Anyone here ambidextrous?

[Nodrog]

and if so, have you always been like that since you were a child, or did you consciously choose to become ambidextrous? If the latter, how old were you (and what made you decide to do so?)

[Deffeh]

i didnt realise it was a choice at all.

[Nodrog]

As far as I know, some say its genetic and some say it isnt. Its a choice in the sense that you can choose to practice doing things (eg writing) with your weaker hand until it reaches a decent standard.

[Deffeh]

perhaps, but what standard makes you officially "ambidextrous" ? I mean, i play a bit of football, i'm entirely right footed. my left leg is pretty much for standing on. I can practice and practice with my left foot but i doubt ill ever have the strength, technique, and co ordination to feel as comfortable shooting with it as my right. Even if i could, wouldnt my right foot always be my default choice in split second decisions?

[Stew]

Maybe they should teach everyone how to do it at school when they learn to write, surely this could only lead to a productive workforce - especially manual work. Also, if people break their arm/wrist etc later in life they wont be badly affected.

[Nodrog]

Originally Posted by Deffeh

perhaps, but what standard makes you officially "ambidextrous" ? I mean, i play a bit of football, i'm entirely right footed. my left leg is pretty much for standing on. I can practice and practice with my left foot but i doubt ill ever have the strength, technique, and co ordination to feel as comfortable shooting with it as my right. Even if i could, wouldnt my right foot always be my default choice in split second decisions?

I dont know, thats kind of why I wanted to find someone who was ambidextrous and ask them. I've been trying to wriite with my left hand for the last month or so, its pretty hard.

[1-X]

I thought ambidexterity was specifically hand related

the timer has started for the first wanking joke

[Tactitus]

I seem to recall being ambidextrous. I remember starting to play baseball at age 5 or some such and having to pick which hand I was going to throw with and which hand was going to wear the glove. Since baseball gloves are either right- or left-handed you pretty much had to pick one and stick with it (and since left-handed gloves were a lot more common I decided to be a right-handed thrower and batter). Later in kindergarten the teacher made us pick which hand we were going to write with. She didn't care too much which one you picked but again, switching back and forth was discouraged (and if you didn't have a preference they told you to use your right hand).

In high school my right wrist was in a cast for a couple of weeks and I trained myself to write with my left hand. I was making good progress but gave it up when I got the use of my right hand back. Later in life I taught myself to bat left-handed. I think it's mostly practice.

[Dead_Meat]

Raise your preferred hand if you're ambidextrous...

[the_dastardley_chihuahua]

hmm, i think someone needs to make the joke about being able to write ****all with both hands...

[pablissimo]

Instead of asking the question, why dont you actively try and develop your weaker hand into something other than 'dangly appendage #2'

[Apothos]

Originally Posted by Nodrog

and if so, have you always been like that since you were a child, or did you consciously choose to become ambidextrous? If the latter, how old were you (and what made you decide to do so?)

My Nanna's ambidextrous. She was left handed, and they didnt like that at her school, so they tied her left arm behind her back and made her write/eat etc. with her right.

[Dante Hicks]

I'm sort of ambidextrous. Most tasks which require some "strength" will be done with my left hand (throwing a ball say). Writing I use my right hand, but my hand-writing is awful (as in, barely can hold a pen). So I'm sort of neither handed.

I can use both feet if playing football (rubbish with either though).

My mum was naturally left handed, but the Catholic morons who brought her up thought that was some sort of bad sign so they would beat her knuckles or similar until she wrote with her right hand. She now uses her right hand for writing (again, not brilliantly) but left for everything else.

[MrL_JaKiri]

I used to do tasks with either hand as a child, but not any more, or at least not the more complicated things like writing.

[LHC]

I'm fairly shit with my left foot when playing football, and my left hand is really useless.

I think left handers are more typically ambidextrous.

[skiddy]

Originally Posted by 1-X

I thought ambidexterity was specifically hand related

the timer has started for the first wanking joke

I can wank with both hands - at the same time too!

[skiddy]

176 Minutes

[midge5]

Originally Posted by Dante Hicks

I'm sort of ambidextrous. Most tasks which require some "strength" will be done with my left hand (throwing a ball say). Writing I use my right hand, but my hand-writing is awful (as in, barely can hold a pen). So I'm sort of neither handed.

My brother is similar except even with strength tasks he shares them out.


