In Part One and Two of this guide, we looked at several things your training partners do to piss you off. Perhaps they do it on purpose, perhaps not, but you’ll have to deal with it one way or the other.

So what can you do?

A bunch of things actually and not all of them work with everybody. Sometimes you have to mix and match, other times nothing works and you skip to the bottom of this list of suggestions:  [Read more…]

In Part One of this guide, I mentioned my top-three annoyances when training with another practitioner. In this part here, we’ll look at some more gripes I have. Given the feedback (I asked for and received in spades :-). Thanks guys, keep it coming!) they seem to be pretty universal. So here goes another round of ranting, continuing the list from the previous part:

4. Endless counters. Bert mentioned this in the comments section and it ties in with #3 “They block the technique(s) you’re supposed to be learning.” But this time they go about it in a sneakier way. Instead of flat out resisting, they drag you into an endless counter series “If you do that punch, I can block like this. And if you then kick me, I’ll evade like this”. And it goes on and on. The reality these guys fail to see is that every technique has at least one counter. So of course you can always do something about it, in theory that is. [Read more…]