What are the odds I'm sparring too hard?
I've been training muay Thai for like 4 years. Only started sparring in this new gym a couple of weeks ago. I started off just touch sparring. Some people in this gym really don't wanna spar so they just go touch and I do that with them. Others go kinda medium and I'm attempting to keep the same power.
Now, I've noticed that the people I try to match with power sometimes try to avoid me. My honest to goodness analysis is that my punches are more accurate so feel more painful and they just don't want none of that. I'm mainly landing counter punches the whole round when they leave themselves open by throwing barrages at my shell.
The other option is that I'm just going too hard, and they don't want to escalate either because one of us will get hurt (they probably think they're gonna hurt me if they go too hard and they don't want to or vice versa)
I am definitely not going full power, always pull punches to the point where sometimes the face punches are just taps to the face and not even punches, but sometimes when there's an exchange or I stretch my arm because they're far away it might connect hard (though from the feedback I feel from the glove, it's nothing crazy). No loud sounds either so half the time I don't even know if I connect at all.
I don't feel like I can lower the intensity without getting overwhelmed by my sparring partners either.
Other notes:
I never go hard against someone first. All the new people who are too scared to spar enjoy touch sparring with me and avoid the other people in class.
We're all noobs. None of us have a single amateur fight.
Obviously recording and taking a look at the playback will answer it but that's kinda frowned upon.
I could ask the coach but I won't see him until next week and this is kinda eating me up right now.
I hope this doesn't come off as very egotistic. I'm just saying what I feel to hopefully get accurate responses in return. Thanks.