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Quote Originally Posted by Youngblood View Post
Tho naturally orthodox, I fight a substantial amount of time in southie. From here I tend to find myself often on the back foot. I find I do use it often as a counter, my left...but how it seems to work if I understand the mechanics properly, is that while backing up, I can give a strong shot with my right, to create the combo of a straight left to follow that when delivered done with a momentum or gravitational shift of weight forward.

Or something.
Do you use the initial switch to your advantage or the ending of the switch to your advantage or both? Do you trigger the move on their commitment and use the switch to go out of range on one side fast and counter with the other side? Not many people do it safe and right.
I believe it is both. I think I am slightly fortunate in that I have a fairly strong quick left and am comfortable switching up. I don't trigger the move by their commitment, but try to get them to commit by doing it. I think at this level it still confuses many opponents and sucks them into charging forward. It happens quite fast actually, and I just seem to find all sorts of room with the different angle to score. I've rewatched tape of it numerous times, and if you aren't paying attention closely enough, you might even think the other person is scoring because they are usually throwing, but not landing and getting countered.