How good are you with your opposite hand?

Straightpool_99

Straightpool_99

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Just curious: How well do you guys play opposite handed? I am VERY right handed and cant do anything properly with my left hand. I can make shots as long as they are easy and not too far from the pocket, but thats it. I have no stroke or touch at all with my left hand. Do you guys practice with your opposite hand a lot, or at all? Edit: Since I stink with my left hand, I've learned to play one handed "spear" style, I've even learned to jump this way when I can't reach normally. Good for the occational wager;). Anyone else doing that?
 
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Good enough that I can shoot simple shots that don't require much English.

The use of an extension or a bridge kills most peoples chances of ever needing to play both right and left handed.
 
Straightpool_99 said:
Just curious: How well do you guys play opposite handed? I am VERY right handed and cant do anything properly with my left hand. I can make shots as long as they are easy and not too far from the pocket, but thats it. I have no stroke or touch at all with my left hand. Do you guys practice with your opposite hand a lot, or at all? Edit: Since I stink with my left hand, I've learned to play one handed "spear" style, I've even learned to jump this way when I can't reach normally. Good for the occational wager;). Anyone else doing that?
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I do the one handed thing sometimes. I find that interesting. Left handed is another world I should play that way more.
 
I'm adequate with my left hand as long as it's not a power stroke shot. I can pocket medium shots and stroke about half power before my fundamentals break down.
 
Bad, astonishingly bad actually. But as someone stated, with extensions and bridges it's not a skill I've spent time on improving.
 
I play about the 7 ball under my right playing left handed. I am not affraid to play shape with english or bank opposite handed at all. I am a strong B player left handed.
 
I can hardly play with my right.

I play just slightly worse than that with my left.



BasementDweller <~~~ doing my best Cornerman imitation
 
I think I play about 70% speed with my left compared to my right. It comes in handy a lot, and truthfully I hardly notice that I am switching hands sometimes. I however cannot break left handed.
 
I'm okay with my left hand when you consider that most off-handed shot tend to be close to a pocket.

The difficulty for me is speed control. I always seem to overrun position when I shoot left-handed.
 
I cannot even get in a correct stance for a lefty shot. I've tried and given up years ago. Funny that I was thinking about it 2 days ago before this thread even came up. I then tried to do a simple crossword puzzle lefty and most of what I did was to make 1st grader's scrawls. I quit aboout half way thorugh. Mitch
 
I can't even choke the chicken/spank the monkey left handed.:D I use a bridge if needed. If you practice with it, and have the proper form, it's easy to get the correct angle and speed.
 
Not very good. If playing a real game I'll get the bridge out instead. When practicing by myself I do take left handed shots, in part because I'm too lazy to grab the bridge sometimes and in part because I hope to eventually improve. I've gotten a little better, I can make short shots close to the pocket and play with draw/follow, but anything beyond a very short shot is likely a miss.
 
Lousy w/left hand. That's why we have bridges. Part of game that doesn't get much practice. It's all in the mind.
 
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