In cricket he bats left handed but golf and table tennis he would use his right, when bowling in cricket it is right handed but he then writes with his left.

[Marilyn Manson]

Originally Posted by skiddy

176 Minutes

You go in for long-distance wanks?

What an athelete!

[skiddy]

Originally Posted by Marilyn Manson

You go in for long-distance wanks?

What an athelete!

I have known myself to go for the entirety of Playboy's evening offerings on Sky, which is around about 6 hours.

I was quite impressed. Haven't managed it again since though.

[Marilyn Manson]

Stop boastin' and start a roastin'

[Deathjam|wee]

i can type with both hands does that count

[Nodrog]

Originally Posted by pablissimo

Instead of asking the question, why dont you actively try and develop your weaker hand into something other than 'dangly appendage #2'

I dont know, thats kind of why I wanted to find someone who was ambidextrous and ask them. I've been trying to wriite with my left hand for the last month or so, its pretty hard.

[Dace]

"I used to be ambidextrous but now i'm all right"



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[Dace]

On a seroius note ...

I don't use my left hand very much.

However i'm "reasonably" good (comparatively) with both feet.

ie i play 5 aside football 3 times a week. I score from approx 1/3 of my shoots. Of those 1/3 are with my left foot. I also use both feet when passing.

I've used both feet at football since forever (ie i can remember having to play left wing in games at school because i was one of the few who could actually hit a cross/pass with my left).

[pablissimo]

If you write with your left hand and your right hand at the same time, your left hand draws things backwards! Assuming you're right handed. And your brain works the way it's supposed to.

Though in my case the thing the left hand draws is scrawled shite.

[Cayl]

I was ambidextrous when I first started writing and such. My mom being a teacher took me to the local college education department, where they made me do some writing tests and told my mom to make me learn things right handed. Later (3rd grade) I broke my right arm and found that lack of practice had indeed made me thoroughly right handed, but as has been noted, practice by anyone with their offhand can indeed produce good results.

[Radical Edward]

mirror writing is easier with your left hand if you are right handed. I find so anyway.

[Dante Hicks]

I'd spaz it up with either foot so it's a moot point.

[Nodrog]

Originally Posted by pablissimo

If you write with your left hand and your right hand at the same time, your left hand draws things backwards! Assuming you're right handed. And your brain works the way it's supposed to.

Though in my case the thing the left hand draws is scrawled shite.

Nah I managed to write a different word with each at the same time this morning, both in the correct direction. The handwriting was obviously appalling though.

[Stew]

Originally Posted by Nodrog

Nah I managed to write a different word with each at the same time this morning, both in the correct direction.

Thats's bloody hard that is!
Leonardo da Vinci could apparently right huge essays/theses etc at the same time.

[Nodrog]

I have to concentrate really hard when writing with my left hand coz the movement obviously isnt as natural with my right hand. So when writing with both hands, I have to concentrate on my left hand and 'automate' my right hand, which means my handwriting ends up better with the left hand than the right. I assume that once I get better at writing with my left hand itll be either since then I could automate both and devote my brain power to actually writing the correct word, rather than forming letter shapes etc.

I heard there was someone who could write in latin with his left and greek with his right (at the same time), which sounds pretty damn cool.


edit : apparently da vinci (being left handed) just mirrored exactly what right handed people do, and hence his notebooks were all written from right to left, with his letters back to front (so it would look normal if you looked at it in a mirror). I read that on the internet though so it probably isnt true.

[pablissimo]

Originally Posted by Nodrog

Nah I managed to write a different word with each at the same time this morning, both in the correct direction. The handwriting was obviously appalling though.

I can't manage that; just tried. In fact, I just tried tapping on the desk with each hand to a different beat (so that the left hand's beat wasn't some time multiple of the right) but it just merged into both hands tapping at the same rhythm regardless.

[Nodrog]

can you pat your head and rub your stomach at the same time?

[pablissimo]

Yes. Odd. So maybe it's related to my not being able to keep track of two rhythms at the same time as opposed to do two different physical actions at once.

I'll give the writing thing another go when I've got a bit of time. It'll still end up with my left hand writing backwards.

[Nodrog]

the rythym thing is hard. I assume you'd do it by starting off with one hand, automating, then concentrating on the ryhthm of the other. I cant get it to work though. Ive just realised that i can write the same word with both hands in the right direction with very little effort, which is cool.

[Stew]

I can do the rythm thing, not the writing thing though.