to protect the solar plexus turn your shoulder towards your opponent so it faces him and from here take your lead arm and hold it across your body. your glove should rest directly on the solar plexus. with the same arm take your elbow and use to cover your equally vulnerbale (and equally painful) kidney on the side of your body.




the reason i reccomend this approach is because i find the squared up elbows in gloves on the cheeks method to get youhit more often than it should, as you seem to be experiencing. in order for it to cover the solar plexus it has to take the forearms and place them over the front of the body reducing your vision and your ability to counterpunch. on top of that it also exposes the sides of your body, the kidney, the liver and all. getting hit on either will paralyze you and its something that squared up guard cant protect without comepensating itself to either the sides of the body or to the front of the body. this your opponent can exploit.