Peripheral vision with guards up

[Aperture_Eyes]

Anyone else feel your peripheral vision gets sacrificed when you have your guard up?

I do fine keeping my guard down, but my MT instructor gives me shlt about it all the time. I know it's an absolute to always keep it up, but I feel my peripheral vision gets deterred a bit. Are my eyes just screwed up or do some of you share this problem.

 

[CowboyPete]

Where exactly are your hands when your guard is up? If you keep them above the eyes you may want to keep them a bit farther away from your head. You can see pretty well peripherally with them about 6-8 inches from your head. You can also just keep them a bit lower, knuckles the same level as your nose.

 

[Truculent]

your guard is up pretty high then. You only really need to be guarding your chin %100 of the time, you can raise your hands to defend against other shit as it comes.

 

[gingerbreadman]

these guys are right, i've never had this kind of problem, it sounds as if you have a guard that's actually to high, which is also a danger because you have a larger area of your body exposed to things like shovel hooks, or in a street situation kidney shots.

 

[Brad]

Sounds like the "cage defense" ala winky wright or mike tyson. It can make punches to the head really h ard to land for your opponent, thus really frustrating them. Try lowering your hands just enough to give you your vision back but still protect your chin.