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<blockquote data-quote="nickdnz" data-source="post: 575429" data-attributes="member: 38640"><p>Unfortunately I don't think there is any correlation between handedness and side of the scrum. I'm right handed and scrum on the left. I'd wager a guess the BG8 is the same and go further to guess most LH props are right handed.</p><p></p><p>I think - and I'm not meaning to be rude as it applies to most people on the thread - that you'll never really know what being a prop is about or like unless you experience it yourself, and I mean at a reasonably competitive level like 1st XV as a starter, not a few games as a kid. Its really hard to explain what is involved and what you have to consider unless you do it for a couple of years in my honest opinion. I started off as a flanker and then as a lock before I became a TH prop at 15 for the my teams colts side, then I propped for my 1st XV and then back to my colts side at LH with occasional games for my clubs 2nds and 1sts - and the one thing I've realized after 6 years is that the only advice ever worth taking on board to improve your scrummaging, is when it comes from another front rower.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I can agree with a lot of this - interestingly Wellington has just signed back John Schwalger, who is a very mobile LH but not the strongest scrummager. Overall however I don't tend to think that TH = strongest scrummager and LH = weaker scrummager - the adjustment is more to do with technique than power in my opinion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nickdnz, post: 575429, member: 38640"] Unfortunately I don't think there is any correlation between handedness and side of the scrum. I'm right handed and scrum on the left. I'd wager a guess the BG8 is the same and go further to guess most LH props are right handed. I think - and I'm not meaning to be rude as it applies to most people on the thread - that you'll never really know what being a prop is about or like unless you experience it yourself, and I mean at a reasonably competitive level like 1st XV as a starter, not a few games as a kid. Its really hard to explain what is involved and what you have to consider unless you do it for a couple of years in my honest opinion. I started off as a flanker and then as a lock before I became a TH prop at 15 for the my teams colts side, then I propped for my 1st XV and then back to my colts side at LH with occasional games for my clubs 2nds and 1sts - and the one thing I've realized after 6 years is that the only advice ever worth taking on board to improve your scrummaging, is when it comes from another front rower. I can agree with a lot of this - interestingly Wellington has just signed back John Schwalger, who is a very mobile LH but not the strongest scrummager. Overall however I don't tend to think that TH = strongest scrummager and LH = weaker scrummager - the adjustment is more to do with technique than power in my opinion. [/QUOTE]
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