Randori Training compared to Sparring ( your opinion )?

Question

(Randori is more anything goes including ground, Sparring is from my understanding only stand up?)

Answer 1

Randori has many meanings.

In aikido for instance (note that this is going on the terminology used in my dojo), there is jiyu waza (free technique) - meaning freestyle one on one. Then there is randori....

Randori is different (not to say better, just the distinguishing interpretation) in aikido in that randori is freestyle against multiple attackers (generally three to five) coming at you all at once - at least in my dojo, that's the common application of the term.

In different styles, randori means different things.

Randori literally means "controlling chaos" or "claiming freedom" meaning to go beyond technique and practice application of the art in a free-form, unprescribed setting.

Different arts certainly would have different contexts to which the idea would apply. There is no concrete definition - its more of a how would 'handling the unknown' manifest for a given art?

Answer 2

Randori is Japanese for free practice. Sparing is english for free practice. Tey are both the same thing. So Judo, JuJitsu and Karate would all say Randori. Allthough JuJitsu is all ground Karate is al stand-up and Judo is both. Muay Thai, Tae Kwan do, Sambo and Pankratian all come from other Countries so they have other words in their respective languages for randory/sparing. Bottom line they all mean the same thing "Free Practice"
And Judo, Sambo, and other similar grappling/Wrestling arts have the highest levels of Randori over most arts.

Answer 3

I think you are just playing with words.

sparring is subject to the terms you are using it just like the word "s hit".

I can say: "you have some s hit on your shoe" or I can say "I feel s hitty"

or "i have to take a s hit" they are all the same word- different meanings different context.

If I'm "sparring" in a boxing class- then boxing sparring is obviously boxing rules.

If I'm sparring in a muai thai class it means that,

If I'm sparring in an MMA context- it means mma rules

If I'm sparring in a WMA school it means wasters to the head (or hockey helmet) or whereever else you can strike- plus additional rules on grappling and strikes.

If I'm sparring in a ninjitsu class it means I'm sitting on my *** with the rest of the LARPers watching naruto or american ninja 6 on tv.

Answer 4

Well its kind of the same thing, just depends on the style or school. In my style its anything goes as long as you don't kill your opponent.