I've also recently learned quite a bit of people don't like boxing, kickboxing, sparring at at all because they see it as super violent. I never actually really saw it that way? And in my last spar I got hit so many times in the head because I totally was sucking at blocking. (I do find high school boys to be harder opponents that women my own age lol!) But to me & how we spar in my dojo, it's not about whaling on someone. We hit hard, but it's not about that. It's about skill, combinations, etc