So you're southpaw then?

I mean, the circling left deal I found works good against southies for us othros who typically circle right. It helps keep us from walking into those sneaky lefts. But it doesn't come easy and can be a painful change of natural flow to learn.

I'm not entirely sure what you mean. You are a southie, or against. What I do know is I switch up a lot, and my stance in southpaw is quite different then ortho. And I have different strengths and weaknesses. One weakness is, dropping my guard after throwing a right jab southie, so hooks certainly could be an issue there. But again, am usually circling left, so moving away from it, as opposed to into it.

It might be something as simple as that. In which case you need to work on getting back to guard quick. But would really need more info. I use my sparring tapes to review and it all makes a lot more sense after seeing what I am doing wrong. It is hard to figure out often when in there, compared to watching later.