The Right Handed Swing

My friend recently introduced me to hours of high school fights from the internet, such as youtube, eBaumsworld, bad-bad...

And I noticed one thing with most high schoolers.

The person to through the first punch. . .

. . .will 90% of the time, through a poorly, unorthodoxed right-handed punch. Now i'm not saying these punchs will tickle, but i'm guessing that any martial artist who gets in a situation like this can see a punch like that come from a mile away.

Go on one of these sites and just watch some. Besides proving my point, they are quite entertaining.

I agree. are you planning to get into specific defenses for it, or do you want the thread to take another course? as in talking about HAOV?

In theory, a right swing is an easy thing to counter. It certainly is when your expecting it, but a 'sucker punch' is called that for a reason, and as Barnam said about suckers 'there's one born every minute'

Its not just school fights that start like this, most aggressive unarmed encounters begin with a shove or a right hander. If you are quick, or you can see it winding up, then there are numerous things you can do, but be prepared for it to go wrong.
There is a clip on the internet of rock star Glenn Danzig (allegedly a JKD instructor under Jerry Poteet) completely mistiming a block to a good right swing. He dropped hard, like anyone with any level of training tends to do when a big right lands on their jaw.

Also, never rely on this as a 'given' in a confrontation. If it were me, i would be throwing my left (i'm a southpaw) so your 'standardised' evasive reaction would lead your unguarded face right on to my fist- thanks!

Every situation must be considered unknown and your system of dealing with them must reflect that. There are plenty of books/manuals on dealing with attack, but strangely, no books designed to give advice to attackers, so they tend to make stuff up as they go along

There are so many counters to the RH punch, it's not even funny. Should I palm the nose, jab the throat, elbow punch his cheeks. . .etc.

So many way's

EDIT: I guess the purpose of this thread was for me to just simply let this off my chest, and just simply point this out. Knowledge is knowledge.

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Should I palm the nose, jab the throat, elbow punch his cheeks. . .etc.

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i'd just move out of the way, i would never OFFENSIVELY go INTO an over-the-top right hand swing from an opponent, cuz truth be told i have no idea how strong my opponent's punch is, and the risk of it connecting is not one i would be willing to take. so i'd just bob n weave/step back. after that its just a chess match.