Sparring without instructor

[SimonM]

You don't learn in sparring.

I beg to differ.

If you don't train hip throw, there is no way that you will be able to use your hip throw successfully in sparring.

You don't learn everything from sparring but you won't finish learning the hip throw until you ditch the compliant drills.

[Faux Newbie]

I beg to differ.

You don't learn everything from sparring but you won't finish learning the hip throw until you ditch the compliant drills.

I agree with YKW's basic point. You don't change up your game during full sparring against equals too much, and therefore have a very limited window to learn WHILE sparring, but much to learn from post session.

[YouKnowWho]

I beg to differ.

You don't learn everything from sparring but you won't finish learning the hip throw until you ditch the compliant drills.

If you define "learning" as "developing" + "testing", then I agree with you there.

You may learn what mistake that you have made in sparring but you may not learn how to fix it. For example, if you just move back from your opponent's punches, you may never learn how to move yourself to be outside of your opponent's striking path. Where will you be able to learn that? In your class of course.