sparing again last nite was sparing yet again,and this time the tricks paid off as did a better conditioned neck.tricks were surprisingly easy to pull off, many times i faked a left kick and my opponet was baited and fell for it, sometimes it worked better than i thought and yet it still proved to be work. had a young dude from the hood in the gym, he hit real hard ,too hard for friendly sparing, got warned and almost asked to leave the ring.of course he wasn't wearing any head gear so i was told body only... he hit hard but only used muscle, so in the end he hit so so ... was too tense and took it too personal. needs better to knock someone out at his rate he will be a second rate fighter at best.although i learned a good strategy, forget your head gear and they will be told only hit the body..that sucked but i learned that it is hard to score on just a certain target but far from impossible.and so gratifying when ya do