Southpaws Are You The Only One In Your Gym?

I only go to my Boxing Gym in the Morning hours 7AM-Noon...But in that crowd, there are several Southpaws, And there is surprisingly a large Diversity of Fighters here in Albuqerque. Although there are only two Black Boxers (me & a kid from Seattle) in the gym, Also there are two Black MMA fighters that train in the morning.

There is a Boricua Lefty, a Southpaw from Panama, two Mexican Lefties, A Pinoy Lefty, one white amatuer lefty, two southpaws from Cuba, and me (A Black American Boxer). But because this is the Westcoast (Southwest actually) Just like when I lived in Vegas and San Diego...I am the Biggest Boxer at 6ft 1 1/2 199lbs. In this Part of the country, it's mostly Latinos and Asians Fighters...so the majority of the Boxers are less than 154lbs. In my gym it's 130lbs-168lbs...although there is a Mexican Heavyweight who normally trains at night....but has recently been coming in the morning.

 

I think the distribution in my gym is almost the same as it is out in the world - about one of every 10-15. I'm definitely not the only one, although I haven't sparred with another southpaw in quite a while. My first regular sparring partner was a southpaw, but for the most part it's been nothing but orthodox opponents. (With the exception of one pro who used the opportunity of sparring with this inexperienced southpaw to practice switching stance. That was kind of fun.)

 

I wish my coach would just let me be, sparring is becoming a pain in the ass when I can't let my hands go.

 

I'm the only southpaw in my gym, it makes it awkward when we do partner work because everyone is used to being partnered with orthodox fighters, and it confuses things a little

 

I have a weird experience...my older brother is a south paw...so i use to always spar him..when i first started boxing..my other brother..who is right handed...also did some boxing..and he fought out of a south paw stance..so i sparred him..then at my gym...all my 4 (6 if you include my two brothers) of the 8 guys who i have regular sparred over the years have been south paws..overall i have likely sparred twice as many rounds aganst left handers as i have against right handers....

hence i am better at fighting south paws.

 

Quite a lot of SPs where I'm at. Makes a more interesting match up. I hate orthos to be honest, just because of the leg obstruction and fighting over the same trajectory path for jabs. Can become more annoying than challenging.

 

I've recently joined a new gym, I'm the only southpaw boxer there but luckily 2 of the 3 coaches are also southpaws and have a lot of ring experience