Question about Southpaws

[HerbM]

Thanks guys.

I am so new that I wasn't even practicing switching during any kind of sparring -- just on the bag, and only at (fairly) long intervals.

So for now, it wasn't so much to be tricky, or cagey, but just to have both arms/sides/legs work well.

Doing it on the bag you pretty much have to either to it going forward or around -- no one is pressuring me or trying to go around me (yet).

Even the little bit of SHADOW sparring the coach lets me (and the other beginners do), I keep to the VERY basics and concentrate of good form. Coach doesn't let newbies hit or get hit.

The advice about making the switch natural or or even cutting off the opponent fits right into my Systema background -- in Systema you don't 'take a stance' but rather move out of the way in a fairly natural (but always balanced) posture and hit with anything that can find a target from any direction.

[Of course there are no rules in Systema so you can go behind and strike from there and use the legs, feet, elbows or even the head to deliver blows.]

Thanks so much.

[Andre]

Thanks guys.

I am so new that I wasn't even practicing switching during any kind of sparring -- just on the bag, and only at (fairly) long intervals.

So for now, it wasn't so much to be tricky, or cagey, but just to have both arms/sides/legs work well.

Doing it on the bag you pretty much have to either to it going forward or around -- no one is pressuring me or trying to go around me (yet).

Even the little bit of SHADOW sparring the coach lets me (and the other beginners do), I keep to the VERY basics and concentrate of good form. Coach doesn't let newbies hit or get hit.

The advice about making the switch natural or or even cutting off the opponent fits right into my Systema background -- in Systema you don't 'take a stance' but rather move out of the way in a fairly natural (but always balanced) posture and hit with anything that can find a target from any direction.

[Of course there are no rules in Systema so you can go behind and strike from there and use the legs, feet, elbows or even the head to deliver blows.]

Thanks so much.

Your right, Its much better suited to Mma etc like when someone is targeting your front leg, you switch as they throw the leg so your leg is clear and you got them around the outside as they land over commited.

If an elbow lands and they back out, you switch as you land the rear elbow so its like two wind mills one up the inside of their guard and the next around the outside of their guard.