Can you play decent pool using both your right and left hands?

This is weird, I can cast a fly better with my left than my right. If I tried to cast a spin rig with the left, I'd hook my ear. I can shoot a revolver at a very high level right handed, with the left, just as well but twice as long.

If I shot pool left handed I'd poke an eye out.
 
I'm terrible left handed but I'm pretty good with the crutch. First exposure to pool as a kid was snooker. You need to be good with the crutch on those tables.
 
I can play a little with the off hand (left) but it is really limited.
In basic “good form” stance and position, I stink it up badly. But if I tuck the elbow in and shoot
“Sidewinder” I can do a bit better.
Of course I look like Mr Bean and Jerry Lewis’s love child.
 
Buzzard II said:
This is weird, I can cast a fly better with my left than my right. If I tried to cast a spin rig with the left, I'd hook my ear. I can shoot a revolver at a very high level right handed, with the left, just as well but twice as long.

If I shot pool left handed I'd poke an eye out.
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Odd you mention this. I was just out this morning. Our property backs onto a top notch trout river here in western Canada. Water fast from mountain melt run off so I was using a spinning rod.

I never noticed that I cast with my right...although I’m left handed. I throw balls, etc with my left.
 
My left hand is not natural but with 2 weeks of daily practice 2-3h I could get 96 break on snooker. Starting level was awful. Just copy paste your skills from right hand and go. :D
Actually hardest part is getting bridge hand done right place and proper form. especially on rail and over the ball shots.
My hint is to: first just shoot left handed is without caring if u make a ball and focus just learning bridge hands..
 
I can crush a Volkswagen with my right hand. I can't unzip my pants with my left... :D:D:D
 
I am horrendous shooting left handed- can't be counted on to make even the simplest of shots.

That is part of the reason I shoot with a 6 inch extension. I also really don't feel comfortable using the rake.

I have my own table so there really is no excuse. I could take some time practicing left handed but don't really feel like it :o
 
I am about 75% with my left, Can break pretty good every other time, jumps are out of the question, but straight shots are pretty reliable, extreme cuts are tough, but they always are,
 
Both sides

I do try to play right handed and can have some success. Most of my other sports I play right handed but have always played lefty for pool. I am right eye dominant and I think I can site the line better righty which is the reason I have toyed with the idea of switching permanently to righty. But it is hard on certain shots and I most likely will just keep using my right hand when it is useful to me in a game.
Paul
 
The only shots I can shoot lefty are the one's I can't reach with my right.

Over the years I've taught myself how to make those specific shots. Any others, fergetaboutit.

Lou Figueroa
 
No, I can't play with both hands. I haven't put any practice time towards it.

It is a good thing to have in your gambling arsenal.
 
NO and John didn't go from left handed spaz to ace in one year. He was basically ambidextrous the whole time. JMHO
 
animatedvmaker said:
I was just thinking about John Morra, and wondered how he was able to switch playing hands (due to some sort of injury), and get back to a pretty high level, playing left handed .

I just think it is amazing what he was able to do, but I wonder if maybe he learned to play both left a right handed from an early age, but chose to just play right handed , because that was where he got most of his power from.

I know, I could probably write him on Facebook, and ask him this question myself, but I am just too shy to write him, lol.

Always been a big fan of John Morra . He is such a great players . Always loved the way he walked around the pool table, and his slow and controled way of playing .

Anyways, if you were to get injured in same way where you had to switch playing hands, in order to keep playing pool, do you think you could get to a fairly good level of playing , with time and practice ?

I knew this high school kid back in the Ninetees , and he was a pretty good player , and could play equally as good with either hand, it seemed.

That type of thing always really impressed me.

Maybe it is just laziness , but I do not think I could ever be able to play decent at all left handed.

I assume it is something that would take years of practice , and a lot of hard work, for hours a day practicing .

Do you think that John Morra was really able to get that good within a years time, during the time when he was not competing ?
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I,m a right handed person(i do EVERYTHING right handed,except play pool) and even so,i cannot make a ball right handed unless its a hanger near a pocket...i,m a decent player (can beat the 6 ball ghost) and can’t make a ball (I cannot SEE where i,m aiming) with rhe opposite hand.
 
I very seldom use a bridge. Unless the shot is not reachable on a 9 ft. table, I just do not use a bridge.
Instead, I learned 40 years ago to shoot left handed. I play a game called Switcheroo. It’s fun to play.

You switch hands every other shot so the easiest position play for your opposite hand is really very key.
I can run a rack right handed but change the game to Switcheroo, well, then it’s not as easy anymore.
 
I'm right handed but started playing lefty 20 years ago for a short while when I broke my right hand.
When I started at about 14 my dad begged me to play both ways, and one -handed. I would rank APA 3+ lefty or 1 hand now, need to practice more.
Dad also begged me back then to play one-pocket, straight pool, and French Pool, (61).
Thus and tons of other things he told me I surely regret not listening!
 
This is something I enjoy. I, like many grew playing opposite handed. Over the years I did

not realize this. Quick question, for all the opposite handed players out there, what hand do you

use the bridge with? I shot horrible with my right hand, for the same reasons many have

said, eye placement. I cut my tendons in my bridge hand several years ago, and if I wanted

to play, it would be opposite handed. It was tough, until I moved my vision center over the cue.

Now I play well, mostly because I don't try anything extreme, you know 3 rail stroke shots.

Keeping it simple playing with my right hand, made me realize how much more I spin

and get into trouble playing with my left. With that being said, it wasn't about the

technique, it was more about the visuals that will make you a more proficient opposite

handed player.
 
I’m right handed and shoot most shots that way. I don’t shy away from shooting lefty when it comes up. My dad is a lefty and I hate taking the time to get the rake off the rack. So, I just shoot it off handed. I’m probably 75% or better. I can draw the ball a couple feet or stop shot if necessary. No breaking or jumping though. My left handed bridge isn’t good enough for that level of skill. :thumbup:
 
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