Quote Originally Posted by Jimanuel Boogustus View Post
I should probably post this in the 'ask the trainer' board but as I don't ever frequent that side of town (as I don't box, and this is more of a theoretical question rather than for personal advice) I figured I'd test the waters here first.

From time to time, I will bring up the subject of switching stances as a means to add more facets to your style of fighting. I almost find it remarkable that it isn't done more frequently in boxing. I find it similar to being annoyed that some professional footballers that can only kick with one foot.
There was this guy at the gym I train ay and when we started training he was shadow boxing in the southpaw stance. My coach saw him and asked him why he was doing that and he said " I lost a couple fights and I wanted to change it up " my coach told him to never do that again and to go back to orthodox. My coach was a southpaw himself. I have no idea why hut trainers dont seem to be keen to their fighters switching I'm guessing they wouldn't be used to seeing the punches coming from the different angles and all plus they wouldn't be as fluid as they would in their natural stance.