was there ever . . .[lefty MB w/slide to left]

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You mean able to live in water or on land? Not very practical. Depends on the dorm.

Seriously, it would really help a setter -- and I'm sure there have been a few.

[ooreo46]

I've never seen a lefty MB. But, I remember Nancy Metcalf doing the slide from her opposite position.

[jgrout]

ruffda said:

Sure. You'd want to run it in system, however, which would allow your OH to cross and hit a 2nd tempo from the middle. Basically, you're spreading the block -- the goal of the conventional slide.

So that brings us to your point, I believe: Would such a system be justified? Would whatever you gain with these in-system options make up for what you lose everywhere else? That answer would be "no" in my opinion.

Think of this, however: A right-handed setter setting a left-handed middle and left-hander hitting from the rightside. Basically, you flip your offense. Two decent left-handers. That's all you need.

And Pepcid.

As I recall, the Seattle Seahawks did flip their play book for Jim Zorn, their long-time lefty QB. I don't know how far they went with it... they certainly accommodated him rolling out to the left (but the Niners did that for Steve Young). If they'd put their tight end on the left and their stronger offensive linemen on the right, that'd be closer to a mirror-image 5-1. Horrors!

[AntennaMagnet]

Advantage of being ambidexterous ? Huge advantage, especially when the setter places the ball short. I don't have any basis to prove this, but I think left handers tend to be more ambidexterous than righties....proabably because the former are often taught by the latter.

[meowmeow182]

Didn't Long Beach St run it in 1993? she was a senior and a lefty and Joy McKenzie used to run the front slide with her...

[Alberta]

ruffda said:

It's because all of the volleyballs are right-handed balls. It's really not fair. I'd complain if I were left-handed, but I don't suffer from that disability, thank gawd.

I did see some left-handed volleyballs once.

Do you think being a lefty is a disability?

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I'm pretty sure it is a disability. I read somewhere it usually can be traced back to being dropped as a baby.

Somebody PM'd me that I was thinking of "amphibious." Frogs, they say, are amphibious. I'm pretty sure that is wrong. Amphibious means something can be interpreted more than one way. I guess that makes sense. Sometimes, people use "frogs" when referring to the French.

[Alberta]

ruffda said:

I'm pretty sure it is a disability. I read somewhere it usually can be traced back to being dropped as a baby.

Somebody PM'd me that I was thinking of "amphibious." Frogs, they say, are amphibious. I'm pretty sure that is wrong. Amphibious means something can be interpreted more than one way. I guess that makes sense. Sometimes, people use "frogs" when referring to the French.

I've heard left-handedness runs in families, like big noses and ears that stick out.
But then maybe it's a family trait to drop babies on their heads,too.

[Chance]

antennamagnet said:

Advantage of being ambidexterous ? Huge advantage, especially when the setter places the ball short. I don't have any basis to prove this, but I think left handers tend to be more ambidexterous than righties....proabably because the former are often taught by the latter.

Ths is generally considered true. Also a lot of objects are designed for righthanded use.



I work in the front office of a minor league baseball team. One of my absolute favorite practical jokes is one we like to pull on brand new gameday staff relates to left / right handedness. Sometimes, I will send a gullible looking new employee on an errand to go ask another front office member if "he knows where the new shipment of lefthanded bats are."

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alberta said:

I've heard left-handedness runs in families, like big noses and ears that stick out.

Big noses do run, no doubt about it.

And stop making fun of my family!

[Gorf]

alberta said:

ruffda said:

I'm pretty sure it is a disability. I read somewhere it usually can be traced back to being dropped as a baby.

Somebody PM'd me that I was thinking of "amphibious." Frogs, they say, are amphibious. I'm pretty sure that is wrong. Amphibious means something can be interpreted more than one way. I guess that makes sense. Sometimes, people use "frogs" when referring to the French.

I've heard left-handedness runs in families, like big noses and ears that stick out.
But then maybe it's a family trait to drop babies on their heads,too.

I'm the only left handed person in my family AFAIK.

That includes parents, siblings, a plethora of cousins, and more than a plethora of nephews and nieces and such.



Back to the thread query though...

Wasn't Ryan Connor (sp?) (or perhaps Katie Pollom) of IU a left handed middle that ran left handed slides when she was on the right side for service rotations?

[pogoball]

I remember coaching against a high school team that had a lefty middle. She was really the only player on the team who could terminate. Overall, they weren't a very talented team, but since the lefty slide was so odd, it was very effective. It didn't really matter that you knew it was coming, it was still hard to defend. Of course, this was high school.

I've had big lefties that we've tried to play in the middle, but it doesn't work for a balanced team running a fast offense. The timing of a lefty running a middle in front of the setter is just slow.

I once played with a guy who could hit with either hand. He had a pretty serious vertical and would go up in the middle, see the block, and then choose the hand that had the open lane to hit. You could set him on the net since he could choose which angle to hit. The expression on the faces of the opposing blockers was priceless: "where'd the ball go, I had that stuffed".

While I'm rambling, I've heard stories of teams with many lefties that ran their setter on the left side of the net setting to the *onhand* lefty middles.

[Alberta]

gorf said:

alberta said:

I've heard left-handedness runs in families, like big noses and ears that stick out.
But then maybe it's a family trait to drop babies on their heads,too.

I'm the only left handed person in my family AFAIK.

That includes parents, siblings, a plethora of cousins, and more than a plethora of nephews and nieces and such.



Back to the thread query though...

Wasn't Ryan Connor (sp?) (or perhaps Katie Pollom) of IU a left handed middle that ran left handed slides when she was on the right side for service rotations?

You were clearly dropped on your head as a baby, so that's why you're a lefty.

[Gorf]

Haven't you heard that left handed people are the only ones in their right minds?