mojomark
9 months ago
I've always thought the right handed guitar was actually left-handed. I'm a lefty and play a 'right handed" guitar, but all the dexterity needed is in the left hand (pressing the fret board in intricate ways).
For things that require two hands, like hitting a hockey puck, I think one needs to take a close look at the dynamics involved to see where the dominant dexterity is actually truly most influential over an action being taken, before you can assign it a "handedness". Maybe, they just assigned the wrong "handedness" to hockey stick holding position.
john_the_writer
9 months ago
But for Hockey it's not a case of handedness.. Sticks come in both hands. So it's as if you had a pile of left and right handed guitars.
mojomark
9 months ago
That's not my point. My point was that, even with hockey sticks that are symmetrical, there is an asymmetry to hand functions/position. If you look at what they call "left-handed" stick, the blade is on the left hand side of the body. That means your left hand is holding the stick in the middle - like a fulcrum. The hand that is in the middle, on the fulcrum, feels to me like it has less "fine" control over the angle of the blade than the hand at the a end of the stick. So, why not call that "right-handed."