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  • Originally posted by The Sicatoka View Post

    Wouldn't that be the lefty way?


    I've got one that'd make their AI simmer (and I've never figured it out): I shovel snow (and grain and dirt) left handed; I played hockey right handed.
    I think people usually handle a hockey stick in reverse of their handedness.

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    • Originally posted by burd View Post

      I think people usually handle a hockey stick in reverse of their handedness.
      I hold my left hand lower on the stick. Is that RH or LH? (I bat RH but write LH).
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      • Originally posted by Kepler View Post

        I hold my left hand lower on the stick. Is that RH or LH? (I bat RH but write LH).
        Thats considered Lefty.
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        • Originally posted by RaceBoarder View Post

          Thats considered Lefty.
          So the majority of players are lefty?
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          • Originally posted by Kepler View Post

            So the majority of players are lefty?
            In hockey? yes. Because most people have their dominant hand at the top of the stick.

            I'm righthanded in everything else but use a lefty stick.

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            • Originally posted by unofan View Post

              In hockey? yes. Because most people have their dominant hand at the top of the stick.

              I'm righthanded in everything else but use a lefty stick.
              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.
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              • Originally posted by Kepler View Post

                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.

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                • 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).
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                  • Originally posted by unofan View Post

                    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.
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                    • Originally posted by Kepler View Post

                      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

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                      • Originally posted by Deutsche Gopher Fan View Post

                        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?
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                        • Originally posted by Kepler View Post

                          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.

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                          • Originally posted by burd View Post

                            It's mid morning, so UNO has been at the bottle for a couple of hours now.
                            Who hasn't?
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                            • Originally posted by Kepler View Post

                              Who hasn't?
                              A hit, a very palpable hit.

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                              • 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.
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