What The Fark 6: FARK OFF!

[dxmnkd316]

Don't play hockey but I would shoot with my right hand lower on the stick. Golf I face right if viewing from behind the tee box.

I shoot trap right handed but I'm left eye dominant.

Now, here's the question for everyone. How do you unscrew a stuck lid on a jar?

Which hand holds the lid, which holds the jar?
Which hand applies the active torque vs. which hand steadies?

[dxmnkd316]

I mean I can do it both ways but I feel a lot more confident about the left handed ones, even though that's not my dominant hand.

giggity

[French Rage]

Who the hell doesn't sweep both handed?

I mean I can do it both ways but I feel a lot more confident about the left handed ones, even though that's not my dominant hand.

[Kepler]

Is it weird that I'm right handed and shoot right handed but when I sweep the floor I sweep left handed?

Who the hell doesn't sweep both handed?

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

But UNO said it is called after the direction the blade curves. When I shoot with a curved blade it's to the right yet we all agree I am a LH shooter.

Am I just being remarkably dense (OK, average dense for me) or isn't that direct contradiction?

No, you are correct.

the NHL player on my block is a known left handed shooter, I’ll ask him if he’s out during my daily walk but it’s hot AF here so no one should be out

[French Rage]

Is it weird that I'm right handed and shoot right handed but when I sweep the floor I sweep left handed?

[aparch]

I actually had this hockey stick debate with my boss a couple months back when we were discussing right/left handed-ness. I mentioned how hockey players are usually opposite their dominant hand and he was adamant that he was right handed at *everything* including hockey.

So I explained that the little I played, I was a RH shot, with the stick on the right side of my body and blade curved to the left. He argued that I was a LH and he, who shot opposite me meaning the stick was on his left side and blade curved right, was RH.

I explained that I was taught by an NCAA D1 coach, so I hoped the coach knew what he was talking about.

It wasn't until he looked up a sporting goods store in the internet when he realized he was really a LH shot in hockey.

[burd]

Who hasn't?

A hit, a very palpable hit.

[Kepler]

It's mid morning, so UNO has been at the bottle for a couple of hours now.

Who hasn't?

[burd]

But UNO said it is called after the direction the blade curves.

It's mid morning, so UNO has been at the bottle for a couple of hours now.

[Kepler]

And you’re shooting left handed. I’m the same at hockey and golf

But UNO said it is called after the direction the blade curves. When I shoot with a curved blade it's to the right yet we all agree I am a LH shooter.

Am I just being remarkably dense (OK, average dense for me) or isn't that direct contradiction?

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

That seems opposite. When I place my left hand lower on the stick and place the blade on the ice, it curves to the right.

And you’re shooting left handed. I’m the same at hockey and golf

[Kepler]

My guess is it goes back to when curved sticks were first introduced, and they're named for the way the curve bends rather than what hand is used.

That seems opposite. When I place my left hand lower on the stick and place the blade on the ice, it curves to the right.

[The Sicatoka]

If your left hand is low on the stick the shot is coming from your left hand side --> left handed or left shot.


I'm right handed for most things but when I have one hand on the hockey stick, like poke check, it's the non-dominant hand (because I shoot hockey right handed).

[unofan]

It seems odd that we would give it a name that's the opposite of common practice -- by definition one would think the majority position would be "righty"?

But I get it -- it's the hand that guides the lever, not the pivot, as with baseball.

My guess is it goes back to when curved sticks were first introduced, and they're named for the way the curve bends rather than what hand is used.