Well I don't know what to say, when we designed our rod stand none of us thought anyone would use it that way around. It took us about a year to come up with a simple system and you two buggered me up in two seconds. The idea of the arm was to enable you to fight a fish from the stand without taking the rod out. I have developed a style of lifting the rod up and out using the rod to flip the arm over, so it does'nt matter which side the arm is on. In simple terms the rod goes into the 'V' of the stand.