John Morra plays left handed now

terryhanna

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I am watching John play Warren Kiamco now at he $7000 Added Amarillo Slim's Joe Soliz Open 9-Ball.

And he has switched from playing right handed to left handed :eek:

He was having issues with his shoulder because he played so left eye dominant and kept his cue way off to his left hand side.

He has been playing left handed the last couple of months now.

Old right handed

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New left handed

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I feel bad for him. Morra was playing great right handed before his injury/ailment. It is very doubtful he could ever reach the same level left handed
 
westcoast said:
I feel bad for him. Morra was playing great right handed before his injury/ailment. It is very doubtful he could ever reach the same level left handed
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He played really well against Warren he lost 11-9 but it was pretty impressive the way he played to be honest..
 
terryhanna said:
He played really well against Warren he lost 11-9 but it was pretty impressive the way he played to be honest..
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That is very impressive. I'm not trying to knock his left handed ability. I'm just saying that he was really becoming a world class player before the ailment. It would really be difficult to reach that level of play with your weak hand.

By the way, does he break left handed too?
 
westcoast said:
That is very impressive. I'm not trying to knock his left handed ability. I'm just saying that he was really becoming a world class player before the ailment. It would really be difficult to reach that level of play with your weak hand.

By the way, does he break left handed too?
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Yep, he does everything left handed break, jump he did shoot a hard to reach shot right handed.

He moved from Canada to the tip of Texas and now he plays left handed lol
 
I'm really curious why he switched. Morra is the only player I've ever heard of to switch hands. Cecil Tugwell is the other. I saw him play jam up onepocket left handed and then someone told me he was originally a right hander who played even bettter, but had to switch due to an injury incurred in a car wreck or something like that.

In any event, I'm amazed that anyone can ever switch...I'm left dominant all the way. Can't throw with my right hand, can't kick with my right foot worth a damn.
 
westcoast said:
I feel bad for him. Morra was playing great right handed before his injury/ailment. It is very doubtful he could ever reach the same level left handed
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Dont feel bad. He’s pool’s second best off-handed shooter, and he could switch to left-handed at any time. The injury didn’t force him to relearn how to shoot. I assume he’s pretty ambidextrous.

I believe he’s won Canadien tournaments left-handed, and he was on a stream in action against Alcano left-handed. Ronnie was using the bridge every shot. Neither looked handicapped.

In other words, I do think he can reach the same ability shooting left-handed.


Freddie <~~~ can’t chew gum left-handed
 
Cornerman said:
Dont feel bad. He’s pool’s second best off-handed shooter, and he could switch to left-handed at any time. The injury didn’t force him to relearn how to shoot. I assume he’s pretty ambidextrous.

I believe he’s won Canadien tournaments left-handed, and he was on a stream in action against Alcano left-handed. Ronnie was using the bridge every shot. Neither looked handicapped.

In other words, I do think he can reach the same ability shooting left-handed.


Freddie <~~~ can’t chew gum left-handed
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Maybe even better. I would think that is likely why he switched.
 
He played the Canadian Championships this year lefty and played very well. His girlfriend from Texas was here also cheering him on. Guess he moved down there to be with her.

Hope he does well there!
 
Cornerman said:
Dont feel bad. He’s pool’s second best off-handed shooter, and he could switch to left-handed at any time. The injury didn’t force him to relearn how to shoot. I assume he’s pretty ambidextrous.

I believe he’s won Canadien tournaments left-handed, and he was on a stream in action against Alcano left-handed. Ronnie was using the bridge every shot. Neither looked handicapped.

In other words, I do think he can reach the same ability shooting left-handed.


Freddie <~~~ can’t chew gum left-handed
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I was watching John play on that Canadien tourney stream and, in fact, l just commented on it the other day in another thread. It looked as if John didn't miss a beat playing off-handed.

And yes, he did win that tourney.

A s-m-o-o-t-h operator...

best,
brian kc
 
He Came in 2nd in Canadian 10 Ball to Alex. I was told due to the contortions to his neck to get his dominant eye over the cue, he switched hands.
 
My guess is he needs to get a gym membership and start lifting. He might be surprised how those aches and pains go away.
 
I know a guy who is a good solid A player that can play very consistently right or left handed
 
I'm a right handed player .

A long time ago a friend of mine told me I should learn to play left handed, that was 25 years ago. I do play left handed when needed and play quite well.

Learn to play with your opposite hand, it's worth it. :) It will become natural to you after a while.

John
 
I would say about 5% of my shots are made left handed. I am right handed with a dominant right eye.
 
i am trying to learn but my stroke is so wobbly it looks like a corkscrew....:embarrassed2::embarrassed2:
 
He'll definitely be better now that he switched. I'm a right-hand player, but whenever my stroke is feeling off, I switch to my left hand and it helps me get back in line. For whatever reason, my form on my left side never wavers. I played a lot of games lefty, never a tournament though.
 
I was at a tournament once and this sketchy dude from our area told me he had eaten acid and was going to try playing left handed.

I saw him get on a table in the corner and play for a good long time and no BS, he didn't miss a ball for like an hour.

True story. Dude was a weirdo.
 
You never know how ambidextrous you can be unless you force yourself to try (most think it futile & thus never bother). I recently quizzed a player I had just met who quite casually switched hands and seemed equally competent, only to discover he was a natural lefty who had been forced in grade school to write with the right hand (they taped his left fingers so he couldn’t hold a pen). He became generally right-handed, but nature is not so easily suppressed.

BTW: I believe an old hustler’s trick was to start out playing left handed, and then when the fish thought he had the guy’s speed figured and offered to bump the stakes way up (and put his whole bankroll on the line), the hustler would then switch hands & run out.
 
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