10-09-2022, 08:51 AM
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#361
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Originally Posted by jayswin
Wow, that is some crazy stats after looking them up, contrary to playing hockey and golfing with many. GOOD LOOOOORD MAN!!! aside (edited in after the fact for dramatic effect, lol), yeah it seems over half shoot left for hockey, while a small minority golf left.
For some reason I've golfed with many lefties despite that stat, weird.
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Golf used to be an equipment issue; LH clubs were not easy to find. And most kids/beginners would try first with somebody's clubs, which were almost invariably RH.
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10-09-2022, 09:16 AM
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#362
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: Virginia
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jayswin
What is this percentage of left shooting hockey players besides large? You think that the majority of hockey players that shoot left, golf right? You "haven't actually tried to review these numbers" but still end off with a sarcastic "I guess the people you know is all that science maybe have to offer"?
Kind of a weird slam post, if you ask me. Having said that I'm completely open to being proven wrong as being wrong on this doesn't affect my life in any way.
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I can't find any reliable information online, but some estimate that 30% of Canadian golfers golf left. It is widely known in the golf business that Canada has the largest population of left handed golfers in the world, likely because of hockey.
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10-09-2022, 09:52 AM
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#363
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Van Island
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Quote:
Originally Posted by nfotiu
I can't find any reliable information online, but some estimate that 30% of Canadian golfers golf left. It is widely known in the golf business that Canada has the largest population of left handed golfers in the world, likely because of hockey.
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Yup, it’s something like 5% of all golfers on average but 20% of Canadians are lefties
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10-09-2022, 09:59 AM
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#364
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My face is a bum!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by powderjunkie
Right handed, golf/hockey/baseball swing left.
I can spike a volleyball incredibly hard right handed. But I can also spike about 85% of that power left handed with a lower error rate (net/out) than right handed...it's really handy to get around blockers). But I could not serve a volleyball left handed to save my life.
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I hated playing volleyball against guys like you. So much harder to block, and it throws off the entire defence when someone suddenly switches hitting arms.
I suck at a lot of stuff, so my oddities mean nothing, but I catch right when attempting to play in net, but catch left playing baseball.
Snowboarding, I'm regular foot, slalom water skiing, I put my right foot forward.
Edit: Also, yay Weegar! To think I was worried about the pain of sitting through an abysmal season where it was even difficult to give tickets away by the end.
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10-09-2022, 10:49 AM
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#365
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Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by nfotiu
I can't find any reliable information online, but some estimate that 30% of Canadian golfers golf left. It is widely known in the golf business that Canada has the largest population of left handed golfers in the world, likely because of hockey.
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I am thoroughly right-handed but hockey/golf left. Just feels 'right'.
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10-09-2022, 10:59 AM
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#366
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Calgary, AB
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Who is to blame for turning this thread into a discussion of left vs right handed? A week suspension should be handed out.
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10-09-2022, 11:02 AM
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#367
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^Probably one of them dirty lefties.
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10-09-2022, 01:22 PM
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#368
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Shanghai
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I am right-handed and shoot left in hockey, but the idea of swinging a lefty golf club seems so intuitively wrong to me that my brain just can't fathom it even though putting either left or right works for me.
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10-09-2022, 01:23 PM
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#369
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary, AB
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
^Probably one of them dirty lefties.
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They are quite sinister.
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10-09-2022, 01:27 PM
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#370
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
^Probably one of them dirty lefties.
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Goddamned Communists.
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10-09-2022, 06:52 PM
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#371
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#1 Goaltender
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Quote:
Originally Posted by getbak
They are quite sinister.
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Unlike those adroit righties.
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10-09-2022, 07:18 PM
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#372
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Offered up a bag of cans for a custom user title
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Westside
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Right handed, but skate and snowboard goofy, shoot and golf left, but can bat on both sides of the plate. I can bowl with either hand. I reverse my up and down on xbox.
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10-09-2022, 08:20 PM
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#373
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Scoring Winger
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Ok, in the Weeger signing thread we are now posting about which direction we snowboard.
C’mon.
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10-09-2022, 08:28 PM
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#374
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Van Island
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Quote:
Originally Posted by The Fisher Account
Ok, in the Weeger signing thread we are now posting about which direction we snowboard.
C’mon.
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It’s better than us hoping for him to sign.
This is how we celebrate!
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10-09-2022, 10:08 PM
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#375
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#1 Goaltender
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Originally Posted by The Fonz
Nobody will ever be able to convince that it’s normal to shoot left in hockey and right in golf.
All of hockey, golf, and baseball (swinging, not throwing) should be the same. To go back and forth between these sports is goofy.
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I never understood the hockey and golf connection. They're not really the same movement. Golf and baseball share more similarities IMO. Holding a hockey stick shares more in common with holding a shovel. Or a curling broom.
Last edited by kevman; 10-09-2022 at 10:14 PM.
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10-10-2022, 09:00 AM
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#376
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Our Jessica Fletcher
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Quote:
Originally Posted by kevman
I never understood the hockey and golf connection. They're not really the same movement. Golf and baseball share more similarities IMO. Holding a hockey stick shares more in common with holding a shovel. Or a curling broom.
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Completely agree.
If you’re left hand is lowest on a hockey stick, normal would also be to have your left hand lowest on a shovel and curling broom.
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10-10-2022, 09:49 AM
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#377
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Flames fan in Seattle
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Write right,
Golf/baseball/hockey Left, same motion to me in all those sports.
Racket sports right although I have a two handed backhand in ping pong 
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10-10-2022, 09:56 AM
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#378
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Crash and Bang Winger
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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
People likely don't notice because of how few people are actually left handed.
I do wonder though if a left handed person who shoots right is more comfortable on the left side than a right handed person trying to do the same.
I'm as dominant right handed as you can be...I really struggle playing on the left side of the ice. But a lot of the left handed shooting guys who were right handed told me the opposite...they'd rather be on the right side as left handed shots.
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I'm right handed right shot and I much prefer playing on the left side of the ice.
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10-10-2022, 05:19 PM
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#379
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Quote:
Originally Posted by kevman
I never understood the hockey and golf connection. They're not really the same movement. Golf and baseball share more similarities IMO. Holding a hockey stick shares more in common with holding a shovel. Or a curling broom.
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Canoe paddle. As a RH left-side swinger I prefer my right hand on the grip of the paddle, even though it means my weaker left arm is doing more work.
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10-10-2022, 06:12 PM
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#380
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Nov 2017
Location: YYZ
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Throughout history Left-handedness was seen as a sign of evil and suppressed, at times harshly.
Austrian physician and psychologist Wilhelm Stekel wrote in 1911 that “the right-hand path always signifies the way to righteousness, the left-hand path the path to crime. Thus the left may signify perversion, while the right signifies marriage, relations with a prostitute, etc.”
Not sure exactly where Wilhelm was going with that but there you have it, lefties are evil.
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