The Southpaw Problem

The Southpaw ProblemWhy your organization is beautifully prepared for an opponent who may not show up Ninety percent of the world punches the other wayWatch a competent orthodox boxer meet a southpaw for the first time and you will witness something close to a software crash rendered in flesh. The jab that has landed ten thousand times now arrives on the wrong side of the wrong shoulder. The lead feet tangle like a bad first date. The head movement, drilled until it became involuntary, slips him directly into the path of a left hand he has no history with. He is not unskilled. He is superbly skilled at a fight that is not happening. Everything in that fighter was built on an assumption so quiet nobody bothered to write it down - the other guy's left hand is nearer. Mirror the stance and the assumption fails silently, which is the worst way for an assumption to fail. He does not feel unprepared. He feels confused, and confusion in a ring costs the same as incompetence. Then comes the…

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