Is Jett ambidextrous?

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mx691 wrote:

Which pedal do (all of you) have forward when coasting down a fast slope on a mtb, or jumping on a BMX?

Left foot forward riding bikes, left hand batsmen (Cricket, baseball etc), right hand writing, fork in right hand when eating. 

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yeah with all of the tiktok dances, necklaces, fashion gala stuff..... I wouldnt be surprised if he is ambidextual.

Swing and a miss

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mx691 wrote:

Which pedal do (all of you) have forward when coasting down a fast slope on a mtb, or jumping on a BMX?

This is throwing me for a loop. I grew up in the country but wanted to skate when i was a kid, so I practiced ollies on a small concrete pad regular, but when I actually got to an open space, riding goofy felt more comfortable, so I ended up being able to nollie before I could ollie moving. My left foot is forward on a MTB.

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Amby? Are you sure?

Abby . . . someone.

Abby someone . . . Abby who?

Abby . . . normal.

ABBBYYY...NORMAL....

 

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FWYT wrote:

Amby? Are you sure?

Abby . . . someone.

Abby someone . . . Abby who?

Abby . . . normal.

ABBBYYY...NORMAL....

 

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9/2/2025 5:36am

I’d give my right arm to be ambidextrous. 

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I shoot a rifle left handed because I'm left eye dominant, I shot competitively for years and even those people who saw people shooting every weekend didn't see that often. Funny enough my dad is the exact same way.   

For competition stuff especially with an AR, having my dominant hand steering the gun up front actually seemed preferable. 

9/2/2025 11:55am Edited Date/Time 9/2/2025 12:05pm
It is. If someone was truly ambidextrous they would not say, I write with my right hand, but throw a ball with my left. If someone...

It is. If someone was truly ambidextrous they would not say, I write with my right hand, but throw a ball with my left. If someone was truly ambidextrous they would say, I write with my left hand and my right, I throw a ball with my left hand and right. They would constantly switch tasks with boys hands. 

Some people are much better than others with using both hands, or have a dominant hand for some tasks, and a different dominant hand for other tasks, but again, there is no one that is truly ambidextrous 

If you really want to get pedantic about it, the latin word "ambidexter" originates from describing someone as "crafty or double-dealing." It's literal translation is "both right-handed." It was not originally intended to describe a physically superior human being with a unique ability to perform all fine and gross motor skills equally well with both sides of the body. This mythical creature, in your defense, does not exist, not has it ever existed in the history of human-kind. That is because the word was never intended to describe such a creature. 

Dexter = right-handed, skillful, favorable (the opposite of sinister, which literally meant left-handed but also “evil” or “unlucky”)

The words original context was used to describe a person's character. Modern-day use of the word has since been adapted to describe people who excel at using both sides of their body in a domain-specific context (e.g. "he's good with both hands")

 

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I'm left-handed, and I do many things strictly left-handed. Grew up playing baseball hitting and throwing lefty, and I look like an arse if I do either of these right-handed. I also could only slide left leg first w the right leg tucked.. whenever I tried to slide right leg first, there was some kind of mental block and I could never figure out why. 

Write with my left hand, play pool lefty, kick with my left foot, golf lefty - most things lefty.

I have played guitar since age 8, and I've always played right-handed. I don't think my parents knew that left-handed guitars existed at the time, so they just got me a standard guitar. I find the configuration of the guitar odd - for the most part, most of the very difficult, fine motor skills associated with guitar playing take place on the fretting hand, which on a right-handed guitar, is done by the left hand. So, I always felt at home playing guitar right-handed as a lefty. Although, I guess that does explain why I've always had an easier time than most with quick chord changes, but have had to work hard at fingerstyle (picking with individual fingers on the picking/strumming hand rather than picking/strumming with a pick).

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Here is one for discussion that I have seen before: are you left/right handed and what side do you push your bike on? Throttle side or clutch side? 

 

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Playing my drum kit.....  4 limbs doing 4 completely different things, all at the same time.  I have a knock for it from God, but it still took a bit to teach my left side how to do whatever my right side was doing.  It can be learned by anyone......  If you can walk forward, and count to four, anyone can play a drum kit.  How good you become is up to you.....

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Meanwhile, me on a motocross track...

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9/2/2025 3:03pm
SoCalMX70 wrote:
Meanwhile, me on a motocross track...

Meanwhile, me on a motocross track...

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So much easier turning left than it is turning right 😆

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9/2/2025 3:04pm
Here is one for discussion that I have seen before: are you left/right handed and what side do you push your bike on? Throttle side or...

Here is one for discussion that I have seen before: are you left/right handed and what side do you push your bike on? Throttle side or clutch side? 

 

Righty push from the left. Pushing from the right feels so wrong....

