It’s like calling football to that sport they play with their hands… doesn’t make a lot of sense 
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I think handball was already taken. 
edit:typo
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It might be a cultural thing. Just sayin’. I found it interesting and almost more intuitive to learn the way that Kirk Fletcher learned chords (of course knowing what I know now). It certainly gets you learning the fretboard and straight into some theory right out of the gate:
Food for thought.
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In my first day I learned open D - D7- G barree and A barree (not knowing it was an A chord for a very long time) … The other songs I learned also had more barre chords in them than open…my fellow guitar player taught me this…unfortunately because
I did force my wrist with it and that never worked out completely for the first 2 years…but that’s a completely different story…
Greetings
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Once again, I shoot from the hip and miss! 
I was thinking: this is how Justin teaches. It makes sense, and I presumed most other teachers do the same.
However:
I’m also guessing most people starting off guitar get shown some basic chords by a friend or copy what they saw someone else do. I remember a couple of friends in school during the early 80s starting up punk bands and learning to play on the hoof. Every one of them started off with power/barre chords. I think because you could just slide them up and down the neck and they sounded cool with a lot of distortion. When I came across them on Justin’s site, I was like: “So that’s what they were!”
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I presume that’s Olympic handball? In Ireland, handball is one of the GAA sports (like Gaelic football and Hurling). Essentially, it’s like outdoor squash without a racquet 
Happy St. Patrick’s Day, everybody 
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Actually, so was football 
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What I really want to know is why rugby is called rugby? Did it start off as a parlor game plywd on a carpet? 
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because there’s a town called Rugby ( I think )
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@MacOneill @LunaRocket Yep, according to Wikipedia: “Rugby football started at Rugby School in Rugby, Warwickshire, where the rules were first codified in 1845.”
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I used to play that every Saturday night when I was younger.
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You know what, cowboys are cool. So cowboy chords are cool.
A few cowboy chords and some chord decorations makes for great sounding music.
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It’s an injustice to cowboys, I wear cowboy hat and belt from time to time although I spent most of my time in a place were English was the language!!!
Joke:
Why does a cowboy have his name on his belt buckle
Answer: in case he forgets it. 
As a senior with a failing memory maybe I should have mine engraved on my buckle or being from the soutof England have on a luggage label tied to my lapel.
Barry
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Hurling? Hurling?
Isn’t that what you do after a pint or two too many down the pub?
How is that a sport? Distance? Volume?
Color??? 
Please tell me I’m wrong!!!
Tod
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You’re wrong 
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(I actually knew that… just don’t tell anyone! They’ll just think… “Stupid American “!!!)
Tod:shushing_face:
More commonly used on your side of the pond than ours 
I prefer antipodean chundering
Size of the diced carrots, obviously 
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Brian, the topic (which we’ve definitely strayed from here) is COWBOY CHORDS.
None of the cowboys I’ve known, I actually do know several cowboys & cowgirls, are the “dicing” type. They’re more the “rip off the greens, cut the carrot in half & chuck ‘em in the kettle” type… they chuck ‘em in!
Hmmmmm… 
possibly where the term Chuck Wagon comes from?
So, in a Hurling contest, the Cowboys 
would obviously win due to the size of their “chucked” chunks!!!
Tod