Are you LH or RH?

[analog999 0]

:o The way my coach in mighty-mites could tell which shot you were was to ask us how you held a rake for the leaves. Try it some day-it works

I did try this recently and I found I use both sides!

[repus 0]

This may sound odd, but I think your style is also influenced by your hand position.

I am a right handed person but I shoot left handed. Being a defensemen, I do a lot of one handed poke checks etc. My stick handling abilities are definitely not strong since my less coordinated left hand is in front. This may also be my sheer lack of skill ;)

I would think if it were the opposite way around, with the stronger hand in front it would improve puck handling and wrist shots.

-dave

[chk hrd 164]

"I would think if it were the opposite way around, with the stronger hand in front it would improve puck handling and wrist shots."

Your top hand should control the "fine" movements like moving the blade of the stick while your lower hand mostly lifts the stick over the puck and back and forth.

[BushLeagueDangler08 0]

Shoot-Left

Write-right

bat-left

catch/throw-right

golf-left

[The Stranger 0]

Most Canadians are LH. Go to your LHS and look to see how many RH sticks there are left. I can NEVER get the stick I want because I'm LH.

I always wished I was a lefty because down here all the sweet closeouts are LH. Not to mention all the pro-stock stuff...

[cja5150 0]

:o The way my coach in mighty-mites could tell which shot you were was to ask us how you held a rake for the leaves. Try it some day-it works

This totally works. I never noticed the relation until this last weekend. I was raking the grass pretty heavily and got winded. I bent over and put the rake accross my knees like I do when I get winded on the ice. I thought "wow my neighbors must think I'm a freak".

I'm right handed everything except raking and hockey. The cool part is that my Left hand is generally more powerful (slapshots, etc), but my right hand has more coordination (poke checks, one handed stick handling)

[Chadd 916]

I switch hands while raking leaves

[technophile 0]

I switch hands while raking leaves

Likewise.

Same with sweeping or using a hoe to break up soil; I'll use whichever side is more comfortable, or I'll switch when I get tired.

I'm strictly righty on shooting, batting, etc, though.

[Ti-girl 0]

Most Canadians are LH.  Go to your LHS and look to see how many RH sticks there are left.  I can NEVER get the stick I want because I'm LH.

I always wished I was a lefty because down here all the sweet closeouts are LH. Not to mention all the pro-stock stuff...

I wish, I just went to my LHS to take a look at some the sticks they have. (Mine is going to die on my next shot...I swear...but anyway...) There are tones of RH sticks, but NO LH sticks left. I need to wait until June when they get all their stock in, though, there was a guy in an Oilers jersey there that made me smile. And they were re-stocking some sticks as we spoke.

[warrior37 0]

i write with my right hand, drive with my right foot, shoot with a hockey stick right handed, golf right handed, as far as soccer ill kick with either foot, lacrosse i can play with both sides (youre kind of supposed to) but im better with dodges on my left side, i can bat both sides, i throw with my right hand....honestly though im thinking about training to get half way decent with a left handed stick, i can see where right hand on top comes in handy

[steve66 45]

It is partly due to dominant handedness to begin with, but after time it all comes down to comfort and muscle memory.

I shoot right, but i am right handed. Although my right hand and arm is a bit stronger than my left, when i stick handle with one hand, then switch, my left os far stonger and more co-ordinated. So i think generally it depends how you start to play, if you start one way you develop the comfort for shooting that way.

[steve66 45]

honestly though im thinking about training to get half way decent with a left handed stick, i can see where right hand on top comes in handy

play with a dead stright blade and play switch :)

[srv2miker 0]

The school of thought says that whatever hand you write with should be the hand that is placed at the top of your stick. This makes sense when you consider the need to poke check or one-hand deke around opponents; you want your strongest arm to be in control of the stick.

Well, I'm a dominant left-hander, and I shoot right, which should make sense based on having your strongest hand at the top of the stick. My dad is also a lefty who shoots right.

But my brother however is a righty who shoots right as well. So I wonder if its a genetic thing as opposed to a "handedness" thing. Could it just be your Dad placing a stick in your hands or teaching you to shoot that determines which way you shoot?

[gavin 0]

Ok I'm Canadian and I shot left and bat ambidextrious and kick right and hunt right and write right.

Here's why what I do is better that not doing it my way: You are better with your dominant hand on top when playing hockey, and not just because it's stronger. Because you have better peripheral vision out of that eye: when I'm hunting I look in the scope with my right eye. And when I play lefty, I look at the net with my right eye.

Here's why having your right hand as the dominant hand and shooting left is better than having a left dominant hand and shooting right: because most goalies (including me when I'm in net) catch left. Meaning if you're a left shot in close it's a shorter distance to thier stick side. And it's a proven fact that the hardest save to make/slowest motion in a goalie is the paddle side going DOWN to get a puck under his stick.

