I went to the gym with Ceresso Fort he's an up and coming undefeated boxer out of St.Paul, MN which is where i live. We hit the bag and did some drills but when he asked me what hand was my strongest i said my left, so naturally him being a direct student of the game he made me fight southpaw. I had never stood in a southpaw stance when i shadow boxed i usually do it from a conventional and it felt normal i have a good left jab and my right is snappy but its not as strong. When we went thru the drills and i was in southpaw i couldn't get the timing or the rhythm down and after i left i felt kind of embarassed because i thought i was decent with the hand skills but he showed me i couldn't really fight with my strongest hand. Since that day when i shadow box i do it from a southpaw stance and practice really does make perfect because i can throw stonger punches from angles that i couldn't standing conventional and still have the power behind them. My advice is if you can't get to the gym play Wii boxing but take it seriously stand in your stance and move your body around instead of just the controllers it helps a lot.
It depends on wheteher you want to be a pumcher who always goes for a KO or a boxer, as well as how good or strong your left hand really. Because if your left hand is not a big puncher and you wnat to win fights, then trainers switch southpaws to orthodox stance or vice vera because the dominant hand becomes the busy hand while the weak hand is the threat hand (which is basically just that because there is no way that it would cause damage). The dominant hand does not get tried easily realtive to the weaker hand and the jab is stiffer and powerful, which would maintain distance. The cons - the weak hand would not develop as rapidly as when it is used to jab. the Pros - if you have good feet movement, then you can sting like a butterfly, but win on points. However, if you are a KO artist, then fight southpaw and not to tire the puncher hand.
This is a very good way of looking at it. Since one of my fave boxers is Mayweather i dont mind being a feather fisted, tidy boxer rather than a KO artist. Plus like i said orthdox stance really feels awkward, and i know i cant defend properly in this stance (at present). A mixed bag of views but still all very helpful. Keep them coming!
i have the same problem as the TS, but what if i retain the southpaw stance and work on strengthening my left hand, will that work??
Whatever hand you naturally throw a ball with should be your back hand. Throwing your rear hand will allow you to get extra leverage from your power hand making it even more formidible, additionally your lead hook uses the core muscles on the dominant side of your body (inner obliques) thus your lead hook is very much a dominant side punch.
What makes your Dominant side is Eyesight. Over time they cause Nueromuscular adaptions to the Body. your strong Eye has most of your Peripharill vision and is the active side. Where the weaker eye isusually more shortsighted and supports and stabalises the active side in all things. I remeber a few years ago the Cubans experimented by turning there Fighters round with success, Im on the fence with the idea
Jeff the thingys getting longer, busy at the moment with Footballers, cant get rid of them. One goes another turns up anyway no problem :good
Paul Williams is a right handed south paw. Oscar De La Hoya is a left handed orthodox fighter. This is all about what is most comfortable for you.
you'll find a lot of trainers will discourage it. thats because they cant train it, which is fair enough. if you want to fight southpaw, find a trainer who can train it. i highly recommend it. it will frustrate most other fighters and most other trainers. train your left hand. thats easy. do EVERYTHING left handed. hold your cup, hold your mouse, everything you do.. do backwards. its something very much worth aiming for.
ive read a few more posts. if you're boxing seriously, you shouldnt have a 'weak' hand.. thats bull****. any combat sport should enhance your dual dexterity.
James Degale and some of the other boxers in the last olympic team are right handed southpaws acording to a ABA senior coach I was talking to the other day. They like the boxer to have the best hand leading. I would stand how you feel most comfortable and just keep training it will come with time.