south paw

This week has brought me to one of many "AHA" moments in my training.I don't know if it's like this in every martial arts school, but in our school we all train right handed. Thats right, if your left handed you have to switch to the right. I know a good number of Lefties in our school who make this change smoothly without most people ever knowing the difference. Not me, this causes me a great deal of trouble, and confusion. Anyway this wasn't suppose to be a wining party, I do have a point to make. During a class a couple of weeks ago while we were learning Master McNeil's cane form Master Brinker issued a challenge to the class to learn the form with our left hands too. To be honest with you this is something I really avoid because I worry I will have trouble switching it in my head.I had a bad class the next week due to lack of practice on my part so I felt I needed to push harder to try and make up for it. The next evening I took the plunge and switched to my favorite hand and gave it a go."Oh my god it felt so wonderful not to feel overly clumsy. I mean it was a long way from good but oh what a feeling.... this has to be a good excuse for a lot of the things I do not do so well. Lots of times I look around me and think "natural talent" thats why they all catch on so quick. Now I feel like I can give myself a break and take a little extra time to figure things out. It may never be perfect but I have accomplished something by just doing it with the wrong hand.
I would love to know how the rest of the class made out switching hands. If you had no trouble then be kind to my ego and pretend you did.....
Linda