Your opinion on the side stance in MMA?

[fluffball]

I guess I don't know what you mean by sideways stance. Everyone keeps one foot in front so assumed you meant with your shoulder pointed at opponents chest and feet pointed 90 degrees away from your opponent, like Erick Silva sometimes does.

The difference between a classic Mayweather boxing blade and classic Machida* karate blade is not very big. If I had to put a number on a boxing stance I'd go with 80 degrees, if karate is 90 degrees. Having your lead foot pointing away from your opponent is sort of silly no matter what style.

*Also Machida actually stands fairly square. His upper body faces his opponent and his legs are bladed.

 

[NidNoi]

Muay thai roundhouse kick kills side-stance.

 

[Jukai]

Muay thai roundhouse kick kills side-stance.

In Muay Thai rules and nothing else :icon_lol:

 

[atecubanos]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42NVyQN8uW8

 

[a guy]

Muay thai roundhouse kick kills side-stance.

MMA tackle and grapple make sweet sweet love to muay thai roundhouse kick

 

[NidNoi]

In Muay Thai rules and nothing else :icon_lol:

every rules including shit karate LOL

 

[NAKMUAY18]

Those thai gifs dont make you any less a white nerd then you are in real life.

you have problems dude.. i hope you get well. because i feel sorry for you more then anything.

I think my biggest problem with Idinot is that he's never said anything in the slightest bit technical. It's all first year basic things like, "if you stand to the side I can kick you". I've never heard him actually break anything down and say WHY.

I'm thinking not fat, but chubby kid, early 20's, mid level in his class, no fights never will, try's to talk about the latest Thai fights with the higher level guys, who humor him and laugh about how weird he is behind his back. I'm guessing he's the guy that watches glory or UFC, and insists on telling everyone what he'd do in that situation, while everybody rolls their eyes.

Que laughing Asian woman....

 

[Jukai]

every rules including shit karate LOL

Ha, is that why Karate guys like Andy Hug and Semmy Schilt destroy K1 and outside of Buakaw, no Thai fighter can cut it in K1?

Remember when Nathan Corbett, best heavyweight in Muay Thai, went into Glory and got creamed? I remember that. I laughed.

 

[Jukai]

Who cares the result from the corrupted promotion that became insolvent due to nobody trusted it ?

You are thinking of K1.

Glory and Wu Lin Feng are still going on, those are real international tournaments instead of those fraudulent, gambling-infested stadium snooze fests where the fighters try to poison and/or dehydrate each other.

Looks like Saenchai can't win if he can't slip his opponent a mickey

 

[fluffball]

Can we maybe trash this thread now that Nid has ruined it for everyone?

 

[Tug]

Sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of Saenchai losing decisions to Japanese nobodies in both Glory and Sanda fights

Lol

I dunno, kb record looks legit though

 

[AndyMaBobs]

You are thinking of K1.

Glory and Wu Lin Feng are still going on, those are real international tournaments instead of those fraudulent, gambling-infested stadium snooze fests where the fighters try to poison and/or dehydrate each other.

Looks like Saenchai can't win if he can't slip his opponent a mickey

Okay, gotta ask, who the fuck let NidNoid back to the computer? Haven't we banned him yet?

 

[PirateTetra]

Thanks for ruining the thread!

 

[Big Nasty Edison]

I would like to use a side stance to side kick Nidnoi in his nuts.

 

[Frode Falch]

haha.. but seriously.. can we get him out of here? this is my fav forum on sherdog. I hope it stay that way.

 

[NAKMUAY18]

haha.. but seriously.. can we get him out of here? this is my fav forum on sherdog. I hope it stay that way.

Seconded.
Drop the hammer of this half assed Payak

 

[pseudo genki]

every rules including shit karate LOL

Again?

Meanwhile, back on topic...
in formats that allow leg-kicks, a side-stance is more effective if you're comfortable switching between southpaw and orthodox. Distance management is very important and very different in it depending on whether your opponent's positioning risks taking away your jab or your lead leg kicks. Similarly, picking your lead leg up to check against inside kicks works much better than most people think: it's outside kicks where the stance suffers.

 

[flyingweelkick]

Meanwhile, back on topic...
in formats that allow leg-kicks, a side-stance is more effective if you're comfortable switching between southpaw and orthodox. Distance management is very important and very different in it depending on whether your opponent's positioning risks taking away your jab or your lead leg kicks. Similarly, picking your lead leg up to check against inside kicks works much better than most people think: it's outside kicks where the stance suffers.

Exactly. Side stance is a viable option for a switch-fighter as the various awkward positions that can occur when the opponent moves to the rear can be more easily reversed.....Like the TKD spinning-backfist off a missed side kick - it's easier to move and fight out of the chaos that comes from all that spinning and positional weirdness if you're cozy in both stances. If you're not comfy in both stances, there's definitely some much larger openings for an opponent with clever footwork to capitalize on.

 

[NidNoi]

Lol

I dunno, kb record looks legit though

Yes. He consistently has a fight almost every month and never cares any shit promotions.

 

[Bay Area]

It's fine from far away for jabs/sidekicks but you can't throw combinations unless your opponent is too slow to see a strike coming from all the way on the other side of your body.

Not true at all friend.