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Originally Posted by taloncarde15
After reading this discussion yesterday, went home and grabbed my old stick and was playing around with it. I realized that as a right hander, holding a stick right handed, I was trying to stickhandle with the right hand as well, even though it was down in the middle of the stick (Which might explain why I was always horrible at it)
As soon as I turned the stick around, while it felt akward, my right hand still tried to do the work, and I immediatly could tell the difference in the responsiveness of the stick.
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I realized the same thing about a year ago in a hockey class. I'd been stickhandling incorrectly for the first 12 years of my playing career, basically using both hands at the same time. Since then I've made a conscious effort to only use my top (left) hand, and I've improved dramatically. My shot is already quite strong, so now with better stickhandling I see no way that it would be worth it to switch to the left after so much time playing. It just feels way to weird trying a lefty.