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Here is one for discussion that I have seen before: are you left/right handed and what side do you push your bike on? Throttle side or...

Here is one for discussion that I have seen before: are you left/right handed and what side do you push your bike on? Throttle side or clutch side? 

 

mattyhamz2 wrote:

Righty push from the left. Pushing from the right feels so wrong....

I’m the exact opposite haha

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9/2/2025 7:02pm

Who cares.

Can someone film him trying to spell it though? 

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myself has always been confused on this.. Im more accurate with left, stronger with my right? 
 

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Bearuno wrote:
toroP : "My rifle left, pistol right, is just stupid. No idea how this happened."Same here - the instructors at the 2 ranges I go...

toroP : "My rifle left, pistol right, is just stupid. No idea how this happened."

Same here - the instructors at the 2 ranges I go to, are baffled by my doing that.

Archery - can do either orientation - ambidextrous with that, as  the general standard of Eye Dominance, just doesn't seem to apply to me - my eyes are equally 'weird'. Basically, it comes down to whatever Shoulder  / Hand is the most trashed at the time, and, what bow - when it comes to 'fanciness' - that  is available.

And, with Musical instruments, I'm a weird mix. LH for some types of instrument, RH for others.  Though, I rarely pick up any instruments now - I've lost all interest / motivation, it seems 

Goofy foot Surfer / Skateboarder.

But, predominantly, RH oriented in every day things.

One thing I wish I had tried to train myself to do better when I was young, is TIG  evenly / equally with either 'handedness'. When getting into the Tubular car chassis I'm welding at the moment, it would make things so much easier. We are re-doing a diff set up, to a transaxle set up on a chassis we are building now, and it's just a bloody nightmare getting into that area. I can go LH for the torch, from my preferred RH, but it's not at all comfortable.

Fascinating. You are both freaks! I’m so terrible at most conventional sports that it doesn’t matter which hand I use lol 

I was going to ask Toro about eye dominance and archery, so you don’t have a dominant eye? 

Bringing it back to the theme, what class do you guys race or what was the highest level you once raced?

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9/2/2025 9:53pm
Bearuno wrote:
toroP : "My rifle left, pistol right, is just stupid. No idea how this happened."Same here - the instructors at the 2 ranges I go...

toroP : "My rifle left, pistol right, is just stupid. No idea how this happened."

Same here - the instructors at the 2 ranges I go to, are baffled by my doing that.

Archery - can do either orientation - ambidextrous with that, as  the general standard of Eye Dominance, just doesn't seem to apply to me - my eyes are equally 'weird'. Basically, it comes down to whatever Shoulder  / Hand is the most trashed at the time, and, what bow - when it comes to 'fanciness' - that  is available.

And, with Musical instruments, I'm a weird mix. LH for some types of instrument, RH for others.  Though, I rarely pick up any instruments now - I've lost all interest / motivation, it seems 

Goofy foot Surfer / Skateboarder.

But, predominantly, RH oriented in every day things.

One thing I wish I had tried to train myself to do better when I was young, is TIG  evenly / equally with either 'handedness'. When getting into the Tubular car chassis I'm welding at the moment, it would make things so much easier. We are re-doing a diff set up, to a transaxle set up on a chassis we are building now, and it's just a bloody nightmare getting into that area. I can go LH for the torch, from my preferred RH, but it's not at all comfortable.

soggy wrote:
The shooting thing is interesting because I always thought with shooting your dominant eye was important?  I don’t shoot often so my knowledge is admittedly not...

The shooting thing is interesting because I always thought with shooting your dominant eye was important?  I don’t shoot often so my knowledge is admittedly not strong that just what I thought. 

I  shoot a rifle LH because I'm left eye dominant, I could probably try to adjust but like this natural now, everything else is right handed

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jemcee wrote:

Yeah it is but in those sports your backfoot is the 'important' one

I'm laughing at the 5 downvotes on this haha

Like why come? haha I honestly don't care I just have questions is all.. Do they disagree with me about the backfoot? Do they not consider regular 'right' and Goofy 'left'?

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Here is one for discussion that I have seen before: are you left/right handed and what side do you push your bike on? Throttle side or...

Here is one for discussion that I have seen before: are you left/right handed and what side do you push your bike on? Throttle side or clutch side? 

 

Right handed.

Push bike: me on the left side (opposite impossible!)

Bicycling - coasting/jumping: left pedal forward

Skate/snowboard: Goofy (right foot forward)

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9/3/2025 1:22am Edited Date/Time 9/3/2025 1:24am

Semi-related sidenote:

BMX legend Maris Strombergs had a big crash back in time, rumors said the reason was he got ”unsyncronized" with pedals before the jump...

First straight i think he jump/coasts/manual with left pedal fwd, at the jump/takeoff/crash right pedal is fwd..?

