Thread: Ambidextrous Shaving

Originally Posted by scap99

I don't feel comfortable trying to shave with my right hand (I'm left handed).
I feel like I can't see what in doing in the mirror.

You know, I thought about making the comment about right handed vs. left just to see how many lefties called me out on it

Originally Posted by Shaotzu

You know, I thought about making the comment about right handed vs. left just to see how many lefties called me out on it

Oddly, I shoot pistols, rifles, and shotguns right handed. I swing bats and clubs right handed. I practiced marital arts and spar right handed.

I couldn't throw a ball right handed or hold a pencil in my right hand to save my own life.... lol

I do wear my watch in my right hand and am left footed in martial arts. You don't want to see me try to write with my left hand though...

Originally Posted by Shaotzu

I do wear my watch in my right hand and am left footed in martial arts. You don't want to see me try to write with my left hand though...

As you have probably guessed i am a lefty, but i eat right handed and wear my watch on the left.

Originally Posted by scap99

Oddly, I shoot pistols, rifles, and shotguns right handed. I swing bats and clubs right handed. I practiced marital arts and spar right handed.

I couldn't throw a ball right handed or hold a pencil in my right hand to save my own life.... lol

All that right handed stuff is because we live in a right handed world, the real you is the stuff you do solo - you are a lefty

Originally Posted by edhewitt

All that right handed stuff is because we live in a right handed world, the real you is the stuff you do solo - you are a lefty

Absolutely.

Originally Posted by scap99

Oddly, I shoot pistols, rifles, and shotguns right handed. I swing bats and clubs right handed. I practiced marital arts and spar right handed.

I couldn't throw a ball right handed or hold a pencil in my right hand to save my own life.... lol

Shave with both hands and like scap99 and Birnando I'm "somewhat" ambidextrous..
Shoot, bat, bowl right handed.
Cast a fishing rod and play racket sports and write left handed.
Some of it (the shooting for instance) may come from having a right dominant eye. When I have to switch to "weak side" in a match I have no advantage...

I wear glasses, but take them off to shave. When I use one of those "shaving" mirrors with magnification I have to close one eye when I'm trying to start the WTG pass at my sideburn.

Shaving with a Straight using only one hand would be very hard for me.

I use my non dominant hand for a few awkward places, but dominant for the rest of my shave. I used to fish at night a lot and used to shave in complete darkness sometimes easy with a de but a little trickier with a straight.

There's some very good reasons to divide the tasks that you need to do between your right and left hands.[emoji40]

Another left hand semi ambidextrous here. Up until about 2 months ago it was about 50/50, but I watched chimensch 30th anniversary shave (look it up on YouTube) again, and noticed 2 things I didn't the previous times I saw that clip: a. A hold for a cross body pass that clicked, allowing me easier wtg pass on the right side with my left hand (usually wtg was same side hand and atg cross hand), and b. After 30 years the guy doesn't think about which hand does what. He just shaved, switching hands whenever it was more comfortable for him. So now I do what's comfortable for me, which lately translates to about 65/35 left hand. Might change again later on, but hey, as long as I'm shaved and comfortable, it's fine.