How come more fighters dont stand southpaw?!?

[Ben Vazquez]

It mostly just has to do with comfort level it can feel very awkward fighting with your dominant hand forward or back.

A lot of times you will see a grappler put their strongest side forward to help with take-downs and clinching and with their weak hand back they gain near equal striking power with their strong hand.

And on the same note you see strikers put their strong hand back to gain even more power in their strong side attacks and they are not as worried about grappling.


In my case I can fight with both stances but I fight completely different from them.....I'm right handed and my strong hand lead lets me use more spin kicks and elbows ect... and feels more comfortable wrestling with my strong hand forward.

My southpaw I can't use spins as well but I'm more comfortable clinching and my Muay Thai overall is cleaner but my wrestling attacks feel weird.


I attribute my own comfort level in each to my strong leg, With it forward I have a more stable plant to spin or drive for takedowns from while with it back my weak leg is my plant for those things and it doesn't feel as stable.

[Ben Vazquez]

;-P Oops I meant orthodox in that last part not SouthPaw first part is SouthPaw

[Brent Smith]

Im an ambi and fight southpaw. Its just alot more comfortable for me as opposed to orthodox. Ive had a few trainers try to convince me to switch to an ortho stance because its "better"

[stlnl]

Ambidexterity, true ambidexterity fighting, is a myth, if folks mean they are good fighting both orthodox and southpaw. Well I should explain that, I have seen folks who are mediocre on both sides, but I have never seen anyone who was really good on both sides.

[Isaiah Mendoza]

Ambidexterity, true ambidexterity fighting, is a myth, if folks mean they are good fighting both orthodox and southpaw. Well I should explain that, I have seen folks who are mediocre on both sides, but I have never seen anyone who was really good on both sides.

dude are you fucking joking? Anderson Silva, Takanori Gomi. Both fighters that if they fought southpaw or orthodox are equally good. Gomi kicked pulvers ass in orthodox even though he's considered a southpaw.

*facepalm

[stlnl]

dude are you fucking joking? Anderson Silva, Takanori Gomi. Both fighters that if they fought southpaw or orthodox are equally good. Gomi kicked pulvers ass in orthodox even though he's considered a southpaw.

*facepalm

I guess you dont know what I mean when I say really good. I mean, able to do everything equally from both sides. Those guys are good enough to switch stances as it suits them against high level competition, but against top end guys, with the fight on the line, they dont do it, they stick to what they are good at. Meaning just because their bad side is good enough to use it from time to time in a high end fight, doesnt, in any way, mean they are equally good on both sides, because even they, are not. Gomi had strategic reasons for fighting orthodox, mainly to hit that liver against Jens, and he was fighting a sliding Jens. He still fights Southpaw when its for all the marbles.

Face palm that my friend.

[Isaiah Mendoza]

they are both really good on both sides. That's why gomi was able to destroy pulver orthodox. He's not "mediocre" on both sides. He's really good. So is Silva. And Silva switches stances up all the time in fights, and ALL his fights have been top end since 2007.