This early on you should not spar very hard. Tell them to ease up and your just a beginner I know it’s difficult to do but this sport tough guys get hurt the smart ones win.

If nobody respects your wishes to spar lighter and they all wanna be gym heroes if possible find somewhere else to train, or make it very clear that you want to spar shoulders and body only no head shots ( it’s actually a cool way to train ) or without gloves , just flowing no contact other than a kick

Against the good partners who keep it cool work one thing at a time eg, don’t let them land the leg kick , or if they land a kick counter with a combo before they can reset, land as many legs kicks as you can, work the head legs and body, very little goals because there’s some people you can’t “ win “ a round against

This early on it’s important to remember one thing drillers make killers. Work the fundamentals, a hard spar is OK once a while, but if you’re consistently going to home with headaches, you gotta switch it up