The SouthPaw Thread

[actionjackson]

I am a natural southpaw right here.

I find as a southpaw I can more easily get out of trouble by moving to the right. I also feel I have a strong advantage in ring generalship and controlling the centre of the ring from the southpaw stance.

[AztecWanker]

What your trainer has you doing is the best thing to do when they are jabbing at you. I would recommend you work on a good up jab too because when they stop jabbing and they usually do, you have to be able to snake your jab up and inside their left hand.

South paws with a good jab are deadly. For most orthodox fighters it is almost impossible to jab effectively with a southpaw because the jab they need to use is something they were never taught.

very good post, this is the type of post i was looking for when i made this thread, green k my dude

[JulioCesaChavez]

very good post, this is the type of post i was looking for when i made this thread, green k my dude

You must be ****ing joking! The forum tit is telling you to slip inside and give a jab with 'sting' probably meaning using your elbow which may result in painful hyperextension. He uses this gay jab his vids quite often when the jab from shoulder is more mechanically sound and safe.

That technique he describes can be done once in a while, but if you keep slipping inside their lead hand V experienced fighter, they will nail you with a straight cross to your chin. You would have to be in and out and cannot stay to do combos. I would have a field day with a southpaw doing that. They would be better off trying to stay in line, or even better circling to my left and nailing me fromoutside as I do to them.

PWNd Shawn is also suggesting most orthodox fighters should do same thing. if you go to your right adn slip inside a southpaw's lead hand all the time, they will nail you with straight lefts for fun. His tips are very ambiguous too, and he just likes buzz words that don't actually mean **** like 'sting'.

I remeber he previously said something gay in a similar post like when you fight a southpaw, you must be like one. When asked to elaborate he says sting with the jab and be like a snake as though every southpaw had the same style! No they do not all fight the same way as you can see by comaring Naz to Pacman, or Pacman to Hagler, etc.

His knowledge is weak and his pseudo-expert advice is weak. He is only poster in this entire site that actually pisses me off because he folls innocent gullible people with pure BULL! He may even cause people to quit. there are many styles of southpaw fighters, even people who come and fight in pocket. His lack of knowledge is pathetic and is bordering on embarassing.

[freeze_dried]

Im right handed but I much prefer southpaw, I think it's because I like to be able to control the opponent with a persistent strong jab but I also try to mix it up a little bit.

Is anyone on here the same? Does anyone actually know why a right hander would prefer a southpaw stance?

[PunchDrunk]

Im right handed but I much prefer southpaw, I think it's because I like to be able to control the opponent with a persistent strong jab but I also try to mix it up a little bit.

Is anyone on here the same? Does anyone actually know why a right hander would prefer a southpaw stance?

I guess it's because you feel like you can control the distance better with your right hand as the lead. You have better motor skills and strength with your preferred hand, so your jab will be stronger, faster, and more accurate. The downside, of course, is that your cross will be weaker and harder for you to learn to throw correctly.

I'm left handed and fight orthodox, so I had the same problem. My first trainer didn't know ****, so he never caught it in the beginning, and for some reason, no one ever saw fit to turn me over. I had to work long and hard on my right cross, and it eventually got better, but to this day, I can turn southpaw, and throw a much harder left cross.

I would recommend you learn how to fight orthodox.

[TheTruthIs]

Im right handed but I much prefer southpaw, I think it's because I like to be able to control the opponent with a persistent strong jab but I also try to mix it up a little bit.

Is anyone on here the same? Does anyone actually know why a right hander would prefer a southpaw stance?

Natural ortho, but fight from both stances. I was taught to jab jab jab as a beginner, so became very effective with my left. Left hook worked better then my right hook and so on. Since working hard on southie stance, it got me working my right a lot more and with shorter effective punches.

It also helped to find more openings in defence by exploiting openings created by increased lateral movement and forcing opponents to adjust.

[PunchDrunk]

What your trainer has you doing is the best thing to do when they are jabbing at you. I would recommend you work on a good up jab too because when they stop jabbing and they usually do, you have to be able to snake your jab up and inside their left hand.
South paws with a good jab are deadly. For most orthodox fighters it is almost impossible to jab effectively with a southpaw because the jab they need to use is something they were never taught.

How do you "snake" your jab up the outside of a southpaws left hand?

[JulioCesaChavez]

Im right handed but I much prefer southpaw, I think it's because I like to be able to control the opponent with a persistent strong jab but I also try to mix it up a little bit.

Is anyone on here the same? Does anyone actually know why a right hander would prefer a southpaw stance?

You should fight orthodox, and lefty's shoulf fight souhtpaw. It is misguided fake intelligence what you are doing and you will end up with **** all in your cross. Even world class left handed southpaws like Oscar have problems landing flush right hands but not getting as much sting as they do in their left handed shots. IMO Oscar would have been better off southpaw! There was a right handed southpaw called Paul Spadafora and he was so **** he beat up his wife and ended his career by going to jail. True story.

[Equilibrium]

Im right handed but I much prefer southpaw, I think it's because I like to be able to control the opponent with a persistent strong jab but I also try to mix it up a little bit.

Is anyone on here the same? Does anyone actually know why a right hander would prefer a southpaw stance?

I'm the same. A lot of boxers do it for some reason, De la Hoya is a natural southpaw and he fights as an orthodox fighter, same for Miguel Cotto. Marvin Hagler, Chad Dawson and Michael Moorer are all natural right hander and they fight/fought as southpaw.

And these are the ones i can come up with from the top of my head, im sure there is more.

Personally the only reason i started trainning and fighting that way was because it felt more comfortable, not to be able to lead with my stronger hand, cause i have similar power in both hands.

[JulioCesaChavez]

I'm the same. A lot of boxers do it for some reason, De la Hoya is a natural southpaw and he fights as an orthodox fighter, same for Miguel Cotto. Marvin Hagler, Chad Dawson and Michael Moorer are all natural right hander and they fight/fought as southpaw.

And these are the ones i can come up with from the top of my head, im sure there is more.

Personally the only reason i started trainning and fighting that way was because it felt more comfortable, cause i have similar power in both hands.

You're not Cotto or Oscar though now are you? I always thought Hagler was a lefty or ambidextrous. WTF is Chad Dawson doing on that list?

not to be able to lead with my stronger hand,

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There is a school of thought in boxing that believes your stronger hand should do more of the dog work: jabbing, hooks, etc. But it is wrong! It has become very popular as you may have noticed at the last olympics. You need your money maker in your cross, unless of course you genuinely do have power and MANUAL DEXTERITY in both hands and stances like an ambidextrous Naz.

There is another school of thought that believes the soutpaw's are flawed and once they are figured out they will get nailed left right and centre and knocked the **** out. It is a popular school of thought amongst latin fighters which is why they have produced so many orthodox lefty's. Also, as a trainer it makes pad work alot easier!

And finally... Opinions are like *******s, everyone has one! On this topic more than any others in boxing!