Might want to keep your ears open and get reinforcement if you are uncomfortable of being the only one complaining if you are planning on telling Sensei.
You need to talk to the instructor about this really. Its his insurance that will be footing the medical bills if you get hurt. I have testified in two cases where something like this happened or was allowed to get out of hand because someone did not reign someone in or just was stupid in their approach to teaching martial arts. A third case did not even make it to court and they instead settled out of court. The instructor should be monitoring this so talk to him.
You might also appeal to this guy and maybe he will let up-some will and some won't and you can always refuse to spare with him. In a good gym or school this is not generally allowed or tolerated much because it puts those training at greater risk of injury as well as increases the liability for the school's owner.
This almost smells like a troll. 2 weeks and sparring already? Every martial art I studied and know of will never let you spar or have physical contact of that nature. Secondly he is doing spin moves and kicking to the face on a newbie. Plus to work on technique it should be no more than 25% or very light contact.
Still this question smells of a troll.
No one trains or learns anything when they're injured.
You're wasting your time, money, and health on someone who is not following the rules. As a beginner, you need to be afforded the additional safety so that you can focus on the more basic and fundamental movements of what your style requires. In time, you will gain confidence in your abilities, and will be able to handle the stronger rigors of training.
That safety instructions are being ignored, and that the ignored safety instructions are not being noticed, suggests an extreme lack of oversight - a very dangerous situation, and someone is going to get hurt badly.
You owe it to your instructor to have him or her fix this.
If sparring is getting too strong, you have to give your partner feedback. Switch to no strength, he will probably follow, if not, tell him to take it easy.
If you think it's getting nasty, switch to no strength. Then slowly increase, until you find a comfortable level.
This strength negotiation is a natural process.
I would talk to your sensei. Is he more advanced than you? You should be soaring with like experienced. Actually at two weeks you shouldn't be sparring.
Tell the student to tone it down directly. If he's doing it unintentionally, he'll fix his issue. If he's doing it intentionally, then you either have to bring up your level to compensate or you need to find a different partner.
In most cases, if you see him begin to move his hips for a kick, step in at 45 degrees to the line he is taking. This reduces most of the impact and penetration depth. Like a whip, most times the speed and force of impact is at the very tip. Catch it near the handle or middle, and you get much less damage.
Kyokushin has an originally hard philosophy. But even if you cannot strike back at your maximum, you can improve your defenses and negate incoming damage more than you have.
The main idea here is that the harder people hit you the less sensitive to pain you become.Let go of fear, think of stuff that makes you angry.However, if you're really not comfortable with that, tell your sensei.
tell your sensei you want another training partner. he is not helping you in your training this way
I've recently taken up Kyokushin Karate 2 weeks ago and my sparring parter hits me too hard. My sensei told all of us to go at 50% strength so that we could work on our technique. Then, when the sparring begins, he spinning back kicks me in the Solar Plexis at full strength but I manage to tense up just in time. He kicks me in the head also at full force even though I went at half my strength. I'm afraid to hit him hard because I was scared that he would go even harder on me. Please help :(
