Leading With Your Dominant Hand.....

im left handed, my stance is southpaw. (im not a boxer, i practice mma). in our gym we do this all the time, change stance, but **** that **** is very uncomfortable! if you can do it comfortably i think its fine.

 

I am right handed and feel the most comfortable in an orthodox stance. It's not only your hands, but your feet play a part as well. I move a lot more fluidly in an orthodox stance. I am a bit ambidextrous though as I do a lot of things with my left hand, so jabbing feels right at home with the left.

Speaking of your feet playing a part as well, I feel this is something that Ortiz does not do well. He has terrible footwork and I attribute that to his forced southpaw stance.

 

Hagler was right-handed

 

Chad Dawson is one too

 

If you commit to developing a piston like laser accurate jab and a mean lead hook. It works. Most guys who do this and are successful have great jabs.

If you don't? You just become a fighter with a sub power rear hand.

 

Doubtful. Doubling up from the same side is far more advanced and requires more experience. The torque of your body makes using both hands natural. After enough training throwing an X leads to a Y.

Also, what is the point of the skill? To be multi-handed or effective? I think if most guys could win a fight using just their lead hand... They would.

 

Well said. I got in a bad car accident and tore my rotator cuff and began training southpaw and got pretty ****ing good at it. The thing about it is I have a **** ton of power in my dominant jab hand. Though my left jab is quick i doubt i could KO somebody with it unless it was the perfect shot. My southpaw jab is merciless and at 235lbs my opponents feel every pound of it in my jab whether it is blocked or not. I also have more endurance in my right shoulder than left shoulder which means i can throw that jab 40-50 times a round which is a lot for a big guy. My orthodox jab is like 20 a round.
In sparring as a heavyweight if your opponent doesn't know you aren't a natural southpaw and he feels your jab, he automatically assumes the left hand is gonna be even worse. His whole mindset changes. Trust me being a one handed fighter isn't so bad if you are beating everybody with one hand. I am not super experienced yet so i typically don't spar more than 3-4 rounds at a time, but i usually soften my opponents up southpaw for the first 1-2 rounds and then finish orthodox

 

Victor Tree is a right handed southpaw. And his jab is laughable. Good lead uppercut when fighting on the inside, though.

Tend to think you want your power hand back.

 

i think success comes down to the individual. some peoples brains can communicate better with their bodies than others can, thats why throwing a ball overhand with your weak hand for the first time, will look different between individuals.
the technical basis for throwing a punch remains the same for an orthodox or leftie. what is reversed, is the angles of the openings that your opponent will be giving you, and the angles of the punches coming your way. you still need to rotate with the same technique when throwing your hooks, and you still have to push off of your rear foot to get maximum leverage when throwing straight.
its just you fighting in a mirror with the same technique, when your brain can pull it off..

 

Joe Frazier did this too. I think with Frazier though, there were a couple factors...he was blind as **** in the left eye(probably not the main reason as this wasn't until the 70s)...but also at that time it was hard to get a fight if you were left handed....so they trained you orthodox regardless of your handedness a lot of the time

 

Yes, I'm a right handed south pawer. The main problem with having your dominant hand leading is that your left hand is basically useless. My right jab and hook are absolutely flawless, yet it took me years to perfect my left and it isn't half as good as my right. Southpaw stance just feels most comfortable for me, it's how I learned how to fight. I tried fighting orthodox but you basically have to relearn everything from scratch including head movement, in the end I completely abandoned the idea and focused on what was most comfortable for me which was southpaw.