improving your weaker side

[Scrap]

Its all in the Eyes.

[southpawed]

Its all in the Eyes.

i was pondering on this for a sec.

there is talk about how orthodox fighters should not switch southpaw in the middle of a bout, as your balance falters for that quick second. in the ring, i too noticed that when i would switch stances, my brain was just too perplexed, and it never really felt as if i was balanced. The feeling a newborn baby giraffe feels when its learning to walk and get his legs under him.

Could focusing with the dominant eye somehow settle your balance when you make that quick shift or something? I dont know, im just throwing stuff out.

[WayneFlint]

If your right handed then your right eye will also be your dominant eye the left eye sort of just supports things, now im not 100% sure but that says to me that you could never be as good as a southpaw as you will be as an orthadox, i think its more a mind muscle control issue throwing with only your left hand will awaken the muscles in your left arm and in time when you have good control over them you will be able to recruit more fibres with the punches which will inturn give you a better feel for what your left hand is doing, if i was you i would try to dedicate a round or 2 of sparring a week using just your left hand, same on the heavy bag and other equipment, using your left hand more will give you better control over your left hand, it can take a while to get the technique down for a good left hook aswell so all of these things are issues but i suspect a lack of control over the muscles in your left arm because i was the same when i first started boxing i felt like i couldnt squish a fly with my left hook never mind knock someone out, everytime u have spare time throw your left hand if your waiting for kettle to boil, running a bath, etc just shadow box with your left hand if you do this whenever you get chance during the day you will speed things up.

[Scrap]

Its all about the Dominant eyes recruitment of your Nueromuscular system, through its peritheral vision interesting stuff.

[Andre]

Its all about the Dominant eyes recruitment of your Nueromuscular system, through its peritheral vision interesting stuff.

So is the opposite eye dominant? The eyes are mainly physically hooked up to the opposite brain side . We physically see upside down but then the brain flips it around for us. Right eye / left brain hemisphere, and left hemisphere mainly controls the right had side of us physically etc?

So "generally", is the left eye dominant on a right handed person? or reverse?

[Scrap]

For the righthanded its right eye, thats where most of the Periphrel eyesight is. Your left eye is more shortsighted. Opposite the other way, theres a little thing you can try. Put your Finger 6" in front of your nose, line it up with something10ft away. Then close one eye and see how much the object moves the eye that doesnt move to much is the dominant one. The one that does is the shortsighted one. Also eyes are the slowest body signal because of this plus eyes dont go direct to the Brain, what you see is the past plus the eyes only have a 1/6 of a second memory,it doesnt give much hope .

[anon]

thanks for the responses, they're very helpful. It sounds like its best to go orthodox, i only do padwork and footwork really at the moment. I don't have a proper trainer and i've only been these past few week its very basic stuff. i'm just gonna try and get the basics down, get myself into good shape and work on my left hand, then i might try and move on to a gym and get some better training.

[Andre]

For the righthanded its right eye, thats where most of the Periphrel eyesight is. Your left eye is more shortsighted. Opposite the other way, theres a little thing you can try. Put your Finger 6" in front of your nose, line it up with something10ft away. Then close one eye and see how much the object moves the eye that doesnt move to much is the dominant one. The one that does is the shortsighted one. Also eyes are the slowest body signal because of this plus eyes dont go direct to the Brain, what you see is the past plus the eyes only have a 1/6 of a second memory,it doesnt give much hope .

That works a treat.Yeah well mines right eye dominant Im a right hander.

Thats a cool exercise in relation to where you place your finger comfortably in the center of your vision.

I just reversed it and sat and held my finger dead center of my eyes looked at it both eyes open then looked into the distance beyond it with both eyes still open and my finger appeared to move over to the left.

Alas there's no tricking my weak eye.