I'd like to hear (and see in the poll) how many lefties we have here at SRP. Drop by and we'll all see if there are enough southpaws to stage a mass attack on those dern right-handers!
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I'd like to hear (and see in the poll) how many lefties we have here at SRP. Drop by and we'll all see if there are enough southpaws to stage a mass attack on those dern right-handers!
you do realize that all civilized people are left-handed... it is the barbarian horde that blasphemes and uses the right hand!
Left handed people are always in their right mind...
How about those that are ambidextrous? Comes in handy when shaving....
Shawn
even those who are ambidextrous still favor one hand over the other...Quote:
Originally Posted by shawn
I can start IV's give injections, and do a number of other difficult tasks with both hands equally well, but I will always favor my left.
I favor different hands depending upon the task and for some tasks don't really favor either hand. For example I write left handed, throw right handed, shoot pool either way, solder either way, shave either way, use utensils either way...etc..etc.
Shawn
I'm a freak:
Left-handed: write, use a fork, brush my teeth, shoot a rifle/shotgun
Right-handed: throw, swing a golf club/tennis racket/baseball bat, shoot a handgun, kick (right-footed)
Most importantly, I shave with both hands, and I don't prefer one over the other. I've been equally comfortable with both since day one.
Eagle, I do a lot of things with my right hand as well, but I find the predominant side of my body is the left. Also, most of the power and control from a kick comes from the plant foot, not the swinging foot. Just FWIW on that.
As to the question of ambidexterity, let's just go with your predominate hand. If you favor them both absolutely evenly, I don't know what to tell you :shrug:.
I think a lot of us lefties are ambidextrous to an extent. This way we can yield two weapons at once when in battle against those wingnut-righties:D But anyway, I am considered a lefty to satisfy your curiousity.
Even though I'm ambidexterous, I tend to favor my right hand for some of the finer tasks. (i.e. I can write with both hands, but writing with my right hand is a more fluid process with improved legibility over the left hand).
I am a righty, as are my wife and oldest daughter.
The youngest is stil not certain. sometimes she favors her left, sometimes her right.
I shave with both hands without a problem.
I'm a lefty alright.. i write crooked and all. Shaving has been interesting but noticed that i shave the cheeks better on the left side and under the cheek on the right side. {not hands, but face}
Right now I guess that I am left handed. But if I was not injured, I would be right handed and left foot.
I am left handed and my left eye is dominant.( for two eyes open shooting)
I write with the right hand but it is easy for me to write with the left.
I tend to favor my left hand for the finer tasks, except writting.
Lefthanded. I love it. I always had the advantage in fencing because most of my attakcs came from a side that people weren't used to parrying.
Haven't fenced in years though. Still don't mind being a lefty.
Also right eye dominant. I shoot with 2 eyes open and focused on the target.
I am right handed currently. When I was a small tot I was left handed but my grandmother told my mom it was the mark of the devil. Soooo every time I picked something up with my left mom smacked it, didn't take long for me to become a righty. My sister was also born lefty but mom didn't listen to granny by then so she is still lefty. Her hand writting is much neater than mine so just goes to show. My son is also a lefty.
I voted left-handed because I prefer to write as a lefty. I also throw a ball, shoot a bow, fire a rifle/shotgun, etc. as a lefty.
OTOH (no pun intended) I golf, bat, shoot a pistol, brush my teeth, use scissors, and a number of other things predominantly as a righty. I can also write right-handed, but don't often do it.
There are many things I do ambidextrously. Both hands work equally well for me when I use eating utensils, comb my hair, and use most hand/power tools (hammers, drills, saws, etc.). Shaving fits well here also, but stropping and honing are better as right-handed activities for me.
I thought ambidexterity was more uncommon than it appears in this thread, or maybe the thread title is just teasing it out of the woodwork. My mother claims to be ambidextrous, but I think she strongly favors her right hand.
Even though I do possess both a left and right hand, I am said to be right-handed since I favor my right hand in daily use. My left hand can do anything that my right hand can do though, and vice versa. Anyone who has two functional hands should be able to verify this with their own hands. To me, using a non-favored hand until it performs as well as the favored hand is similar to learning a different language. It's a matter of assimilating the concepts of an unfamiliar task into the procedural applications necessary to perform the task. The brain is a marvelous tool! :hmmm:
I think what's being said here is that many people are, at least to some degree, cross-dominant. I believe that's what I described for myself, although I termed it ambidextrous.
