Does your gym instructor make you do this drill where you just shell up, wait for and absorb the other guy’s hits to you, waiting for your turn to give it back?

I find it really terrible. I understand it’s supposed to develop better resistence/reliable guard in situations where you are getting pressured, but I don’t really see the need to do it often. I don’t see him teaching drills to deal with pressure too and avoid getting caught into this situation in the first place.

I think he focus too much on pure raw defense with guard and accepting/absorbing the other fighters attacks and going to war (I see this as a last resort) rather than footwork, countering and evasiveness. This shit is very hard to the body and to the head as well. I’m a slender, tall guy with very long arms and I don’t see myself making this kind of defense the better use for me.