I don't do, and am not terribly interested in doing single point sparring, however I think it's original intention in Karate was to provide a safe way to do full/hard contact sparring. That you would fight until the first person landed a real solid hard strike and then stop and then continue thus making it a bit safer
Here's an example of what it should look like
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?doc...8522661&q=goju
some nice knock downs starting around the 1.30 minute mark
As was posted in another thread here is what point sparring has generally become.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4pTNRL2B00
Over protected and hyped up tag.
Here's an example of what it should look like
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?doc...8522661&q=goju
some nice knock downs starting around the 1.30 minute mark
As was posted in another thread here is what point sparring has generally become.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4pTNRL2B00
Over protected and hyped up tag.
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