3) Confusing the opponent, e.g. as you pivot around him you jab to prevent him really knowing exactly where you are .
4) Controlling the fight.
Your backhand does the damage, the lead simply digs away at him. Like he said above aswell, a proper clean jab will knock their head back and a real jab with full body weight, full speed and a fully extended arm will push their head back and they hurt like hell, so the jab, when executed text book style, does have it's own power so don't think it's weak simply because your left doesn't have the same power. The power from the jab comes more from technique rather than strength.
Take a non-boxer, get him to punch a pad and concern yourself ONLY with power, not technique (meaning not about whether it's a looping shot which is easy to dodge or whether there could be more power). Get him to hit it with his left, and then his right. His right hand may very well be strong, getting hit with it would no doubt hurt. However, his left hand shot would be pathetic, wouldn't hurt at all. That's an easy way to tell you that the jabs power comes from technique, not muscle. Muscle helps, of course, but technique is what really unlocks the left hand's potential much more than technique unlocks the right hands potential.
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