Who Plays The Best Opposite Handed?

worriedbeef said:
Anyway just one thing, although playing opposite handed is maybe fun to do and a cool skill - what's the point? the bridge is not difficult to use and requires only a fraction of the time to achieve the same level of competency as with your other hand. i mean if it's something you just want to learn to do then fine, but imo it's usefulness is overrated.
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It is always better to feel the shaft of your cue on your bridge hand. You can easily vary the bridge height. Tip placement on the cueball is far more accurate with a normal pendulum stroke. When shooting with a rest, technique changes a lot and that darts stroking motion is inferior no matter how good you are with it. Simply put, if your opposite hand is steady and behaves well, you better use it.
I don't think Ronnie O'Sullivan honed his left handed skills just to show off. And he still plays better with the rest than majority of other players.
 
2 guys from my neck of the woods that might not be at the top of the food chain but play awful damn good off-handed are Marco Marquez and John Zaksas. If memory serves me correctly, I mentioned this in thread a while back.
I have gambled with both of them in the past (off-handed) and I can tell you it was no picnic.
 
It is always better to feel the shaft of your cue on your bridge hand. You can easily vary the bridge height. Tip placement on the cueball is far more accurate with a normal pendulum stroke. When shooting with a rest, technique changes a lot and that darts stroking motion is inferior no matter how good you are with it. Simply put, if your opposite hand is steady and behaves well, you better use it.
I don't think Ronnie O'Sullivan honed his left handed skills just to show off. And he still plays better with the rest than majority of other players.
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i still think it's usefulness is overrated. :)

there's only a very small area of the table which you can't reach, and a small amount of practice with the bridge will allow you do do more or less whatever you want with the cue ball. as opposed to the hours and hours you need to put in for even a stop shot to feel comfortable with your other hand. and even the best players with their opposite hands don't shoot the tough shots opposite handed. i mean if you watch ronnie's left handed century video, every time he needs to put a little extra on whitey to force the cue ball round, or to stun to the rail and back or break up the reds, he switched to his right hand. not knocking him of course - his skill level with his left hand is amazing. but even he only takes the standard shots left handed and he's been playing left handed for over eight years!

Having said that, I will learn to play a bit with my other hand at some point, simply because it looks cool. and when i do clumsily make a ball sometimes with my opposite hand it does feel strangely satisfying. Kinda like learning to play the game again. We're all good at pool on here to a degree, and it's hard to comprehend sometimes how some of the bangers we see cant even hold the cue or take a shot without miscuing. The second we switch our cue to our other arm however we know how they feel!
 
Southpaw said:
Just wondering if anyone had any good stories seeing people match up and play opposite handed. I play pretty well opposite handed and have caught a few people getting out of line offering me huge spots that way. I think the best I have ever seen play opposite handed is Tony Watson.

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Go up to a righthanded player and offer to play them lefty (as Ive already assumed you are infact lefty) and you'll be surprised how many of them dont realize that people dont all play righthanded.

Ive got all kinds of spots this way, even when I warm up playing lefty, play every week lefty etc. It just doesnt click with those rightys. ha!
 
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Southpaw said:
Just wondering if anyone had any good stories seeing people match up and play opposite handed. I play pretty well opposite handed and have caught a few people getting out of line offering me huge spots that way. I think the best I have ever seen play opposite handed is Tony Watson NOT INTERESTED
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halhoule said:
Southpaw said:
Just wondering if anyone had any good stories seeing people match up and play opposite handed. I play pretty well opposite handed and have caught a few people getting out of line offering me huge spots that way. I think the best I have ever seen play opposite handed is Tony Watson NOT INTERESTED
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in pool, I'd say Efren reyes is the best.

but overall snooker+pool. i'd say Ronnie O'Sullivan with no doubt the best opposite handed player. and if you didn't see him, go check youtube, he is capable of running the snooker table with opposite handed. its awesome
 
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