I’m not red beard but… I do not like doing the turn on the front side, bow under the bridge either. This is why I love ROS. I also keep 2 slotted squirrel steps when I do use a platform. It allows me to slowly walk the back of the tree as opposed to swinging around the front side or trying to push off knee to the tree and shoot around.
Best advice I can give you about using ROS for weak side shots, is to slowly lengthen your tether so you have space to walk the steps around. Or you can do what my son does,instead of letting our extra tether, he actually grabs his girth hitch and swings it off to the side of the tree so that he can walk the tree easily without it pulling back against him. He’s pretty stealthy when he does it and it lets him move very slowly around. For me though just lengthening the distance between my prusik and the tether girth hitch usually allows me plenty of room to get around the back for a weak side shot