POLL: HANDEDNESS : LH, RH, or Ambidextrous.

[Jay.]

I have to use both. One hand just doesn't do it for me.



Seriously though, I eat with one and write with the other.
Throw with my right, catch with my left, and many others.

 

[W3H5]

I have an interesting case of foot positioning, when I get going from a standing start it's just about always the right foot that goes first but if I'm riding off the saddle and not pedalling I always have the left foot in the front, the right in the rear. No way I could do it the other way round, probably a good way to guarantee a crash on a technical section. Also if I have to ride with only one hand on the bar it absolutely has to be the left one, trying to manage with the right hand is likely to end up in a ditch even on a straight road.

I would say the exact same applies to me except the other way around; left for getting going from a stop and right forward for coasting.

In a turn I always have the inside foot at the highest point on the stroke and the outside foot lowest down. I think this is perhaps just an instinct I've carried over from off-road riding to plant my weight on the outside of the bike for better traction, as one would riding motocross.

As for a dominant hand when riding I would say that is my left although I'm quite comfortable with either. Having years of throwing 'life savers' over both shoulders for riding both sides of the road (UK & now Thai on the left and China on the right) it really doesn't make too much difference to me.

It's funny, at school some of my colleagues complain that some students can't draw a letter properly. I've tried to explain that a left-hander doesn't draw lines from left to right and therefore will not follow a specific sequence when drawing a letter of the alphabet. They just don't get it. Whoever thought sequencing the strokes of a letter was a good idea was a complete fool (because letter 'A' is letter 'A' no matter how it's drawn) and more than likely right handed.

 

[GDII]

I'm left handed when it comes to writing, I'm no use with my right. I use a right handed drawing board with my left hand. I play any ball throwing related sports and tennis or badminton with my left hand. But I'll hold a cricket bat right handed, play soccer right footed, although I have taught myself to play with both feet now so I'm not really right footed anymore. When it comes to using a knife and fork for eating I'll use a fork with my left hand to scoop food but when I go to cut something like a steak I'll swap my fork to my right hand and my knife goes to my left for cutting.

My left arm is far stronger than my right and my right leg is stronger than my left so I'm not sure what I am. I'd say I'm left handed as using my right hand generally only happens if I don't use my left hand for a particular task.
It's still a bit confusing as I'm clearly left handed but definitely right footed. I'm not sure if the 2 relate.

 

[photonrider]

Is there a connection between handedness and the US Presidency?

Hm.

 

[axletramp]

I guess not. It's just that that picture features left-handed Presidents. Probably the same proportion as in any occupation.

 

[photonrider]

Yes. But two rather thought-provoking statements in that account:

"The handedness of presidents of the United States is difficult to establish with any certainty before recent decades."

And:

"As of 2014, three out of the last four presidents have been left-handed."

Maybe it's time for a right-handed president?
Or one ambidextrous - that might start a whole new trend.

If I were to place money on the next President, though, I'd be checking their hand-movements.

If one were to examine the handedness of British prime ministers . . . not many lefties in that crowd - which means . . . well, probably nothing, I guess. Or could be that being left-handed was quite frowned upon across the pond, and some lefties hid the trait.

 

[BobK]

Given the tiny sample size I don't think you could draw any statistically valid conclusions here.

But then again, handedness would be a better criterion for choosing a president than some of the criteria I know some people have used.

 

[TenEightyOne]

Left for writing, piano and knives.

Right for tennis, cricket, golf, guitar.

 

[photonrider]

I've never seen a left-handed piano.

 

[Cale]

Right handed. In most situations my left hand could be lopped off and my day to day life would not be affected.

I can bowl left handed though. Pretty decent too.

 

[photonrider]

Was thinking of visiting Aussie . . . but:

"According to a special-assessment scale of handedness adopted for primates, kangaroos pulled down the highest grades," says Yegor Malashichev of Saint Petersburg State University in Russia. "We observed a remarkable consistency in responses across bipedal species in that they all prefer to use the left, not the right, hand.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-06-lefties-kangaroos.html#jCp

Does this mean they lead with their left? Or . . .?
I don't want to get one below the belt.

*postpones trip Down Under.

 

[kikie]

Still right handed, although I almost became left handed due to tendinitis on my right ellbow.

 

[photonrider]

I think some pages ago someone mentioned that they hurt their right hand and became fairly adept lefties because of being forced to use the left hand.
As I have always encouraged throughout this thread - use both hands as much as possible.
You will also, then, be using both sides of your brain as much as possible.

 

[kikie]

I think some pages ago someone mentioned that they hurt their right hand and became fairly adept lefties because of being forced to use the left hand.
As I have always encouraged throughout this thread - use both hands as much as possible.
You will also, then, be using both sides of your brain as much as possible.

The best way to do this is to juggle. It also stimulates your brain.