From wikipedia:Cross-dominance, also known as mixed-handedness, mixed dominance, or hand-confusion, is a motor skill manifestation where a person favors one hand for some tasks and the other hand for others. For example, a cross-dominant person might write with the left hand but grab primarily with the right. Ambidexterity is a well-known variant of cross-dominance, but cross-dominant people may also be left or right-handed rather than ambidextrous.It can also refer to mixed laterality, which refers to a person favoring eyes, ears, feet, or hands on one side of the body. A person who is Cross-dominant can also be stronger on the opposite side of the body that they favor; for example, a right-handed person can be stronger on the left side. Cross-dominance can often be a problem when shooting or in activities that require aim.In theory I'd agree, but in practice I haven't found it to be particularly true. A friend of mine has Dystonia which has affected her right hand for the past 4-years. Although she has tried valiantly, she still cannot write with her left hand.Quote:
Originally Posted by hoglahoo
You might find it to be an interesting experiment to, say, brush your teeth or wipe your butt (no grossness intended) with your "non-favored" hand and see how long it takes you to get as proficient as with your preferred hand. You may find that, like learning a foreign language, you will always have an "accent" ;). However, a truly ambidextrous person will achieve equal dexterity in a similar setting. YMMV
I'm the same wayQuote:
Originally Posted by LegalEagle
Left-handed: throw, eat, write, shoot a rifle, box
Right-handed: throw a frisbee, play tennis, bat, shoot handguns
Are we just mixed up or what?
I shave with both.:shrug:
Jordan
Hi
I'am 60 and naturaly left handed but the good "sisters" (the nuns) would wrap my left hand with rulers or pointer sticks whenever I tried to write with it. I remember when I started writing doing the bottom par of rows of "5" and putting the top line with my left hand, same with the "T".
Now I write with my right hand but can hardly re-read my self, it's that bad.
I can shoot handguns both hands but rifle left side. I could play hocket righty, baseball lefty, golf lefty. I paint lefty but I do the rake rifhty. People how don't know me thing I'm righty until I start to do minute thing. I right righty but I draw lefty, things like that
I must say that lefties are more creative people, more artistic, more sensitive...and for those reasons we will live 9 years less then righties.
BTW all polar bears are lefties.
Jacques
Laval, Quebec
ambidextrous here. was entirely right handed until I had a bad car wreck a few years ago and partially severed my right pointer and middle fingers. after having my right hand out of commission for an entire summer (a summer where i worked 40 hours a week and did school 12 hours a week) I found that I could do everything left handed without a problem.
I use both hands equally whilst shaving; I have no idea how you could shave with only one hand.
Damn lefty fencers! Just being left handed gives you oddjobs such an advantage:rant:Quote:
Originally Posted by LX_Emergency
I am most definitely right handed, though I find that I can be ambidextrous when I need to be.
Good point. I'll admit my left hand works with an accent, but it's a domestic accent rather than a foreign one. So though there is a difference in appearance and/or method, the results cannot be improved upon by the other hand! Maybe ambidexterity is learned best as a childQuote:
Originally Posted by Hooper
Oh so that explains the commando thing eh? All that smacking around.Quote:
Originally Posted by RichZ
Righty by birth, ambidextrous by training. I notice a significant difference in the way I see colors when I switch from writing right handed to writing left handed, so whenever I need to do something artistic or dealing with colors etc. I'll do some intricate task with my left hand for a while to shift brain activity a little to the right. Try it sometime, weird feeling at first.
Seriously?Quote:
Originally Posted by Russel Baldridge
Sinister and love it. The only thing I do right handed is Fence Japanese style.
Yep, colors are more intense, shapes become more prominent than they were previously and I notice positive and negative spaces more so than the actual objects that are creating those spaces. It's not a profound effect, just an observable difference.Quote:
Originally Posted by Quick Orange
But I am an extremely left brained person, so forcing myself to do something with the right side makes the transition a noticeable one, might not happen for everybody.
Very interesting- I might have to try it out and exercise my brain a little more.
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Originally Posted by thebigspendur
Dammm you figured it out...:roflmao:roflmao:roflmao