Amazing video! Russian boxer and coach! He leads with the hook alot is this ok?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=egIfayF05Gg

Ok he is a southpaw and he is leading with a lead hook alot, but its a longer ranged lead hook, and he is also stepping away from an orthodox fighters right hand.

So im gonna try this out in sparring ie a lead hook while moving away from an orthodox fighters right cross so I can land a cross of my own. Is this safe to do re leading with a hook isnt common, what counters should I look out for?

(im also a southpaw)

In soviet Russia Hook leads with you...

I watched the first five minutes, and he wasn't throwing "lead" anythings. Just about everything he was doing was in reaction to an opponent's jab, and based on the assumption that he was safely outside that jab and therefore out of punching range. Got help him if he doesn't end up there, because he winds up and telegraphs everything he throws and leaves himself wide open with his chin in the air.
Good Heavens, there he was throwing a corkscrew jab, too. I guess the point is to punch over the left shoulder of an opponent, though there really is no telling what goes on in the mind of a southpaw.