Siblings with different handedness?

[Jeffrey]

If your strong hand is right and you play right handed you usualy have more power when you shoot. If you are right handed and play with a left stick you can stickhandle better.

 

[spazway49]

Matt Carle-Left
Alex Carle-Right

 

[Man Bear Pig]

I'm ambidextrous, and my brother is a righty.

I'm ambidextrous myself, my sister is right handed. I eat with my left hand, write with my right hand, shoot right handed in hockey but can shoot from both sides pretty well. I've always had the theory that sometimes when you're ambidextrous you just gotta pick a side for whatever activity you're doing and go with it

 

[Elvs]

Sheldon Brookbank (right) & Wade Brookbank (left).

 

[sr edler]

I thought that logically brothers would have the same handedness but it seems like it's more rare to have brothers who both do...

Stastnys? Sedins? Koivus?

Examples are infinite.

It's much, much, much more common siblings shoot the same than not.

I'm ambidextrous

Now that's snobby.

 

[Ducks in a row]

Don't know why anyone would be surprised by handedness of people.

 

[DennisReynolds]

Daniel is right handed while Henrik is left handed. But their stick handness is the same because I assume the parents wanted them to share the same sticks if possible.

 

[rh71]

My identical twins - one shoots left and one shoots right. They are both right-hand dominant though.

Shooting is different than having a dominant hand. Holding a stick is just what feels natural. And having your dominant hand on top is definitely much better for stick handling. Having it on the bottom is much better for wristers. Even my 6yos prove that.

Also FYI, identical doesn't actually mean identical even in looks.

 

[Alexander the Gr8]

I'm right handed and I shoot with my right hand.

My little brother is also right handed and shoots with his right hand.

 

[Jack Straw]

This is kind of a weird question but it popped in my mind when I was watching the DET/TB game and thought about the Smith brothers. Are there any siblings with different handedness?

So far I have the van Riemsdyk's brothers as an example of one being a lefty and the other a righty.

I went to school with identical twins, one was lefty and one was righty. (talking about natural handed-ness. neither played hockey)

 

[Buck Aki Berg]

For those of you posting that you have a different handedness from your sibling, are you older or younger than your sibling?

I shoot right, and my brother shoots left (we're both right-handed, though). I'm the younger brother. My theory is that the younger brother takes on a different handedness in order to "keep up" with the older brother and maintain better control of the stick with motor skills that haven't developed to the level of the older brother.

 

[cramdizzl]

I'm right handed

My brother is left handed in everything except throwing a Frisbee...It's really kind of strange if you think about it

That's exactly how I am. Righty for frisbee, beer pong, flipping pancakes, whisking, using a mouse, slappin fools... and lefty for everything else.

 

[TheCLAM]

Johansens are Different

Scarlett?

 

[garnetpalmetto]

Three out of the four Staals shoot lefty. Only Jared shoots right-handed.

 

[Pinchy]

Three out of the four Staals shoot lefty. Only Jared shoots right-handed.

Seems like that is evidence enough that Left is Best, no?

 

[Pinchy]

Its more common to have a right handed shot than a left.

I think its the opposite.

No it's not

This is not true. I played a game of pond hockey in rural Quebec and my cousin had to call half a dozen friends in order to find me a right handed stick

I read somewhere that the way you shoot is heavily determined by the sport you were taught first.

If you were taught to swing a baseball bat first, you learn to have your dominant hand closer to the point of contact, where as it's the opposite if you learned to shoot with a stick first.

This is why most Americans shoot the same way as their dominant hand. (Apparently)

Americans are more likely to shoot right and Canadians are more likely to shoot left. I think benjiv1 is probably right in the reasons why...makes sense at least.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/sports/olympics/16lefty.html

 

[Alexander the Gr8]

Seems like that is evidence enough that Left is Best, no?

The most talented player of all time, Mario Lemieux, is right handed so you're wrong.

 

[Habs Homer]

Ok I know it's not related to the thread but I shoot left in hockey, but right in golf and baseball. Am i a freak or just when I was a kid my parents bought me the wrong stick?

 

[Terry Yake]

Ok I know it's not related to the thread but I shoot left in hockey, but right in golf and baseball. Am i a freak or just when I was a kid my parents bought me the wrong stick?

no. i'm the same

except i was a switch hitter when i played baseball

 

[tony d]

Mom has 7 siblings, 1 is left handed, 1 is left and right handed and the other 6 are right handed. Both me and my sister are right handed.

 

[JetsHomer]

The most talented player of all time, Mario Lemieux, is right handed so you're wrong.

But the best two players of all time shot left so....

 

[Love]

Luke Schenn - left-handed
Brayden Schenn - right-handed

I think you got your Schenn's backwards.

 

[McMozesmadness]

Brett Ritchie - Right
Nick Ritchie - Left

 

[Alexander the Gr8]

But the best two players of all time shot left so....

It was sarcasm.

 

[MessierII]

The youngest Staal shoots right.