When sparring, what body part of the opponent should i be looking at to be able to react faster to his moves?

Question

Don't tell me to look at his legs or even his balls.

Answer 1

What do you mean by sparring? Boxing? In boxing you should look at the shoulder, that's where the punches start.

Answer 2

Chest area so you have a visual on the hands and feet since your eye sight looks down, not straight at the chest area.

Answer 3

you asked this questioin before but ill answer again you watch his chest/sternum. to do anything they have to move that. in the last one i explained why aswell but u can look that up im not writing it again.

Answer 4

his shoulders/elbows. dont look at the hands. those 2 places have to move first before anything else when u punch.  or look at his balls.

WELL CST u should be more bloody clearer. focus around the throat area and make sure u ware watching everything with ur side vision.

Answer 5

Most peoples eyes give away when and how they are going to attack, training should include not doing this. So you have the option of looking at their eyes.

However when in kicking range looking at head height will not allow you to see your opponents feet and the chest area will give a complete view of your opponent.

A trick I use sometimes when sparring, especially against someone who doesn't know me or thinks they are better than me, is to look down at their leg as if I am going to try a kick and as I move, punch them in the head.

Answer 6

Look at his eyes. He'll either look at where he's going to strike b4 he does it or if he's good he'll stay focused on ur eyes too so watch for changes in the pupils of his eyes b4 he strikes. hard to do at first but with experience its easy

Answer 7

You will get alot of varying answers here.  My Muay Thai instructor acutally covered this in our class today:

He told us to look at two things:

-the eyes

-the hips

We were practicing slipping punches and countering and he told us to always keep our eyes forward on the opponenets eyes as we slip.

You watch the hips because if someone kicks, they move their hips.  If they shoot in, they move their hips.  If they move period, they move their hips.

Football players are taught this as well when tackling running backs.  No matter how many jukes a running back throws at you, they must follow their hips.

Answer 8

look at his eyes cause that is a secret way to no wherethey will atack you next. eg they will look atyour stomach before atacking

Answer 9

I learned from my Sensei to always look and focus on your opponents throat. By doing so you will be able to see your opponents body and counter any sudden move that your opponent makes.

Answer 10

Soft focus on the suprasternal/jugular notch (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co... but it's not that simple.

Soft focus minimizes your focal area while increasing your peripheral area. Peripheral vision responds to movement much faster than focal vision. This allows you to see arm, leg, and hip movement quickly, but you need to train your reaction to become gut or instinctual.

Get hit. Get hit a lot. Get used to that "feeling" just before you get hit, then work to shift yourself off line of that incoming strike. You should learn to recognize incoming attacks with more than just vision, but hearing (what sound does the foot make when it shifts for that kick, or when the hips turn to throw that punch), feel (this will have more to do with your other senses sending impulses to your brain and through your body than any real feeling, but you'll recognize it when you train for it), etc.

There's something about getting hit that helps you get used to the sense data associated with attacks. But all these good feelings and sensations don't mean a thing unless you train yourself to respond to them without thinking. You think, you lose. You're already too slow.

Answer 11

Watch his chest and use your peripheral vision to see the attacks and moves he makes.