Sparring as a Southpaw: Switching Stances and Switching Styles
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What I really like is how intense this sparring is, but you're not trying to actually knock each other unconscious.
Idk it's kind of rare
We ramp up intensity gradually in 2 month cycles. This is not the _hardest_ we go, but after this practice we reset back to light and friendly.
Good positioning, movement, and patience from Natalia.
Its always hard fighting a whole round from your opposite stance, but its definitely useful to learn.
Perfect I’ll need these skills when going Black Friday shopping!
Woah, Natalia is amazing! Even as a complete novice I can tell her technique is beautiful
Natalia’s right hand to delayed right kick to wards the end was sick.
It was
I’m 69 and haven’t trained or competed in years, but as a southpaw, I naturally moved to my right most of the time and while it would be obvious that righthanders should move to their left, most of them never did.
Won't the stance choice of your opponent be a factor in which direction to move, rather than your personal stance?
No troll, genuine question....
One of my favorite training partners is a southpaw switch stance fighter who's base is in Kyokushin Karate, and I just have to say... I hate and love you guys so much...
I have to give you props for landing and probably inventing that lead uppercut to back overhand, it looks dope
Lol i didn't invent it... but i actually did work on making it look cool. Good eye haha
Natalia is putting a little sauce on those strikes for just routine sparring. That weave under was a crowd pleaser and I liked the clinch entry when she cornered you. She's doing great.
I train for ambidexterity, which I know is not necessarily a popular idea but I think it works for me. To me, the best part of being bi-stance-ual is not necessarily being southpaw all the time, but its being able to switch sides midstream (even if its just for a little flash in the middle of a combo) on the interior as your feet shift and the clinch work happens.
So glad to see you spar again, old man!
Yeah! Mike is finally coming out of the closet! I knew he was Bi-Stance Fluid since seeing him on Streetbeefs! LOL
As someone who trains orthodox, I’ve found that, for both boxing and kickboxing, when switching to southpaw, the Philly shell is a great defensive option if used sparingly. Other than the traditional boxing defense it offers, it also protects the body from body kicks more readily. I always wondered how the Philly shell would work in high level kickboxing
Check Strickland vs Adesanya
as someone who sucks at both, i approve!
“No, Mike is not a southpaw.”
There ya go.
It's almost like the older martial arts weren't completely off base when they insisted everyone train both sides of their body... I started training more intensely in boxing over the past few years after many more years of more "traditional" martial arts. Though I initially suffered through lack of fitness/conditioning, the southpaw thing was not as intimidating because of the training we did in the past.
In instances when orthodox people switched to southpaw, I had tactics already, and found them easier to flank, because their lead hand/elbow and foot were so much closer to my own. However, I fully admit I've never sparred a person who is an "actual" southpaw, so I don't know if those tactics would work on someone more fluent in fighting that way. Been told by my coach (who is a southpaw), that a real one will throw a cross like a jab, and that change in pace is often what catches a lot of people off guard.
Now that my fitness and technique is a heap better, and I've had much more experience sparring, I find myself using a stance switch to make flanking much more efficient, and easier on the old joints. Quite often, I'll throw a few shots from southpaw as I set my feet, and then revert to orthodox to get around their guard as they turn into me (or to defend), and then start moving back around the other way.
Those toes straight into the solar plexus... I FELT that.
Natalia has pretty good defense and nice flow.
Love this content. I'll take more stuff like this.
Great idea! I loved the video format.
Coming from a kenpo background, I was forced early on to be comfortable in either a bladed orthodox or southpaw stance. The thing I find most interesting is when I’m in a squared stance I feel the most dangerous(faster maybe) and defenseless.
I fucking love this channel.
I'm pretty ambidextrous whenever I wear the big gloves, but when I've got my hands loose I've suddenly got SO MANY biases. It's a very night-and-day transition.
I like starting out with my right in the lead because I could get harder shots in and head hunt early. As I get tired and my volume goes down in a round, I like my to lead with my left so my right can go back to being a traditonal power to follow my left jab. I don't spar much at all, so my left has even less accuracy and it's only really there for show
This thing that you like to do... have you had success with it in full contact competition against opponents your skill level or greater?
I don't want to be "that guy," but once you develop a solid left hook, you might feel differently about how you approach sparring, mainly with regard to staying southpaw in the early rounds. Just don't fall in love with the left hook like I did. Keep in mind that I'm no expert, especially in the realm of stance switching. But I am working on it and getting better all the time, which is all I can endeavor to do.
