Free-sparring
About free-sparring
Free-sparring a type of sparring where you test your martial art fighting skills against an opponent's skills in a friendly contest under controlled conditions designed to lessen the chances of injury. If cannot hold your own in a free-sparring match, you will probably not stand much of a chance of defending yourself in a self-defense situation.
Free-sparring lets you familiarize yourself with facing larger, stronger, higher skilled opponents and what may be required to defeat them. Everyone imagines how great a fighter they are; free-sparring lets them see if their imagined skills are as great as imagined.