Im a righty..but shoot lefty...is it just me?

jhendri2 said:
I'm a righty that shoots lefty. The guy who taught me to shoot was a lefty so I naturally followed. With the bridge (which I VERY seldom use) I shoot righty. It works for me though.

Jim
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Ahhhh.....I can't wait to tell everyone at the pool room about all you guys that are just like me!!!....lmao. I have a daughter that is right handed as well, but she also plays left-handed and uses the bridge right-handed....guess she naturally followed too!

Christyd :)
 
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christyd said:
Ahhhh.....I can't wait to tell everyone at the pool room about all you guys that are just like meChristyd :)
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Christy you have finally found people just like you :) I dont know if I should be happy for you, or sad for them :D :D :D :D :D
 
Righty/lefty

BigLip said:
should i switch??? i cant shoot for crap using my left hand as a bridge and my right hand to stroke..
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I don't think it matters as long as you can get comfortable. However comfort seems less an issue today than a few years ago because it doesn't seem (to me) players rely on stamina as much as they used to...but maybe I'm out of touch with those so consumed.
I rationalize it is easier to get into position (lead eye over and aligned with the cue) to aim if your lead eye is on the same side as your bridge hand...but this is not the norm. I tend to favor my lead eye (compensate) by slightly by turning my head...which I believe affects sighting. My head seems to naturally want to turn when I open my stance to the cue (extend my bridge hand forward and my rear hand back), this feels comfortable to me...particularly on shots where I get (my height of eye) down real low. Say, a long shot off the rail using high english. In this position the cue rubs my beard, under my chin.
I however, am truly ambidextrous at most things...but due to an injury to my left hand, I swapped hands for many of my activities...pool not being one of them. I'm not real sure how dominant my lead eye is. All I am sure that matters is getting your lead eye in line with the cue so you can aim.
Mi dos centavos, you be the judge.
 
Ahhh...yea...when I first picked up a cue I did it that way...no one has ever showed me how to play so I wasn't sure if it was better the other way for a straighter stroke...
 
Just curious

Jude Rosenstock said:
I write righty, throw righty, shoot righty, eat righty, and flip the bird lefty. I'm serious. I think that's the only thing I consistently do with my left hand.
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Do you really flip the bird with such regularity that you can remember wich hand is most often used?
 
Razor_Blade said:
Do you really flip the bird with such regularity that you can remember wich hand is most often used?
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Actually, the real reason why I would know such a thing is that I can't rotate my right wrist to the appropriate flipping angle so I always use my left!
 
Southpaw

In the shooting sports (shotgun, rifle & pistol) one shoots according to his dominant eye. Yes we are left, right, cross dominant or equal dominant). It's the same when you shoot pool if you want the best results.

I know 2 good players that write and do many things right handed, but shoot guns and billiards left handed.
 
Yeah, shooting last night when I pay attention to what's going on I do alright even on the long shots but I noticed that it's the slow roll shots that seem to not hit where I want them to hit.

So it's just me not the the fact that I shoot left handed...

What's more is when I do miss most times I feel something awkward at some point during the stroke and know something wasn't right. I just thought that awkwardness was from shooting w/ the wrong side but probably fundamentals since I don't have any.
 
slow roll

Slow roll shots give everyone trouble, more can go wrong slow rolling, especially long slow roll shots. I am not a soft shooter, I can shoot the slow finesse
shots, but I don't unless I have to. Like break out shots, I don't do soft break
out shots very often at all, because it is so easy to misjudge the speed, and then you are in trouble before you know it. I will usually shoot harder and go an extra rail with my cueball to be safe rather than the slow barely get there finesse that little window type of shot.
 
I went to a Catholic school.

For starters, ( I think ) I'm a natural lefty. Nuns were not cool about that. I used to get my hand hit for doing things left handed.

Until fairly recent, most stuff available was designed for right handed users. ( think scissors )

Seeing as though so much of the cards were stacked against leftys, I think alot of us learned to cope within a right handed world and can do a variety of things both handed, and do them well.

I can do so many things with both hands ( including writing ) that my wife insists that I am in fact ambidextrous as opposed to being lefty.

I sure enjoy not having to use a bridge very often :)

Dave
 
Now I have a good one for everyone, I shoot left handed do just about everything else right handed but the weird thing is my draw stroke is better shooting right handed. I don't have near the control with my right hand but I can shoot fine, even on a 9footer I almost never need the bridge. I never could draw left handed for like the first 3years I played, but I could right handed.
 
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