@@hard2hurt yes in sparring against guys at my skill and mixed against people better than me. It's what I'm comfortable with because my left doesn't practice against live sparring opponents and my left side has been impacted by old injuries. But I think it's a good general strategy for switching lead sides based on volume capacity, accuracy and trying to get good hits in early. Never been in competition since I was a tkd kid and back then I had no notion of switching.
@@TheElbowMerchant you're probably right. I have a lingering shoulder imingement from old injuries that don't allow me to rip in with my left, so I have to try to rely on them walking in to it
@@mr.e8226 That makes sense. Old injuries are a bitch, man. My neck is royally jacked up, which seriously impacts the way I train in striking and grappling.
i liked the taking inside control through hand fighting to land your power hand or your left straight but i think you would have been safer throughout the first and second round walking to your right, maybe you wouldnt have landed that much but you would have been safer neverless. maybe if you sparred using elbow pads you would have walked to the right with higher hands to land that right elbow over the top and stay out of your oponents power hand. my point is with both of your sparring partners everytime you walked to the right they landed less shots and you could get away with turning them when you clinched (safer positions but still having confort to land your knees, back round kicks and power hamd) but when you walked to the left and entered the handfighting and control game you landed more, but they landed more too, and you found yourself in some dangerous positions a few times. that probably works with the guy that was cornering you because he is usually taller than his oponents. maybe you can put these two game plans togetter and get the best of both worlds. walking to the right system to land your back round kick and your knee, using your jab and handfighting to get away from their right hand and when they cut off the ring you reset using a gallop to the left and start the control and handfighting system to gain inside control position and land those clean shots you were landing, to then start the walking to the right main system, with pivots to the right and outside control to land your check hooks and jabs over their shoulders. great sparring btw. good competitive energy in your gym.
u should relaxed more when under attack, thats the difference between looking good and looking amateur. U start flinching and you have a little bit of scared posture while getting punched. Keep looking for counters with youres eyes open.
Natalia whooooped him lol
Mike the text in your thumbnail and the title together didnt work together well just telling you to help you
How did you like being able to jab with your 'good' hand? That's the part I always find I enjoy the most. :-)
It's whack, stupid, and overrated. The angle for the jab runs into your opponents lead hand. Also, the jab doesn't need to be strong. It is meant to sting and setup other punches. You are trading in a powerful cross and an advantageous angle for both your jab and lead hook. In exchange you are getting a strong jab you can't land, a weak cross and an extremely poor angle for your lead hook. You can't hide your movements behind their gloves as easily. You have made lead uppercuts extremely risky and rear uppercuts even more difficult to land. You have sacrificed defensive options as well. All that just to make a punch stronger that was never meant to be strong. Instead, you could just work on making your actual jab better.
pure savagery and facts@@hard2hurt
@@hard2hurt Yeah, it can feel like that when you're early on the learning curve - but I promise it gets better! :-)
After all, there's a reason why some pros have made a career out of doing this, not to mention switch hitters -
There is a reason... and it ain't to have a strong jab.
@@hard2hurt … which is not what I wrote.
The girl is good.
You said in a previous video people who often switch to southpaw are good at offense and not defense (if it's not their normal stance). I feel you showed that quite well here.. This is also a great example of why it's good to train both in case you get a fluid moment of switching
I felt it. I felt like offensively i was really dangerous... just no defense. But if i allowed myself to switch freely, maybe it would work really well.
@@hard2hurt it confuses your brain. I remember fighting southpaws and none of my counters worked as well because they are mirror image. Try grappling a south paw.
@@hard2hurt it's hard to train defense period, let alone training all your trained reflexes to mirror themselves
@@MrRawryorawrit's hard but possible
I've trained as a southpaw for 5yrs now and am just finding myself do Orthodox but it's starting to look like Mayweathers philly shell
You’ve been coming with great stuff lately
mike always got the heat
I was thinking about videos regarding southpaw stance and there it is haha!
I just got my nose cauterized so all i can do is watch people spar for a few days...😢
As a southpaw my criticism with your southpaw style Mike is you paw with the lead hand too much even at close range you were pawing as you get closer to your opponent you want to close your guard when you paw at close range it leaves your liver too open and makes it easier for hooks over the top but other than that very smooth!
I like hearing the raw commentary in the background
Natalia was looking crisp. That roll under the hook was clean. She seems like shed be a great sparring partner.
