The vast majority of fighters train to fight in a stance that revolves around their dominant hand. If you're a right handed boxer, your coach will emphasize the orthodox stance, where you jab with the left, and your power punches are done with the dominant right hand. Your power hand delivering power blows, makes sense. The limit to this technique is that all your attacks are based on your stance, the attacks can only be delivered from the one stance. Your lead hooks, uppercuts, and jabs can become very good even though you are launching them from your non dominant hand, because you learned, consciously or unconsciously how to leverage your stance.
Switching to a different stance requires you to do everything you learned in your original stance, through years and years of training with a part that is not used to doing so. That means you have to re-learn everything you learned, but differently. All the while you are neglecting developing your familiar stance, so you will regress due to the learning curve on one hand, and the neural atrophy that comes from less use of your established stance. Eventually you'll reach a crossroad where you've taken from one side, and given to the other for a more neutral approach. You have exchanged the benefits of both for a new set of benefits and downsides.
However, mastery of different stances, and how to leverage the body weight shifts of each stance, is ultimately the best way to hide your intention, and to deliver that knockout blow in the most efficient manner possible.
The vast majority of fighters train to fight in a stance that revolves around their dominant hand. If you're a right handed boxer, your coach will emphasize the orthodox stance, where you jab with the left, and your power punches are done with the dominant right hand. Your power hand delivering power blows, makes sense. The limit to this technique is that all your attacks are based on your stance, the attacks can only be delivered from the one stance. Your lead hooks, uppercuts, and jabs can become very good even though you are launching them from your non dominant hand, because you learned, consciously or unconsciously how to leverage your stance.
Switching to a different stance requires you to do everything you learned in your original stance, through years and years of training with a part that is not used to doing so. That means you have to re-learn everything you learned, but differently. All the while you are neglecting developing your familiar stance, so you will regress due to the learning curve on one hand, and the neural atrophy that comes from less use of your established stance. Eventually you'll reach a crossroad where you've taken from one side, and given to the other for a more neutral approach. You have exchanged the benefits of both for a new set of benefits and downsides.
However, mastery of different stances, and how to leverage the body weight shifts of each stance, is ultimately the best way to hide your intention, and to deliver that knockout blow in the most efficient manner possible.
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