Hell no. The variety of training partners is the whole point of being in a fighter gym. The only way I got better wasn't by just light sparring the other new trainees.. but getting tuned up once in a while by a ammy/pro.

As a long-time competitive Judo player, it's always been standard practice to pair you up in training and competition with partners on the same of similar level of ability, experience and size. Mixing it up in freestyle/open class sessions is of course encouraged at times to get a realistic measure of your relative ability. However, with much of the technical training, uchikomi (muscle memory work) and general sparring the practice of matching people on a similar level has often been found to be more useful in allowing for consistent improvement. Unless you are the instructor, practicing with people below you too much means you won't be challenged enough or leave your comfort zone. Likewise, practicing too much with people higher than you means that you may get defeated too easily, lose confidence and not learn anything. The higher rank may decide to go easy on you which gives you a false sense of confidence or worse an oversized ego, until you get a rude awakening. Kazuo Kudo (one of the the greatest Judoka to have ever lived and nigh-unbeatable in any weight class or grade, even in his senior years) emphasized that much of his success was due to practicing with partners smaller and less experienced than himself. Following that method, I have found that it has allowed me to experiment, expand my training horizons and stay out of the comfort zone. Because of the pressure, training with higher levels too much tends to make us revert to our 'money moves' every time, rather than trying something new. Jeff, your training philosophy makes a lot of sense and your results speak for themselves. Sorry for the essay.

We put handicap to ourself in my gym, like only using one type of offense it can be only jab or only one leg kicks against less experienced partner it's a great training, not many people are willing to do so unfortunately but my coach alwyas encouraged us to give ourself handicpa to upgrade our skills and it's a great way to become more creative when we only have one type of offense to use. For skilled partner, my coach always push them to fight more experienced fighter, it's scary and we get beat up a lot before seeing adjustment but that's it's also during these moment where people decide to stay or leave...i got myself ass kicked by experienced woman fighters...back home i was like WOW never got my ass kicked like this by a woman, it's a humbling experience to see that brute forrce can't beat good IQ fighting with skills...

I agree with sparring various levels of experienced partners. One teaches new things, others help you perfect these new things. Totally with you on this one Jeff!

And those who disagree clearly haven’t trained much in martial arts or combat sports!

I would say you mostly learn from partners at your level, where you can try things but also need skills for that. But yes, finally, you need every type of sparring partner. Light ones, old ones, muscular ones..

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