Sparring is the hardest aspect of training to coach and the at the same time the easiest. It is an essential part of training. You cannot do a combat sport unless you are sparring. If you don’t spar, you are only doing the sport for fitness, and you don’t know fitness unless you spar. Avoiding sparring or saying you do Muay Thai when you don’t spar is ridiculous. Sparring is the only way to improve, to learn, to test your skills,