Siblings with different handedness?

[Kobe Armstrong]

I'm eating fruit snacks with my left hand and typing this with my right hand

 

[The Nuge]

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)

I don't buy it. I'm right handed, and shoot left, but golf right, and bat switch (prefer left). It's just whatever feels natural.

 

[sepHF]

for the Staal brothers Eric, Marc and Jordan all shoot left but Jared shoots right... maybe thats why he sucks? He's holding his stick the wrong way!

 

[SenzZen]

My dad is a lefty and I am a righty.

I have a theory that most people out East are lefties and most people out West are righties

Me too. We're both right-handed, but I always figured I tried to "mirror" him when I was little.

 

[Jackothy]

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

I actually burst out laughing at that...

 

[ToewsForDays]

Jonathan Toews - Left
David Toews - Right

 

[Johnny GODreau]

Jonathan Toews - Left
David Toews - Right

And there's your problem. David should've been a righty.

 

[garyjones93]

Two guys I knew from school were twins both played a little bit in the OHL they had different handedness.

 

[Gr8one]

Arguably the most accomplished siblings in NHL history were opposite handed,

Maurice Richard - Left
Henri Richard - Right

 

[Ogrezilla]

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

I think identical twins have a very high likelihood of having one lefty and one righty. According to wikipedia, about 10% of people are left handed. About 17% of people with a twin are left handed. About 21% of people with identical twins are left handed.

 

[Jack Straw]

I think identical twins have a very high likelihood of having one lefty and one righty. According to wikipedia, about 10% of people are left handed. About 17% of people with a twin are left handed. About 21% of people with identical twins are left handed.

Interesting. I didn't know that.

 

[Ogrezilla]

Interesting. I didn't know that.

I only ever looked it up because I know three sets of twins, each with one lefty and one righty.

 

[nerdman60]

Pavel Bure is left, Valeri Bure is right

 

[McOilers97]

I'm pretty sure that handedness in hockey is pretty much determined by how you first pick up a stick as a kid. There's no other rhyme or reason why in a world where 89% of people write with their right hand, that roughly 2/3 of hockey players shoot left.

 

[sr edler]

Pavel Bure is left, Valeri Bure is right

 

[Makar Goes Fast]

im right and my friend is left

 

[Pietrangelbro]

My dad and brother both shoot left and I shoot right.

I read on here a while back that there was a link found between playing baseball and handedness - If you played baseball before hockey, you are more likely to shoot right since your dominant hand will be on the bottom for power (assuming you're right handed). If you play hockey first or never play baseball, you're more likely to shoot left since it is more beneficial to have your dominant hand on top for control.

Out of my dad, my brother, and I, I was the only one to play baseball before hockey.

 

[PALE PWNR]

I'm pretty sure that handedness in hockey is pretty much determined by how you first pick up a stick as a kid. There's no other rhyme or reason why in a world where 89% of people write with their right hand, that roughly 2/3 of hockey players shoot left.

A lot of people that are right hand dominant feel more comfortable with their right hand on the top of the stick. Think about a defensemen poke checking a puck, a lot of times you'll only have one hand on the stick, would you want the stick in your 1 dominant hand or non dominant hand? It's just semantics that its called left handed because the stick is on the left side of your body.

 

[DazedandConfused]

I have the strength of a new born if I play lefty in every single sport involving a stick like object.

 

[leafsgirl12]

Ryan Strome is a RH shot while Dylan Strome is a LH shot.

There is another storme brother Matthew Storme and he has a LH Shot

 

[Shredator]

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

True and False

In Canada they sell more left handed sticks

In USA they sell more right handed sticks.

In the NHL there are more lefties than righties.

 

[PALE PWNR]

For the record. I write, throw, swing a tennis racket, and shoot a basketball, right handed. I swing a baseball bat, golf club, lacrosse stick, and hockey stick left handed. I need my dominant hand at the end of any type of swinging instrument.

And I learned hockey first but baseball at relatively the same time.

I can switch hit in baseball Ok, I can make solid contact either way but I definitely have way more power and it feels more natural lefty. I couldn't even begin to fathom trying to golf or play hockey righty though

 

[Hansen]

Henrik and Daniel Sedin write with opposite hands but play left.

 

[stubbadub]

I write left handed, shoot right, throw right. My brother writes right handed, shoots left, swings baseball right. I can't explain it at all. I blame it on my parents' divorce.

 

[dubey]

I thought this said siblings with different handshakes

I find that more likely than OP's