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This has been a topic I've been curious about for quite some time, and due to recent drunken thoughts about the effects of this topic on scheming in football, I have to ask: why do Canadians train hockey players to use their non-dominant hand in the opposite way as the rest of the world?
To clarify: I'm discussing hand dominance as traditionally defined -- what hand do you write with, which is kind of aligned with your dominant eye (look that one up), and other neural pathways.
CA goalies glove hand is their dominant hand. CA skaters tend to be "lefty" because their dominant hand (right hand) is at the butt of the stick. That is completely opposite of the rest of the hockey playing -- or generally existing -- world. You don't see batters, or cricketers (terminology?) taking swings with their non-dominant hand leading.
Anyone have insights?
On a personal note, I find this fascinating because I play several instruments, and depending on which I'm playing one hand becomes relatively more useless than the other in certain respects (when playing guitar my left hand is fine, when I transition to a keyboard instrument it's less useful).
To clarify: I'm discussing hand dominance as traditionally defined -- what hand do you write with, which is kind of aligned with your dominant eye (look that one up), and other neural pathways.
CA goalies glove hand is their dominant hand. CA skaters tend to be "lefty" because their dominant hand (right hand) is at the butt of the stick. That is completely opposite of the rest of the hockey playing -- or generally existing -- world. You don't see batters, or cricketers (terminology?) taking swings with their non-dominant hand leading.
Anyone have insights?
On a personal note, I find this fascinating because I play several instruments, and depending on which I'm playing one hand becomes relatively more useless than the other in certain respects (when playing guitar my left hand is fine, when I transition to a keyboard instrument it's less useful).
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