At 03:30 PM 11/14/95 -0500, Todd Myrick wrote:
 
>If you are a "right-handed" person (ie, write, bat, throw, golf) right-handed
>and you play hockey, do you usually hold a hockey stick and shoot that way?
 
Yes and no.  My natural tendency is told shoot right when armed with a
regular forward stick.  Unfortunately, in goal I'm forced to shoot left, a
condition I've yet to master...  In fact, there's nothing I envy more than a
goalie who can rip a precision pass the length of the ice or bank a clearing
shot high off the boards.
 
As for my opponents, I'd say there's a fair mix of both, which is a little
bit surprising.  I seem to recall that less than 10% of the population is
left-handed.  This jives with the number of lefty golfers I've run into.
Hockey players seem to approach 50-50, though, and I know a lot of left
shooters are really right handed.  Could it be that left-curve sticks are a
lot more readily available to players for experimentation than left-handed
golf clubs?  Or is it due to hockey players' innate creativity overcoming
instinctive handedness?
 
Hmm...I feel a PhD dissertation topic emerging... :)
 
Regards,
Mark
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