Kajukenbo difference between Defense technique and fighting?

The real truth is that the Kajukenbo sparring is not the worst part of Kajukenbo. Yes, the sparring is not fun, but there is other stuff that takes place in a Kajukenbo school that we can`t really talk about. Stuff that takes place that instructors do not really acknowledge in their websites, interviews and articles. There is other stuff that requires a lot of courage to participate in, because of the high injury risk. At the end of it, you are thankful that nothing really seriously bad happened to you in the workout. If you train in Kajukenbo, you have a non-verbal agreement to participate in the other stuff that we can`t really talk about in a open forum.

To answer your question, the sparring is just to develop timing, there are other techniques to develop your defensive skills. It is participating in those other techniques that test your courage in a simulated real life situation. Yes, there are safety rules, but Kajukenbo safety rules are a bit loose. There is an agreement to not deliberately do anything to your training partner ( because they`re your buddies ) that will prevent him from coming back to train next class. But sometimes, things get out of hand.

There is MUCH more to it than that. Yes most Kajukenbo classes use medium to hard contact while sparring and the sparring tends to look chaotic, however you should be working on the applications that you have been practicing. That is what they were intended to combat, someone that is intent on causing serious injury usually by brute force.

It should be controlled even if it doesn't look like it. For any application from ANY martial art to be effective it has to be reflex. Developing a reflex takes time and many repetitions both in drills and use. If all you are practicing is a brawl with no technique that is what will manifest when you actually need it.

The hard contact is a philosophy that is intended to get you used to being hit, hitting an opponent, and using the various grappling techniques against a resisting opponent moving at speed. The most common mistake in this type of sparring is moving into it before you have developed the skills necessary to use the applications in your style. Once you do that it becomes habit to just brawl. Kajukenbo is NOT the only classes that can make that mistake.