For sure it would have me loosing control…

 

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toroP wrote:
I write, eat (except knife), shoot a rifle, shoot pool, computer mouse,   left handedAll ball sports,(batting, tennis, and golf included), shave, shoot a pistol, play...

I write, eat (except knife), shoot a rifle, shoot pool, computer mouse,   left handed

All ball sports,(batting, tennis, and golf included), shave, shoot a pistol, play guitar,   right handed

Frisbee, either hand, slight right dominance

jemcee wrote:

That's pretty weird haha 

I'm right handed/footed with writing, throwing, kicking

but goofyfoot surfing, skating, snowboarding  

toroP wrote:
I’ve never learned board sports, but I think I’d want right foot back, like golf/batting.My rifle left, pistol right, is just stupid. No idea how this...

I’ve never learned board sports, but I think I’d want right foot back, like golf/batting.

My rifle left, pistol right, is just stupid. No idea how this happened.

I'm the same way but it's because I'm left eye dominant. With pistol it doesn't matter which hand I shoot with because I can still use dominant eye so I have always just used my dominant hand. Doesn't work with long guns so I shoot them lefty. 

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9/3/2025 11:34am
Here is one for discussion that I have seen before: are you left/right handed and what side do you push your bike on? Throttle side or...

Here is one for discussion that I have seen before: are you left/right handed and what side do you push your bike on? Throttle side or clutch side? 

 

I think if you have a street bike background you’re probably getting off on the left (kickstand side) and pushing on the left. At the dealerships I worked at some of us pushed bikes back in the building backwards leaned over opposite kickstand side. 

9/3/2025 11:55am Edited Date/Time 9/3/2025 12:06pm

Red Bull can says Jett is right hand dominant

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9/3/2025 12:23pm
Bearuno wrote:
toroP : "My rifle left, pistol right, is just stupid. No idea how this happened."Same here - the instructors at the 2 ranges I go...

toroP : "My rifle left, pistol right, is just stupid. No idea how this happened."

Same here - the instructors at the 2 ranges I go to, are baffled by my doing that.

Archery - can do either orientation - ambidextrous with that, as  the general standard of Eye Dominance, just doesn't seem to apply to me - my eyes are equally 'weird'. Basically, it comes down to whatever Shoulder  / Hand is the most trashed at the time, and, what bow - when it comes to 'fanciness' - that  is available.

And, with Musical instruments, I'm a weird mix. LH for some types of instrument, RH for others.  Though, I rarely pick up any instruments now - I've lost all interest / motivation, it seems 

Goofy foot Surfer / Skateboarder.

But, predominantly, RH oriented in every day things.

One thing I wish I had tried to train myself to do better when I was young, is TIG  evenly / equally with either 'handedness'. When getting into the Tubular car chassis I'm welding at the moment, it would make things so much easier. We are re-doing a diff set up, to a transaxle set up on a chassis we are building now, and it's just a bloody nightmare getting into that area. I can go LH for the torch, from my preferred RH, but it's not at all comfortable.

soggy wrote:
The shooting thing is interesting because I always thought with shooting your dominant eye was important?  I don’t shoot often so my knowledge is admittedly not...

The shooting thing is interesting because I always thought with shooting your dominant eye was important?  I don’t shoot often so my knowledge is admittedly not strong that just what I thought. 

FGR01 wrote:
Yes, exactly.  In any discussion of what hand you shoot, rifle or pistol,. you have to include eye dominance.    Crossing over on a pistol is...

Yes, exactly.  In any discussion of what hand you shoot, rifle or pistol,. you have to include eye dominance.    Crossing over on a pistol is not such a huge deal, but it is awkward on a rifle since it messes up your head position and cheek weld and then there's grip shapes, function buttons and ejection ports, etc.  In military basic training rifle instruction, one of the first things they do is test your eye dominance and "strongly encourage" you to shoot with the hand that matches your eye dominance.

Yes this is on the mark when it comes to rifles, im RH everything accept from using a rifle but it is 100 percent down to my eye dominance, as uncomfortable as I found it at 1st I am just a lot more accurate using the rifle that way. Even down to the feeling of my face against the stock it just works better 

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9/3/2025 12:49pm

I bet Jetts so talented he can even pick up this chair. 😄

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mx691 wrote:
Semi-related sidenote:BMX legend Maris Strombergs had a big crash back in time, rumors said the reason was he got ”unsyncronized" with pedals before the jump...First straight...

Semi-related sidenote:

BMX legend Maris Strombergs had a big crash back in time, rumors said the reason was he got ”unsyncronized" with pedals before the jump...

First straight i think he jump/coasts/manual with left pedal fwd, at the jump/takeoff/crash right pedal is fwd..?

For sure it would have me loosing control…

 

I didn't need to see that... uffda!!

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