MOST ARE WRONG ABOUT THIS! (left or right hand hockey sticks)

Most new hockey players do not actually know how to pick their own handedness. In fact, it is much more complicated than simply selecting a right handed stick if you are a righty or a left handed stick if you are a lefty. 2/3rds of NHL hockey players shoot on the left side of their body, but 85-90% of the world are right handed, why is that? We get to the bottom of these questions in this video.
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0:00 - INTRO
0:33 - Handedness in Hockey
1:57 - Curves of a Hockey Stick
2:40 - Recap of Handedness Meaning
3:05 - First School of Thought: Top Hand is the Dominant Hand
5:41 - Second School of Thought: Bottom Hand is the Dominant Hand
6:28 - Key Takeaway
6:37 - Why People Are Wrong About Handedness in Hockey
7:28 - Giveaway every 10k Subscribers
7:41 - How to Select What Side to Shoot On
9:15 - OUTRO
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[@manjohari]

Dexterity can be trained regardless which side is dominant. Another factor to consider is dominant eye, where tennis players use it to determine how they handle and position their racket.

[@maisierogers6020]

i've been wondering about this for ages and got this video randomly recommended - so glad i did ! really helpful - and such a well made video :)

[@pajerhockey]

Thank you!!

[@xVeraldi]

this is exactly the info I was looking for! thanks!

[@andymeraz3884]

Very reconcise about which hand to shoot with load the video.

[@49erspurdy]

Thank you so much I was so confused this read helped me because I am a beginner hockey player thank you!

[@gustavocabrall]

Thanks for the explanation. I'm originally from Brazil and we live in Vancouver now. My 6 years old son is into hockey and I have no idea about this stuff. 😂 ❤

[@mnikss03]

Right handed and shot right ever since I picked up a stick in PE. It just felt comfortable, used the ol’ stick handling with the TP roll on the bottom hand to strengthen the control hand. Then got Jagr mindset and taped hockey pucks to the blade to give it that weight. 😂

[@Diff3RentBreed]

I played as a kid and I'm getting back into the sport after 15 years. I was just in playitagain and learned for the first time that I'm supposed to be shooting a left stick. I never knew that was a thing and had to look it up to see if it was true. Now I don't know if I should go into retraining with a left stick or not. I'm not sure what would be best 😫

[@pajerhockey]

I would not worry, as the main point is that you should simply treat the top hand on the stick as the primary driver of the hockey stick. I actually shoot on my right side but I am right handed, there is no right or wrong answer. The big thing is to just keep practicing using your top hand as the primary driver of the hockey stick!

[@joegrande4848]

I got a right-handed stick it curves left. This is where I got confused you said the curve is on the weak side. Why would I get a left handed stick being right handed if the curve ends up curving right on a left handed stick? 🤔🤔🤔

[@guillaumeguiblin7321]

I started playing ice hockey and could do with full gears :)

[@pajerhockey]

Awesome!

[@sergiocasanas3014]

I’m having this debate with my wife about my 8 year old daughters handedness

[@glenhuysamer]

I started playing with a right stick because when I started playing hockey that is the only stick I could get my hands on, I literally had no choice.......😀

[@dckiddos4112]

This is all wrong. The hand closest to the bottom of the stick is the hand that controls the wrist-sensitive movements of shooting and passing. The hand holding the top of the stick is the guide hand, which in all sports is your non-dominant hand. In basketball, your dominant hand is the wrist action hand, and your off hand is the guide hand. I’m right handed and although I could play and have played left handed in games as a fun challenge, my wrist shot was just trash because my left hand is not coordinated enough. Although this issue of handedness in hockey is a completely mind boggling phenomenon, I don’t think this explanation in this video explains it.
I believe there are two reasons:
1) Left handed players are scouted more vigorously because most goalies are right handed and therefore a left handed shooter is open to the blocker side, similar to how left handed batters have an advantage in baseball.
2) Because of the history of left handed dominance in hockey, kids learn to play with whatever stick they can find, and generationally this got passed down inadvertently. My uncle for instance is right handed but plays left handed. This is because his father was a right handed goalie and all of his sticks had a left handed curve as goalies do, so my uncle played around with my grabdpa’s sticks as a kid and developed his hockey skills as a toddler before handedness was really established.