How come more fighters dont stand southpaw?!?

[Emir Mehovic]

This is proablably going to sound like a stupid question but why dont more fighters stand southpaw. I mean it worked great for Bruce Lee lol but seriously why not?

[Taylor Culbertson]

most people are right handed.

/thread

[Muhammad Abdou]

sometimes il switch my stance up even though im right handed because it can offer me benefits, like being able to throw stronger jabs and having a right kick that has to travel a shorter distance, giving me a have a powerful kick that can stop people from ever entering my range.

so if your orthodox you can get more power from your shots but if you go southpaw you can get good shots in faster

[Emir Mehovic]

Thank you Muhammad

[Sean Marshall]

I switched to mostly south paw for the hard hitting strait jab and getting angles on people a little easier. I figure if you dont respect my jab power then whats to stop someone from shooting in and taking me down of the jab. Since there are less south paws, people dont as easily recognize when someone has gotten a good striking angle on them. You can take advantage of that extra split second when they are realizing something is not normal. I still switch stances. I switched to south paw after a leg injury because i didnt want to be leg kicked on my bad leg and never swicted back.

[Sean Marshall]

forgot...original question answer. most people are right handed and want there power hand to hit as hard as possible, and a lot of trainers do not advise switch stances because you have to learn how to do everything differently. not different like mirrored opposites but completly different approach to strategy and techniques

[Nate Hollyfield]

I naturally stand south paw but I can write with both hands... I dont like switching stances either. Im not sure how many orthodox people dont like to switch, but I for one like my stance. If you can switch im sure it helps, but standing southpaw for me is normal and its pretty hard for most rightys to deal with in my exp.

[Isaiah Mendoza]

a lot of fighters don't stand southpaw simply because it's natural for them to stand orthodox. Way back when boxing began they used to actually retrain southpaw fighters to fight orthodox because it was viewed as a disadvantage. however, it was later on discovered that being southpaw is beneficial in a fight. There was actually a recent study done showing that left handed people were more successful violent societies than right handed people. A southpaw has an advantage standing firstly because orthodox fighters are used to fighting other orthodox fighters so the angles that their strikes come from seem unnatural. A seasoned southpaw on the other hand fights orthodox fighters all the time so he's used to the angles that the striking are coming from.

Personally I think it's best to be efficient in both stances, southpaw and orthodox. The best fighter IMO is the most well rounded one.

[Sarah-Jane & Del Christie]

My coach is ambidextrous, lucky sob lol. so he has no trouble off of either, but he does prefer to fight Southpaw

[stlnl]

If you have a weak jab, or lead hook, because it is with your off hand, your training/power are the issue, not the hand you choose to lead with. There are some advantages with being a right handed southpaw, especially in something like MMA where you are then able to shoot off of your strong leg.

Most of the advantages are that you will be less common a foe for people you line up with, all the strong hand forward stuff only means IMO the people saying it should have trained more with that lead (weak) hand to make it better. I know alot of people who are right handed who have devastating left hooks and very good jabs, but they worked on them alot, rather than accepting the quick gratification of using the dominant hand to throw them.