Changing the style in opposite stance always helped me with defense. “Karate Stance” always helped on the in and out of getting in and landing left hands. Also feels a lot like a philly shell which is a natural defense
That first guy was a little too big for Mike to be going with. I could see big man was holding back a lot but punches from big dudes just hit different.
0:58 This is the weirdest feeling. Guy in gray looks almost exactly like me but with a moustache.... And now I have confirmation I shouldn't grow one !
Hahahahahaha
Nice job, Mike! Looking good!
If you can’t throw a spiral with both sides, you should probably avoid fighting on both sides in my opinion.
That said, I practice _everything_ on both sides. I believe ambidextrous fighting is the way of the future, and I also feel that todays top fighters continue to move in that direction and lend credence to my hypothesis. When I spar I nearly always start southpaw and try every lefty trick I can think of. Then if I start to do bad or they answer my intensity, I’ll switch to the side I grew up fighting on and turn up the heat.
same opinion here, everything i do orthodox i do southpaw, and id even say that fighting mixed stance is easier than fighting same stance, at least for me that im usually taller than mu oponents for my weight class. i am just far away and can kick, my hand control is easier and positioning wise i can stay safer ealking to the right. and when they start jumping forwards to land some shots y just clinch them up and work the clinch (muay thai)
I like how Mike also gives his dudes experience coaching.
Hip tip 101- After saying something like "Ive been Bi-curious" or any 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 sexual innuenda, your suppose to say "pause" ... lmaoooo love the vids keep it up 😂🙏💪
THAT Battle Sister though....
you're not slow...🤣🤣🤣🤣
I grab em n hold on. No such thing as a South paw in the clinch
*laughs in left handed judoka*
I want to see Mike do more Streetbeef fights. He whooped a lot of ass at streetbeefs
Mike, I believe that all martial artists/fighters should be ambidextrous from day 1. It's not that much more time and it doubles your toolset. If you think I'm wrong, can you explain it from your experience as teacher/coach?
Would love to pop in and train 🤙🏼
@7:06 😮 She nice fr
Natalia is a effing beast bro. Ya'll see that roll she pulled on him?
Great Guy
As a natural left handed person, yet because of starting karate at a very early age and being forced to fight orthodox, I find it fun to switch stances and show off a little.
Never realized what a BEAST Natalia is
I'm definitely doing that Superman body punch next time I spar!
I'm a right handed southpaw. 2 things i have is a very strong jab and moving a lot to the right.
In mma i like Moussasi's jab oriented style a lot, obviously i suck compared to him, but i think as a southpaw you must have a lethal jab (i'm not saying he is a southpaw, i'm saying a jab oriented style works great to me as a southpaw)
Just my opinion though. I loved your many left body knees, i'm going to use them
Hi Mike, I can't understand why you don't tell your students to stop dropping their legs when they kick, you kick super well and always pull your legs back 💪🏻 but maybe it's a little strategy you use to nibble them 😜😜 greetings Paw
Switch hitting is awesome
Reminds me of the recent Hajime No Ippo chapters where he learns to fight as a southpaw to help his clients prepare for southpaw opponents.
Mike I asked you a question on an instagram live once about how I like hard sparring and you said you wouldn’t allow it at your gym. I would say this sparring especially against the first guy was quite hard. If by hard sparring you mean just fighting then I agree but the level you did was what I consider like moderately hard (which is what I prefer to do most of the time, not light sparring).
P.S more on topic with the video, I asked my coach about stance switching and he said it’s better to fight good from one stance than shit from two. Although one of our top fighters Josh Tonna is a switch fighter and he has unique abilities from either stance. Southpaw he’s much more muay femur with a good left knee and left kick but orthodox he’s like a japanese kickboxer, fast punches and sharp low kicks.
He explained hard sparring should be for competiton classes only and only for a select period of time, they are preparing these guy to fight so obviously they are gonna spar moderately hard
@@GauravSharma-j2oofc master your natural stance but one your are pretty defent - 3-5 years of training stance switching is something good to try.
@@vadimbobov4051 I think light sparring is more niche than moderately hard sparring. You need to have hurt someone for you to properly use a set up. If you go light, then you really can’t use more reads and set ups
@@GauravSharma-j2o potentially but you gotta weigh things up brain damage is a serious threat and if you are doing it recreationally than light sparring should be norm.
As for setups you can also go hard to the body/ legs and light to rhe head it’s definitely easier to set something up if they feel your power but its not impossible with light sparring just take-a a different approach i think jeff chan is a good example he achieves similar results in both types of sparring.
Great content