doesn't matter which wa you sidehop... I kick with my left foot and sidehop to the left mostly but I can sidehop to both sides (45 inch to me left and 41 to my right) I feel alot more compfy going to the same side as my kicking foot and it doesn't ever get in the way by the way, nice sidehop mate looks like you did it fairly easy so you could more than likely get bigger pretty easily