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This seems like a topic that doesn't really get talked about. Right hand dominant or left hand dominant is the norm. 1 % of people are ambidextrous. Makes you think. I'm very curious as to our legends would test as far as right and left dominant. I'd be with to bet the majority of our best were pretty close, if not ambidextrous.
Do you mean amphibious?
Fun fact, no one is truly ambidextrous, everyone has a dominant hand that they are better with
I'm able to tug me ol zub with both hands...does that count?
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
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I’m similar but I don’t think is necessarily ambidextrous. Ambidextrous in my eyes is being as good at the same activity with either hand. Not using one hand for one thing and the other for another. I throw lefty but shot a basketball righty growing up. Just taught myself how to shoot left handed in the last couple years. Hockey right handed, frisbee right handed (some left depending on the throw. )
But I don’t have a dominant hand. Zook said everyone has a dominant hand. Not true
That's pretty weird haha
I'm right handed/footed with writing, throwing, kicking
but goofyfoot surfing, skating, snowboarding
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 will rephrase
No one can use both hands equally, which is what ambidextrous means
I think some people have better 'transfer of coordination' from their right to left hand and vice versa, but I think you're right that true ambidexterity doesn't really exist.
I'm quite good with both hands at most things (TIG welding for example at my work, I can weld better lefty than most people, including other qualified tradesmen I've worked with can do right handed)
Along with sports - always been good left handed at cricket / golf / table tennis / others but couldn't throw correctly left handed until recently. Injured my right elbow playing tennis which didn't get better for ages and taught myself to play left handed and play in competition (albeit at a much lower level than right handed, played tennis since I was a kid). Learning to play tennis lefty required me to learn how to throw a ball with decent power left handed first (tennis serve is essentially like throwing a ball upwards, if you don't have that coordination pattern you can't serve).
I'm definitely right hand dominant though. Whether that's just preference from learning everything right handed first, I'm not sure - my tennis coach told me my serve technique is far better left handed than I've ever looked right handed.
My dad is extremely good at transferring learned skills to each hand, he's definitely where I got the ability from, but he's still better at some things lefty, some things righty.
Some people just can't learn things with their opposite hands at all, just are not coordinated with their off hand. Whether through true inability, or impatience to try and build the coordination, I dunno.
Goofyfoot is right foot forward...
Yeah it is but in those sports your backfoot is the 'important' one
The quickest way to check is have someone push you from behind and whatever foot you put out to stop yourself falling over is usually the foot you'd have as your front foot haha
Left foot forward is regular, right is goofy
Edit: Also add batting to right handed for me as well
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.
I learned to TIG with both hands in TAFE (trade school in Australia).
Finished all the welds with 3 months left on the course I was doing, so re-did them all left handed.
Easy to maintain it, but I am a fabricator / welder who specialises in TIG, so I get a lot of practice.
I'm Australian - I know about TAFE.
Went through the same thing as you, but in the mid 70s.
I can do LH, but just wish it were as (completely) natural as RH is.
I Teach 'baby engineers' how to Do things now, with a few Companies OS - and at a couple of Unis here in OZ - to get them being able to actually make things / have a concept of what their people in production have to do. It's good for Desk and Screen Engineers, to actually have an idea of the 'physical' / be able to do more than press keyboards / move cursors on screens.
Ah yep, used to translating for the seppos 😁
My first boss was a German engineer - they do a couple of years of fabrication in their degree, he was great to work for (making copper whisky stills). Very practical, better than me on the lathe/mill, and knew a hell of a lot about a whole bunch of shit.
I'm left-handed for just about everything, but right-footed for everything I need to use my legs for.
I've pondered this a lot, and I think my mind just needs some kind of symmetrical balance. I don't know, but I'm certainly weird.
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I’ve done that test many times setting up snowboards. The foot you fall on is usuallly the dominant one so we’d put that in the back.
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.
Oh really? Well that's even more confusing cause I'd probably fall onto my right haha (I'm goofy if you didn't read above)
I mean I say probably cause I've been in a wheelchair for about 20 years haha but my reflex is telling me right
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.
Yea. I think that test works better for younger kids who haven’t fully developed there body control yet so theyll often revert back to instinct. Adults can be trickier to test on. For adults I usually would ask what foot they’d kick a soccer ball with. Or obviously ask if they’ve ever surfed/skate/wakeboard etc before.
I’ve always been taught to slide on the floor in socks. Whatever foot you have forward while sliding, is how you should set up a snowboard. Simple as that.
Yep another way to do it. Was hard to have people do that on the carpet in the ski shop
Being ambidextrous is not all or nothing.
I’m left-hand dominant but bat, golf, kick, throw (baseball pitch style, football and darts), bowl, and masturbate equally well with both arms and legs. I write right handed although left hand writing is pretty good. I sometime struggle to choose which dominant hand to use when bowling, golfing, batting and throwing darts.
I can’t shoot a basketball with my left hand to save my life but dunk and spike with my left hand and excel at every other ball sport with either dominant arm. Played D1 volleyball as a left-handed setter.
I bet Jett is highly coordinated regardless of his hand dominance. Probably a natural athlete.
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
Any firearms instructor still teaching trainees to close one eye for pistol shooting is way behind the times, bordering on negligent. Both eyes open (target focus) is the way.
Which pedal do (all of you) have forward when coasting down a fast slope on a mtb, or jumping on a BMX?
yeah with all of the tiktok dances, necklaces, fashion gala stuff..... I wouldnt be surprised if he is ambidextual.
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