Just some thoughts.

[steve66 45]

Ok I'm Canadian and I shot left and bat ambidextrious and kick right and hunt right and write right.

Here's why what I do is better that not doing it my way: You are better with your dominant hand on top when playing hockey, and not just because it's stronger. Because you have better peripheral vision out of that eye: when I'm hunting I look in the scope with my right eye. And when I play lefty, I look at the net with my right eye.

Here's why having your right hand as the dominant hand and shooting left is better than having a left dominant hand and shooting right: because most goalies (including me when I'm in net) catch left. Meaning if you're a left shot in close it's a shorter distance to thier stick side. And it's a proven fact that the hardest save to make/slowest motion in a goalie is the paddle side going DOWN to get a puck under his stick.

Just some thoughts.

But did you think of all those reasons when you started playing, or did you just end with with a left handed stick, then develop your reasons. Good reasons though.

Do you not think that if you started RH you would have developed the same way?

[hockeysew 0]

:D I dont hafta rake leaves anymore thank God

Now I make the kids do it-Both right handed and both left shots

[sabre09923 0]

The school of thought says that whatever hand you write with should be the hand that is placed at the top of your stick. This makes sense when you consider the need to poke check or one-hand deke around opponents; you want your strongest arm to be in control of the stick.

Well, I'm a dominant left-hander, and I shoot right, which should make sense based on having your strongest hand at the top of the stick. My dad is also a lefty who shoots right.

But my brother however is a righty who shoots right as well. So I wonder if its a genetic thing as opposed to a "handedness" thing. Could it just be your Dad placing a stick in your hands or teaching you to shoot that determines which way you shoot?

Nope. My dad is a right-hander who shoots lefty, but my brother who is a right-hander shoots righty. Either that or my dad did tell my brother how to place his hands on the stick like a righty would.

[hattrick74 0]

drive with my right foot

how would you drive with your left foot? that seems tough and dangerous

[technophile 0]

You are better with your dominant hand on top when playing hockey, and not just because it's stronger. Because you have better peripheral vision out of that eye: when I'm hunting I look in the scope with my right eye. And when I play lefty, I look at the net with my right eye.

Eye dominance is not linked to handedness. I'm right handed, but (very) left eye dominant. The two often coincide, but not always.

Even if they did always coincide, I'm not sure how having better peripheral vision on one side makes it better to have that hand on the top of the stick.

[bucko 0]

this is really strange to me, cause over here there are many more left handed Players! For exmple, the teams looking to get foreign players who are right handed, specialy d-men. So for you right handed d-men with ambitions come over here!

I am asking my self why there is such a difference between northern america and the most european countrys (except eastern europe)? is it really that baseball bat thing? My dad is right handed and when i started to play i just grabed his sticks, till i noticed that i am left handed, this was kind a dilemma for me cause my dads sticks were really cool back in that days (torspos chimos sher-woods). but what i meant is, i just noticed it by my self which side is better feel for me, so im left with sticks but i am right handed, my dad is right with sticks and is also right handed.

there´s only one player i know personaly who is a lefty and goes with right sticks... <_<

[Petey21 1]

I write right handed, bat right, golf right, kick right, throw right, but shoot left.

[gavin 0]

But did you think of all those reasons when you started playing, or did you just end with with a left handed stick, then develop your reasons. Good reasons though.

Do you not think that if you started RH you would have developed the same way?

Yeah you're right I started with a straight stick and left felt more comfortable. Then when I started using a curve I just used my dad's old broken sticks, would cut them off. But ever since I was as young as I can remember, my dad has renumerated those reasons for his shooting left. I dunno maybe I heard him tell someone while I was in the womb, and from that point on I decided that if I ever got my hands on a stick I would shoot it left for the reasons that he thought that was was superior?

[aoes812 0]

I throw and write with my right hand, but I shoot lefty. My dad tried to make me shoot righty when I was little, but it felt awkward and we figured out I was a left shot.

For what this is worth: I live in the southern US (hockey isn't very prominent down here, but it's really growing but hold your redneck jokes, lol) and most of my friends are right handed, along with most of the kids. I'd say about 60-75% of all the players shoot righty down here, while I'm the odd man out. Maybe if other people shot left like me they'd have that wicked slapshot that they say I have.. :D

[supermanly 0]

My first stick was lefty, so I'm lefty, but I'm righty for everything else. My brother used the same stick to start, and he switched to righty (but then he quit).

[ponty 0]

Shoot lefty for hockey.

Swing lefty for golf.

Swing lefty for baseball but throw righty.

I am whacked.