Are you a Left Handed Pool Player

Are you a Left Handed Pool Player

  • I play primarily Left Handed

    Votes: 62 57.9%

  • I play primarily Right Handed

    Votes: 44 41.1%

  • I have no strong hand side

    Votes: 1 0.9%

  • I do not know what a strong side is

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    107
mullyman said:
Actually Mike Sigel is right handed in everything else. When he first started to play pool he thought right handed meant that you make a bridge with your right hand so that's how he learned to play. I always thought his form looked awkward and that explains it.
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I don't think the phenomenon of being right-handed but shooting pool left-handed is due to the fact that one is taught to play left-handed when young. I'm right-handed but I play pool left-handed and always have. Ever since I first picked up a cue I have just naturally played left-handed, and, like Sigel, I thought for a long time that I was playing right-handed. No one showed me how to play, I just naturally played left-handed from the start. I think the same is true of Sigel.

I think that unless someone is naturally ambidextrous that there is still a natural hand to play with, and for some reason for some right-handed people the natural hand to play with is the left hand. Sigel looks much more awkward shooting right-handed than he does left-handed.
 
I write lefty and eat lefty and thats it. Everything else I do right handed, pool, bat, throw, kick, bowl...etc.
 
Right handed

but my Dad switched me when I was 3 from a lefty, so I still do some things left handed. I play cards left handed.
 
I'm right-handed in everything so nothing special, but to add to the topic, my brother is left-handed and throws left-handed but bats right-handed. IIRC, there are something like 30 players in the history of major league baseball like that. Rickey Henderson is probably the most prominent. That statistic blew me away, though I suppose lots of guys learn to switch hit at some point.
 
I can play either, but I pretty much stick to playing right handed now. It was too much of a hassel trying to find a decent left handed cue.:eek:
 
Right Minded People

I am left handed and do everything left handed except swing a golf club or a baseball bat. My wife is left handed, my kids are left handed, and even my dog, who is left legged when he does his business!
 
Left handed people are in the right mind....

I play pool left handed, golf right handed, mouse my puter right handed, shoot (guns) with either hand, everything else I'm a lefty.......:)
 
I shoot pool left handed, but use the bridge with my right. I am right eye dominant, so I hold the cue under my right eye while I am shooting. I am naturally right handed, but do most things with either hand.
 
branpureza said:
I'm left handed but I'm not sure what you mean by strong sided...

I play

pool left handed

golf right handed

bowl left handed

throw a frisbee right handed

throw a baseball left handed

wipe me arse right handed.
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same for all... I play guitar right handed, swing a bat right handed, swing a racket left handed, play lacrosse both sides, write left handed...

Although I can do most of these things either side without much difficulty. I used to write right handed in class when I was bored. (Often)
 
another gem....

CocoboloCowboy said:
I have been noticing there are a lot of Leftie Pool players.

What side, or hand is your strong side?
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I have been noticing there are a lot of Rightie Pool players.

(Do I have a point?................. No):confused:
 
I think this illustrates the value of polls on azbilliards. Good work guys! We have just discovered where all the lefties went! They're playing pool!!!
 
PoolBum said:
I don't think the phenomenon of being right-handed but shooting pool left-handed is due to the fact that one is taught to play left-handed when young. I'm right-handed but I play pool left-handed and always have. Ever since I first picked up a cue I have just naturally played left-handed, and, like Sigel, I thought for a long time that I was playing right-handed. No one showed me how to play, I just naturally played left-handed from the start. I think the same is true of Sigel.

I think that unless someone is naturally ambidextrous that there is still a natural hand to play with, and for some reason for some right-handed people the natural hand to play with is the left hand. Sigel looks much more awkward shooting right-handed than he does left-handed.
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Well, the story I relayed is one that Mike himself told once. He said that he's right handed but when he started to play pool he thought right handed meant using your right hand for your bridge.
MULLY
 
Lefty:

Write
Shoot pool
Eat
Kick
Jump

Righty:

Golf
Bowl
Throw
Arm wrestle
Swing a bat


Man I'm a mess
 
man the poll results are weird so far. Or right-handed players just don't bother to vote, because still right-handers are dominant anywhere, pool included. And currently it shows 42-27 in favor of southpaws!
But recently I notice more lefties playing pool than ever. Interesting.
btw not to discrimminate right-handed players, but I've read left-handed are more talented in regard to pool, meaning they are more creative and the game suits them better ;)
 
mullyman said:
Well, the story I relayed is one that Mike himself told once. He said that he's right handed but when he started to play pool he thought right handed meant using your right hand for your bridge.
MULLY
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I thought the same thing, but I still naturally shoot pool left handed. You can tell with Mike that his natural coordination for shooting pool is in the left hand.
 
Left handed pool player ,throw lefty ,left arm stronger, but I write righty - (my mother - God rest her soul taught me to write at an early age - later on she said I wanted to write lefty - but she corrected me - and that is why I'm a mal-content and a mal-adjusted)

When discussing right or left with others - I ask them to interlock their fingers as when you pray - and here is what I always observed - if the left thumb is over the right thumb they are left handed - and if the right thumb is over the left thumb then they are right handed.
 
Ur right about the creativity - the late Sang Lee 3-cushion player was left handed and really creative - I understand that Blomdahl and some other Euro players studied tapes of him playing and on one 3-c tape I have of him playing Blomdahl is doing commentary and on a given position of the balls he stated that with Sang Lee you cannot predict what he would do.
 
maldito said:
When discussing right or left with others - I ask them to interlock their fingers as when you pray - and here is what I always observed - if the left thumb is over the right thumb they are left handed - and if the right thumb is over the left thumb then they are right handed.
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I'm left handed and when I interlock my fingers my right thumb is always over my left. The other way feels very awkward to me... just unnatural.
 
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