How many people who join MMA gyms etc are afraid of sparring?

[Anonymous]

If you've been or attend an MMA or martial arts gym.

[AhGojira]

They just get scarred when they feel they have no hope of winning... When I use to wrestle we would go down the line from lightest to heaviest every practice and see who wins. When they got to me whoever won was scared and even the guys that were bigger than me were scared... I always won. so after a while it was hopeless and they knew they were going to get thrown around and dropped on their head. When the matches were more even, they tended to be a lot more confident.

[SinghSong]

Those who actually attend regularly? None, so far as I know. Those cowards who are afraid of contact and only care about adding the spurious claim of "I know MMA" all bail out within the first week or so.

[Lyndsielee666]

My boyfriend was in it for a while. He said everyone was worried until they all got slammed hard as fuck and realized it wasn't that big of a deal 😂

[Phoenix98]

I spar with a guy who practices MMA and he's a cage fighter in local tournaments. I don't see what the big deal is.

So you spill some blood get beaten up a bit part of fighting *shrugs*

[Anonymous]

Why would people be afraid? It's sparring not a full on match.