Weird ass body proportions
Hey guys,
So I’m friends with a amateur soon to go pro MMA fighter who brought me along with him to sparring day at his gym. I came from a taekwondo and slight kickboxing background from when I was 14-16 or so but haven’t done it since (now 22). It got me pretty addicted to the sport and I’ve been training for a little over two months now.
I recently got my proportions measured after noticing my reach consistently felt short just to discover that at 186cm tall my reach is only 69 inches long while my legs are 40 inches long. I never looked visually out of proportion but after realizing how strangely low my reach is especially for my height and weight class I’m wondering how much of a future I really have in this sport and whether how debilitating of a disadvantage this reach really is. I’m wondering now how much I’ll have to compensate henceforth for potential amateur bouts which would be a goal of mine where my opponents will likely out reach me by 6-8+ inches