The bloke who taught me to fly helicopters crashed a Gazelle on Andover airfield demonstrating the LHS right hand hold the collective gag - and he had thousands of hours. My advice is not to.
I think the real reason the cyclic is offset, is to give you a bad back. Or perhaps you have a bent left cyclic. Or perhaps to give your right leg more room as you can only move your left leg outwards.
My money is on the bad back, it works so well.