hi, i am grappler by nature and some time i am going on kickbox classes, we do light sparring and i dont understand why striking is so dumb? As much as i get it , I throw combos that i learned before and then he throws something and i am trying to counter it. So its pretty much me trowing combos, and him throwing combos. How can it be so dumb?
