How is reach calculated?

[bobStash]

Is it with a clenched fist? is it with hands opened and fingers extended?

 

[SakurabasEar]

Fingers extended

 

[Ares Black]

Middle fingertip to middle fingertip

 

[TheNinja]

Whatever the fighter decides to tell the UFC is basically his or her reach. I really doubt anyone is officially measuring.

 

[Frank McEdgar]

Do you measure your dick limp or erect?

C'mon bahdz

 

[BigTruck]

Artem says it's wrist to wrist.

Does artem have a wrist to wrist?

 

[DarthChen731]

Base to tip, don’t press into the skin

 

[tequilaboy]

Ask Nick Newell..

 

[myjohnson9]

Fingertip to fingertip... includes the hands and the back which is hardly applicable for reach in mma. Should be shoulder to first knuckle. And they should have leg reach in mma too

 

[myjohnson9]

Base to tip, don’t press into the skin

If your balls hang low can you use the base from underneath?

 

[DarthChen731]

If your balls hang low can you use the base from underneath?

No that’s cheating

 

[myjohnson9]

No that’s cheating

Devastated... I might need to change my username

 

[ImmigrantMentality]

Base to tip, don’t press into the skin

Most places say you are supposed to press into the skin

 

[TankAbbott4Eva]

Fingers extended

Yes, this is so we can get an accurate representation of Jones' reach...

 

[DarthChen731]

Most places say you are supposed to press into the skin

That literally makes no sense, though.

 

[ImmigrantMentality]

That literally makes no sense, though.

Depends how you look at it, when you smash you are pushing into the skin and fat. And if you go to one of those places that do the official studies that's probably how they do it

 

[Iron Skin]

 

[Iron Nick]

Fingertip to fingertip... includes the hands and the back which is hardly applicable for reach in mma. Should be shoulder to first knuckle. And they should have leg reach in mma too

Agree to an extent; shoulder width matters too, because you're rarely standing parallel to your opponent with the front side of your torso.
(Especially if your name is St-Pierre or [Wonderboy] Thompson).

 

[myjohnson9]

Agree to an extent; shoulder width matters too, because you're rarely standing parallel to your opponent with the front side of your torso.
(Especially if your name is St-Pierre or [Wonderboy] Thompson).

Yea but back width isn’t even as arm length when it comes to effective reach. I’d rather have longer arms than a wider back. If anything back width could be a seperate category

 

[Leonard Haid]

Fingertip to fingertip... includes the hands and the back which is hardly applicable for reach in mma. Should be shoulder to first knuckle. And they should have leg reach in mma too

Jon Jones is about 76 inches tall, but his "reach" is over 84.5 inches. That's silly. A shoulder to first knuckle measurement for reach is the actual reach measurement, a stat that means something.