Xu Xin righthanded?

[TTjhonel04]

I am a Left handed but I play right hand... But I think I'm already close to reaching my full potential.... whats the difference if you were trained with your opposite hand rather than your normal/natural hand?

 

[agold]

whats the difference if you were trained with your opposite hand rather than your normal/natural hand?

I think if one hand is stronger than the other, it has an advantage if you play with it. But of course it is very small, and many players lift weights with only the hand they play with which would balance it out and is very helpful.

 

[asherd]

now why would he be a righty and play left handed?if a person was right handed and trained to play left handed,he will never be/reach his full potential.the natural ability combined with good training will always be better than the forced ability with training.

Rafael Nadal is right handed and plays with his left hand

 

[tack_and_grip]

Not sure about XX, but Zhou Yu is righthanded.

 

[tack_and_grip]

Not sure about XX, but Zhou Yu is righthanded.

He said he is righthanded, but he discovered one day when he was young that he could bounce the ball so much better with his left hand. That's how he started to play with his left hand.

 

[tack_and_grip]

He said he is righthanded, but he discovered one day when he was young that he could bounce the ball so much better with his left hand. That's how he started to play with his left hand.

Source:

(at 5m20s)

PS: Apologies for multiple posts. I can't include links before I have at least 5 posts.

 

[Hamza Al Halabi]

now why would he be a righty and play left handed?if a person was right handed and trained to play left handed,he will never be/reach his full potential.the natural ability combined with good training will always be better than the forced ability with training.

this is totally incorrect as many people whom i know use their right hand in everything, yet while playing table tennis they use their left hand, it is actually possible and makes sense.plus, me too i am a right handed who uses left while playing and i am succeeding and getting better everyday. so reaching the full potential is possible.

 

[wappak]

whoever teach xu xin to play with his left hand is a genius, he never thought xu xin would be one the greatest player someday

 

[Simas]

whoever teach xu xin to play with his left hand is a genius, he never thought xu xin would be one the greatest player someday

maybe that was a secret masterplan by an evil coach genius?

this is totally incorrect as many people whom i know use their right hand in everything, yet while playing table tennis they use their left hand, it is actually possible and makes sense.plus, me too i am a right handed who uses left while playing and i am succeeding and getting better everyday. so reaching the full potential is possible.

That's an interesting topic.
Yes, playing left hand gives you an advantage, so it makes sense. But how did you manage to do that? Cause I think it's a lot harder to start learning to play with the "other" hand? Did you do that intentionally? How old were you when you started training?

p.s. that's an ancient topic by the way

 

[balazs1234]

Never knew about this, thanks for sharing!

 

[An0n]

It's not that uncommon I think. I know some darts players that use their non-dominant hand to play.

 

[BeGo]

Cross handedness is much common than You might think, and often they are taught by society.

In muslim country, we are taught to eat with right hand and clean ourselves with left hand.

 

[jedimasterplk]

Jun Mizutani is right handed.

 

[fais]

Yes, XU Xin is right handed. But during his early period, when still was 7-9 years old, his coach found that his left hand is much more stronger and better than his right hand for TT. So he decided to train Xu Xin left hand instead.

In fact, there are many left handed people, who is better to use their right hand on certain stuff.

Funny, I've heard the same thing about Jun Mizutani. I wonder if its true for both, for one, or just one of those stories that spreads.

 

[PenHoldSandro]

now why would he be a righty and play left handed?if a person was right handed and trained to play left handed,he will never be/reach his full potential.the natural ability combined with good training will always be better than the forced ability with training.

It's called being mixed-handed. I write with my right, play with my left. Left handed TT came natural to me, like how right hand came naturally for writing

 

[Oliverpool]

It's called being mixed-handed. I write with my right, play with my left. Left handed TT came natural to me, like how right hand came naturally for writing

I knew that I should be better than I am now. I have been using my weaker hand to play 😜

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

just while I have the fake left hander topic going

and yes, XX is right handed
just like LYJ
haha

 

[driversbeat]

Fukuhara mentioned that she was taught to do everything with her left hand outside of table tennis to minimize use/injury. She only broke the habit after she had to use her right hand to break a fall, I think while she was pregnant, don't remember the specifics. But wouldn't surprise me if this was common practice in the TT world as overuse injuries are so common.

 

[Dr Evil]

Interesting topic. No question left handedness is an advantage in racket sports, baseball, boxing, etc., and much of the advantage comes from the simple fact that there are fewer lefties, so everyone is more used to playing against righties. There may also be neurological advantages; lefties tend to have more symmetrical brains which might be associated with more efficient processing between the hemispheres, better non-dominant hand coordination, and faster reaction times. The effects of eye dominance and cross dominance (e.g., right handed but left eye dominant) are less clear except in shooting sports where cross dominance is probably a disadvantage because it's harder to line up your dominant eye and shooting hand. It used to be thought that cross dominant baseball hitters had an advantage because their dominant eye is closer to the pitcher, but studies (such as this one) have debunked this theory.