Evil_Gorilla Posted August 18, 2003 Posted August 18, 2003 Okay first off, this isint a post about shadowboxing, I do that alot as is... The thing im curious about is this, im normaly a right handed guy, I do everything right handed basicly. Wright, Talk on the phone, throw empty pop cans at the Refs at matches...everything with the right hand, except Fight. See I goto a mixed style Dojo (Karate, Kendo, TKD, Boxing), and my trainer, as good of one as he is, sense I started has always had me as a righty, its kinda prejudice in a way sense the whole set of boxers before now were all rights. Hell he even has a poster up saying Bear Boxers suck. Well a few times ago when I was sparing with my freind me and him were going good and he bet me $20 I couldn't knock him down by going southpaw. Well being the gambler I am, I tried the bet, what a big suprize to me, I was about 2 times better as a south paw. So anyways getting on here, is there any other freaks out there like me?, as in your right and fight southpaw, or left and fight standard. Or if you wanna coment on this freakish thing go ahead. "Wow nice move!"*SMACK*"But your to flashy"
Scorcho Posted August 19, 2003 Posted August 19, 2003 In Karate we learn to fight with both sides of our body. However, most of the time in sparring you fight one side forward. I have actually found that going southpaw can help a lot, especially against faster opponents, because I can use my more skilled right foot and hand to take away the speed advantage with better placed strikes, and then to set up strong blows from my left. It really depends on the opponent though. It also helps because some righties have trouble with southpaws. "The true master avoids the fight."Shodan - Uechi-Ryu KarateBrown Belt - Zen Budo Ryu JJ, Yoshinkan Aikido
AndrewGreen Posted August 19, 2003 Posted August 19, 2003 I'm a right handed south paw. MMA, not boxing though. But when I train boxing its strong side lead. Andrew Greenhttp://innovativema.ca - All the top martial arts news!
benedictbm Posted August 19, 2003 Posted August 19, 2003 i do everythign right as well except for fighting i fight oppisite as you do Evil_Gorilla. i do tkd so some of the fighting is different. but i can switch hit in baseball so maybe it has something to do with the way i stand in the batters box compared to my fighting stance..i dont know ...all i know i am way better south paw than i am the "normal right handed way"
Black Dragon Posted August 19, 2003 Posted August 19, 2003 In Martial Arts Sparring I use both sides, but I have noticed that in a southpaw stance I catch a lot of people off guard with a heavier (right) jab, or right hook. So recognize or be hospitalized Cuz literally on a scale from one to ten I'm 25.
cross Posted August 22, 2003 Posted August 22, 2003 Well im totaly screwed up. Hehehe. I write left handed and do most other stuff left handed. I kick a football with my right foot. And like Scorcho said. You learn to use both sides but prefer one. Has for me i fight in a right handed stance. It helps that im left handed because my lead hand can generate more power.
martialartist1 Posted September 8, 2003 Posted September 8, 2003 well you need to fight both sides to be good. though if you fight one side it can be good to, basically it depends on the individual owns fighting style. its like kickboxers fight is different to a muay thai fight, and boxing fight is different to a taekwondo fight. each fight has different fighters of their own fighting style. so its the indivual that counts, not style.
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