Struggling with southpaws

[!! Shawn]

elaborate on this please, it intrigues me.

The most effective way to fight a southpaw is to fight like a southpaw. The southpaw style is designed around fighting a fighter that does everything exactly the opposite of them.

When I help people prepare for southpaws I teach them to fight like a southpaw. How to jab like a southpaw, how to defend like a southpaw, the footwork of a southpaw.

Its all different from an orthodox fighter. The reason southpaws have an advantage against right handers has nothing to do with the right handers being unfamiliar with southpaws, it has to with the orthodox fighters fighting like orthodox fighters.

The orthodox style is designed to face other orthodox fighters. The south paw style is designed to face a fighter that is doing everything exactly the opposite of you.

You need to learn to snake your jab. Pawing with your jab to control your opponents jab. Take advantage of the pivots to left that you have. Learn to perry slip and duck strait left hands.

You have to get yourself into the mind set of a southpaw. You will be fighting as a southpaw, only you will be standing orthodox.

Pay special attention to learning the defense. It is awkward to excecute, but it works, and you need to do it.

When fighting a southpaw, fight like a southpaw.

[Ictus]

Stiff left jab to the body is also good, aim for your opponents liver. Because if you throw a left hook to his body, usually it lands on his back, but using a jab you will hit the liver more often. I'm a southpaw and i like to slip my opponents jab and throw a right uppercut between their hands, you should try that too, slip their jab and throw a left uppercut between the hands.

[Gojira]

Yeah, I had the same problem last night. this guy who was quite a bit taller than me was southpaw and my best punch is a straight right hand but when i went to do a 1-2 combo he could see them coming and parry them.

what i did was parry or slip his jab and throw a left hook that kept on cathing him on the chin and when i threw a double left hook hid knees turned to jelly and didnt throw another punch that round.

[We want Floyd]

Usually with lads, I find them easy, just rush in, go for body and work them against ropes. However against a particular southpaw it was very hard for me, he had a massive reach advantage and basically I couldn't get into him, his defence was very awkward. Whats everyones solutions against southpaws?

As in any fight, the jab is key. Against a southpaw, your jab has to work overtime. I mean, double and triple up on your jabs, because your backhand has to travel a longer distance. And of course, move to your left.

The distance of how far a righty's straight punch has to travel to land against a southpaw is something the righty is not used to. If you watch almost any southpaw vs conventional fights, the right handed fighters usually over-reach and end up getting countered, and for some reason, the righty tends to forget his jab and focuses on leading with the backhand. So again, work on the jab to get that backhand to connect on its intended target.

[ironalex]

to beat a southpaw, you gotta fight like one.

[RJJp4pbaby]

they fight the same as nornmal fighters, they just do everything the other way round. It's just a mirror reflection of an orthodox fighter. the only reason why people get confused by thenm is because they're not use to them. that's all. Once you sparred with a few, you realise that you just need to keep going to your left and deal with them whuichever way you deem necessary!