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International Left Handers Day 2015

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Lefties represent!

I feel like I'm even more of an outlier than a normal lefty. I throw, write and swing with my left but am right footed and right eye dominant. I do most everyday things like eat and brush my teeth right handed. And I have a decent right handed tennis forehand. But at least I'm not one of those weirdo lefties who wastes his advantage in baseball by batting right handed.
 
Spartanforlife4 said:
Lefties represent!

I feel like I'm even more of an outlier than a normal lefty. I throw, write and swing with my left but am right footed and right eye dominant. I do most everyday things like eat and brush my teeth right handed. And I have a decent right handed tennis forehand. But at least I'm not one of those weirdo lefties who wastes his advantage in baseball by batting right handed.
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Hockey, golf, baseball swing all left handed. Otherwise I'm right-dominant. Go figure.

I probably should have learned to write lefty, but it didn't feel natural. I chicken scratch to hell righty though.
 
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hockeyplayer1015 said:
Hockey, golf, baseball swing all left handed. Otherwise I'm right-dominant. Go figure.

I probably should have learned to write lefty, but it didn't feel natural. I chicken scratch to hell righty though.
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left hand hockey sticks are for right hand dominant players.
 
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I eat and write left-handed. Sports are all right handed. My dad was the opposite and played all sports left handed. I don't think there are any other lefties anywhere in my family.

Brenthoven said:
Left dominated, but ambidextrous overall.
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You are only ambidextrous if you do everything with both sides EQUALLY well. So if you're "left dominated"... then you're not ambidextrous.
 
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jen said:
I eat and write left-handed. Sports are all right handed. My dad was the opposite and played all sports left handed. I don't think there are any other lefties anywhere in my family.



You are only ambidextrous if you do everything with both sides EQUALLY well. So if you're "left dominated"... then you're not ambidextrous.
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I can't do EVERYTHING equally well. Sports, I'm right handed, although hockey was a weird one: shot right-handed, but also caught right-handed as goalie (cannot catch right-handed in baseball/softball).

Can sorta write with my right hand. Do everything else pretty much equally.
 
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Is there something a bit, um, "sinister" about this thread?

Oops, I'm sorry, did I say something gauche?
 
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hockeyplayer1015 said:
Well, yes. But there are far too many right hand hockey players compared to left-dominant people. ;)
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Yes, yes there is. It's because we're taught wrong when kids and it just sticks as we progress through the ranks. People hear that the kid is a right handed, so they give the kid a right handed stick, exactly what happened to me. The same thing happened to my next door neighbor, though he was a lefty and given a lefty stick. Kids should be given flat bladed sticks and told to try playing both ways for the first year, see which feels more natural to them. Unfortunately, it's becoming tougher and tougher to find flat bladed sticks for kids to use while learning.
 
St. Clown said:
Yes, yes there is. It's because we're taught wrong when kids and it just sticks as we progress through the ranks. People hear that the kid is a right handed, so they give the kid a right handed stick, exactly what happened to me. The same thing happened to my next door neighbor, though he was a lefty and given a lefty stick. Kids should be given flat bladed sticks and told to try playing both ways for the first year, see which feels more natural to them. Unfortunately, it's becoming tougher and tougher to find flat bladed sticks for kids to use while learning.
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Amen to all the above. My old man essentially did exactly that with me. He was a natural lefty for virtually everything.
 
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