Ive sparred a few southpaws in the past, a teammate of mine made the state finals twice, but ive got like 20lbs on him and he's a pretty textbook boxer. The guy im fixin to spar is more of an agrresive, kinda loopy puncher, and he's got a few pounds on me. I never really switch stances myself, i may do it and pop a few jabs, then get out and return to orthodox, but I'm not confident enough in a southpaw stance to actually trade punches. Against southpaws I usually do the basics, circle to my left while trying to keep my lead foot on the outside of thiers. I usually wait for the first jab to come and then slip that to my right and take to combos from there. Usually straight right to the body and just improv from there. I'm a mover too, I usually stay just out of range and wait for my opponent to plant, then I try and jump in real quick and circle out. It seems like the sloppy punchers give me more trouble than actual straight punchers though.
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Yeah I'm still not too confident to stand and trade south vs south. It's a work in progress
...same here with sloopy guys. I go all bernard hopkins on them actually...step on their lead foot, turn them, elbows to throat, lead with head down looping over hand shots on them falling in with clean up elbows ..cough..cough lol
I spar with lighter faster guys my height 5'11" or taller middle to light heavy range just to get the boxing nice and tight, crisp, sharp, keeps me attentive because these guys fire back FAST and don't stop. I came down to 205 just to keep up with those guys man....it's unreal the speed and small margin for error vs a bigger slow man.
it's almost unfair when I spar with a bigger guy after sparring with the faster guys.
Question: Do you get pains in the arch of your feet from being on toes so much? I just noticed the past few months my arch in my right plant leg kills at times. I try and stretch it out for a good 5-10 minutes before I do anything. Hope it's not a nerve or something.
