aubs1 wrote:
I have come across many left handers who do things with their right hand........guitar, shooting (a world champion), writng etc.......I have NEVER come across any right hander who would switch to being left handed!!!! ?
Bob Dubery wrote:
The world's most famous living left-handed guitarist IE Paul McCarteney is actually right-handed. He does everything right-handed except for playing guitar and bass. Even plays drums "North-paw" (well that's the opposite of "south-paw" isn't it?)
This may be more common than we think. There is a tradition in cricket of "right-handed left-handers" who bat left and bowl, field, write, play golf etc right. Brian Lara, Graeme Pollock, Graeme Smith, Gary Kirsten....
Well Pollock is a right hander who started batting left in games with brother Peter in the backyard. I one such game he announced that he was Neal Harvey. Brother Peter said "you'll have to bat left then ." (Harvey was a left-hander). And so Graeme started batting left. When he fielded in the slips for Transvaal he preferred to dive right and catch right, When, on occasion, he bowled it was right arn wrist spin rather than chinaman,
I think what may happen with some of these players is that they are inclined to be lefthanded but parents or schoolteachers try to make them favour their right hand, but that natural left-handedness will out in some activity or another. Paul said that he struggled with guitar until he tried playing lefty (with strings restrung for a left-handed) and it was then that things suddenly made sense.
Brian Lara told me that he is actually right handed but bats left because that meant fewer shots going in the air. With a conventional right-handed grip the stronger hand is on the bottom and can lead to the ball being hit in the air. Lara now has his strong band on top and weaker hand at the bottom.
Lara gives a reason for batting left, but he had to adopt that style early on and I wonder if his decision to do so was instinctual or caculated. "Instinctual" may suggest that he was born lefty but encouraged to write righty etc. He even plays golf right-handed.
There must be guitarists who, say, play left but sign signatures with the right hand. They might be naturally lefty but as kids were encouraged to be "dexter" rather than "sinister" I know two men who were born left-handed and had fathers who believed that "there is no place in the world for a left-handed man" and so forced their sons into orthodoxy. But the left-handedness can never be completely surpressed.
Interesting Bob, always believed Paul was lefty! My Idol, JH, was a lefty, did he swop his strings around??
His guitars and basses were all restrung for left-hand playing.
