Any opnions on fighting a south paw. I'm fighting one in about a month, he's kinda wild from what i've seen and unorthadox. I have some strategies but was just wanting some diffrent opinions. thanx!!!
I don't mind fighting southpaws I am tall for my wight so I can just Jab over the top of their lead hand.
Also, standard, keep circling to your left to nullify their power shots.
In addition to what CockneyBlue said about circling left, I would also say to work a looping left hook to throw over the lead right hand, a straight right, a straight teep with the rear leg, and a right leg kick to the inside of the right leg.
The straight right can be a good body shot, in addition to being a head shot, if you remember to protect yourself and watch out for the knee.
You can also pull off a good slip to the outside (your left) and knee to the gut if you time it right
This is kickboxing rules by the way, no knees.
Retard, I take it no Leg kicks either then.
Don't switch to southpaw, why would you want to change from the position you are most comfortable in.
If you stay outside his lead foot, he can't get any power on you and you can really power to his body
I was told that if you fight someone who's dominant hand is different from yours, you should keep your lead foot outside of his
I'm a southpaw. It's the right hand that worries me. It seems like every time I throw a left cross, I eat a right in return. If you can learn to time that...
Anyone have any tips for dealing with that?
control the angle h20. keep your left foot outside his right.
We were working a new combo last night. Worked pretty damn good for me. I would throw a jab cross, but on the cross I would dip my head way down and out to the right and come back with a body hook combo. So ti was actually a jab-cross-body-hook combo. worked real nice.
BIC
No offense BIC, I know you got years of experience on me and all, but I think you're backwards on that.
As a southpaw, WaterDragon needs his right foot (forward foot) outside of the other guy's left foot (forward foot). Basically this disable's the orthodox guy's lead hand, and puts h2O's cross on a difficult angle for the o guy to catch.
If he angles with his left foot outside as well, he's bound to be square or even straddled and I don't know that it'd buy him anything.
H2O Dragon
Are you getting nailed with the counter cross before, after, or during your cross?
If it's before- you probably need to make sure you have the good angle outside his lead leg; and to make sure you put some decent effort into your lead. If your angle's not good, he'll be negating your lead hand, thus making it hard to hide your power shot behind your lead shot.
If it's during- you can either modify how you throw your cross or use some fakes to mess with his counter. You can modify your cross by maybe throwing a more shielded version, making sure you're coming from the right angle on the footwork (outside the lead), or modifying the angle you present (ie that drill you mentioned. You can mess with his counter by faking to get him to commit to the counter, or to at least throw off his timing for it.
If it's after- that drill of throwing the cross at an awkward angle so your head's not there sounds like a good one. Fakes can work for this as well- getting him to throw his counter or mess up his timing. If you know the counter's coming, then you know he's giving you an opening- you can take advantage of that with a counter of your own. Maybe fudge the cross to get him to counter, roll under it and counter with overhand left. Fudging being a not-so-comitted punch, not the same as a fake because it still shoots out, but basically trying to draw out his counter- can work with the fake as well.
I'm a southpaw too. So all this stuff is personal experience. I know my logic may be flawed, but at least I'd be paying for it alongside anybody who takes my advice. lol
He catches me on the way back. I'll throw the left and as my hand comes back, he's coming right over the top with his right.
What I'm doing is not using enough head movement or playing my angles correctly. So I'm standing squared up and throwing the cross which gets me slaughtered every time.
We're working on it though. I'm working a lot of pivoting off the jab and a lot of throwing a jab, ducking down into the body shot and the cross into the body shot. I feel a lot better with those.
Thanks for the info though, I'm gonna play with what you posted.
Anything for a fellow KFO-er.
-Bmore Banga :-P
As a southpaw, WaterDragon needs his right foot (forward foot) outside of the other guy's left footyep. that's exactly what I meant. got my feet mixed up!
H20, sounds to me like you are not bringing your hand back quick enough.
lol, that too!
leave it to the Cockney to smack me in the face with the obvious (ron jeremy stylez)....