Is being left handed an advantage or disadvantage.

Good to hear that i'm out here not the only left handed player.

But only that sin/bin time, is that because your left or because you deserve it.
I.m in 10 years only ones trown out the game for 1 minut. And that games is declared "not played" so i can still say that i in competition never been trown out.
In fact the other 3 left handed players in my team also have no tot little time in the sin/bin.

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When you are good, then you are not bad..

2 cents... its definitely an advantage to be a lefty in a mainly right handed world.

its a tad harder to dummy a lefty cos you have to fade around their glove if your right handed and moving the puck to the right like that isnt as inherently strong an action as moving it to the left as you would to dummy a right hander.

its not any harder to tackle them... you just might have to use a different type of tackle.

a lefty has a better selection of tackle options on one side of the pool where the righty has those options on the other side... also depends if they are facing forward or backward, but i definitely don't agree with the right wall comment.

fouling... i dont think leftys foul more or get called any more then righties. any time theres a tangle the right handed player is just as likely to get binned, and i've only really seen tangles like that in big games a couple of times, it generally comes from one or both players making big mistakes on their positioning and then taking terrible tackle options.

if you find yourself in the bin all the time, surely you shouldn't be looking at your stick for the answer?

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it's more polite on the grating than on the subs bench

The lefties I have played against all seem to use that little foul where they knock your hand away from the puck as they are going in to pick the puck up on the hook side of their bats. (both players facing same way)

So quick and impossible for refs to spot! grrr

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mmm, a righty can do that too though if they have their stick inverted

or are trying to pull off some magnificent looking back-tackle, ay benson. hahaha.

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it's more polite on the grating than on the subs bench

Hello Lena,

I think you are describing the foul most commonly inflicted on lefties by unskilled righties, where the rightie does not know how to tackle a leftie, when they are sticks side together (ie right handed players on the right, left handed player on the left, both travelling in the same direction). Although in your case, it is a left handed player how is fouling first. I supose we had better coach these players on how to tackle correctly in this situation.

cheers.

what is the correct way to tackle in this situation ? is this the same senario Jols described ?

it seems like a 'damned if you do, damned if you dont' scenario, and if it is impossible not to get tangled up in this situation how strict are referees on this ? is it a simple free puck to the opposition or can you actually get sin binned for it ? (or does it matter where in the pool with happens ie. a run on goal will get punished more severely than a melee in the middle of the pool ?)

Same scenario I think, except one correction to Southerpuck..

I think he means stickside together (as he said), but then the right handed player is on the LEFT and the lefty on the RIGHT so that their stick arms are in the middle, so to speak.

The best way to tackle in that situation is I think not to get into that situation. If you did, it is because you fluffed it earlier somehow. If it can't be avoided, then don't swim along next to him, but try to approach him from his 'blindspot' (above his stick side ear) and only play for the puck when you are sure it is in reach. Make sure you get the puck first, knock it off his stick out sideways and then turn on the puck and drop so that you sit on his head.

Or, simply play forward and leave the tackling to others.


By the way, Tippas, don't care if you are a lefty or a righty, you have made my team for calling me Superjols :-)

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Faster than a speeding puck...

just hold your stick out with the hook pointing up, drop the front edge of your stick over the top of their stick and push the puck across the glove with the bottom face of your stick. as in any chasing tackle, the further in front of the opposition you are the easier it is to execute... the further back you are the harder it is until you cant reach the puck and all you can do is try to reach it, and run the opp until they turn or you hit a wall or corner (hopefully you can keep them away from the goal!)

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it's more polite on the grating than on the subs bench

Hey Atapene,

Yep, agree with the technique, however... the Dutch usually have a lot of lefties - in Sheffield we had two in the forwards. Nearly every time they backtackled a right hander using this very technique they were called for gloving/stick foul/something. Don't ask me why, since I have looked at some of the videos and the tackle looks clean.

Technique is good, but refs seem to see something there that makes it susceptable to misinterpretation.

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Faster than a speeding puck...

Hello Atapene,

I must try and teach that to the righties in our club that regularly foul me. There is only one problem, they normally are behind me and just try and come through my arm/stick/glove/hand before making contact with the puck.

cheers,