Any tips on Pin Point for lefties?
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I am left-handed and I am trying to learn PPP. As in drawing with my right hand, my left thumb is erratic in drawing the shapes for the pitches.
Any suggestions?
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Get in practice mode and put the time in. I used Meter forever and just switched last season. Now i can never go back because Pin-point is the best IMO. That's the only way.
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@ANF_GOLD99_PSN said in Any tips on Pin Point for lefties?:
Get in practice mode and put the time in. I used Meter forever and just switched last season. Now i can never go back because Pin-point is the best IMO. That's the only way.
I'll spend more time on it but being old, sometimes my hands shake, so being a lefty and dealing with the shakes is making it very challenging.
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i understand, after 30 years of drafting/gaming, my hands aren't quite the same either. I'm in my 40's now and i have to stretch and warm up the muscles to get the blood flowing.
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The solution would be for SDS to have a setting where you can aim with the right analog and pitch with the left. I’m in the same boat as you. I’m a lefty. And I’m old. I’ve tried pinpoint. It isn’t as easy as “put the work in.” As lefties, our brains are simply wired differently.
The flip side of that coin, of course, is if they also allow users to switch PCI control to the right analog and mash the swing buttons with the left, if people so choose.
I have no dexterity with my right thumb. I tried and tried to get pinpoint down. It isn’t going to happen unless I torture myself. I believe pinpoint to be the best way to pitch, but I can’t pay the cost.
(A side note: there is a book called “The Half Has Never Been Told” and the historian points out that enslaved people picked more and more cotton per day, per picker, throughout the first half of the 1800s, because the lash forced them to be ambidextrous when picking. He argues some people train themselves to be ambidextrous for other reasons; such as a magician or a piano player. But they do that out of pleasure and self-fulfillment. To be forced to do so in order to bend to someone else’s will was absolute torture. Which is why formerly enslaved people said they would rather do any other job than pick cotton, even if the other work required more physical output, such as chopping down trees and carrying rails. Anyway, sorry for the history lesson. But this conundrum we are in made me think of that. By no means am I comparing our lack of video game skills to enslavement. I am merely saying right handed and left handed people’s brains are wired differently).
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@maurice91932_PSN Thank you for this. I spent another hour on it the other day and as you said, it just isn’t worth it. I agree it’s the most accurate way to pitch, but for me, I am inclined to think that it just isn’t for me. I’ll keep working on it, but I have no faith that I will adopt it.
As another side note to being a leftie and/or ambidextrous. When I was a mere lad, I was forced to learn how to do things with my right hand, eat, write, draw, etc. Lefties were the bane of society, it seemed. Thankfully, after a few years, they gave up and let me be me. As it turns out, I don’t write like a leftie with my left hand, which freaks some people out. I will do some things with my right hand, but nothing that takes coordination. Especially now that the shakes are really setting in.
