Anyone left handed on TBD?

[Another Fan]

Last week the dental hygienist I saw was left handed.  She was telling how much of a pain was how her work area was.

 

It’s not something I gave much thought too before.  Just recall Ned Flanders opening a Left handed store on The Simpsons when that show was good.

 

 

If you are left handed is it a pain? 

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

The major inconvenience for me: dragging my hand through all what I have just written.  Generally not much of a problem in these digital days.

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Always threw a ball left handed, but when the baseball association my son played in hired Doyle Baseball School for league wide lessons, I followed their drills and became equally bad with both arms.  Don't blame Doyle, blame the player. 😁

[Just Jack]

I'm left handed when I write, but growing up, basically made myself ambidextrous, because there were not enough "Lefty" scissors in elementary school. 

[Buffalo716]

Being left-handed was the best thing that I ever got for sports 

 

It made me very unpredictable in sports and tougher to guard 

 

My school did force me to write with my right hand growing up though so I became ambidextrous

Edited April 7, 2023 by Buffalo716

[Johnny Hammersticks]

My daughter is a total lefty.  My wife and I are completely right handed.  My son writes with his right hand, but plays all sports (hockey, lacrosse, swings a bat) left handed.  It’s weird how that all works out.

[Augie]

3 hours ago, Ridgewaycynic2013 said:

The major inconvenience for me: dragging my hand through all what I have just written.  Generally not much of a problem in these digital days.

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Always threw a ball left handed, but when the baseball association my son played in hired Doyle Baseball School for league wide lessons, I followed their drills and became equally bad with both arms.  Don't blame Doyle, blame the player. 😁

 

Our grandson just turned 9 and he seems to be ambidextrous in most aspects of life, except for sports. Is it possible to be “neither handed”?  I kid, I kid! (Mostly.) He’s young, healthy and having fun. What else counts? 

 

As for lefties, it’s always nice to have someone to stick at the other end of the dining table so everyone can eat without getting in each other’s  way. 

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

10 minutes ago, Johnny Hammersticks said:

My daughter is a total lefty.  My wife and I are completely right handed.  My son writes with his right hand, but plays all sports (hockey, lacrosse, swings a bat) left handed.  It’s weird how that all works out.

The variation I have on that which makes no sense is I golf right handed, but play hockey left handed.  It's the same basic action.

[Buffalo716]

24 minutes ago, Ridgewaycynic2013 said:

The variation I have on that which makes no sense is I golf right handed, but play hockey left handed.  It's the same basic action.

If you grow up playing hockey in Canada

 

They will teach righties to play left-handed… Seeing as your top hand is the most important in hockey

 

So they will put your dominant hand up top

[Not at the table Karlos]

2 hours ago, Just Jack said:

I'm left handed when I write, but growing up, basically made myself ambidextrous, because there were not enough "Lefty" scissors in elementary school. 

Same. I write with my left but taught myself to use my right for everything else.  Drs are always like I thought you are left handed but the veins in your right are bigger. I used to do everything left handed up until about 2nd grade then i switched

[Johnny Hammersticks]

20 minutes ago, Buffalo716 said:

If you grow up playing hockey in Canada

 

They will teach righties to play left-handed… Seeing as your top hand is the most important in hockey

 

So they will put your dominant hand up top

 

My son has been playing hockey since he was 4-5.  He’s lefty so when he practices stick handling/shooting he puts a small piece of PVC pipe on his stick and grips it with his bottom hand.  Forces him to control the puck with his top hand.  His bottom hand doesn’t even touch the stick.

[Buffalo716]

4 minutes ago, Johnny Hammersticks said:

 

My son has been playing hockey since he was 4-5.  He’s lefty so when he practices stick handling/shooting he puts a small piece of PVC pipe on his stick and grips it with his bottom hand.  Forces him to control the puck with his top hand.  His bottom hand doesn’t even touch the stick.

Exactly

 

Which is why Canadian hockey purist teach righties to play left-handed

 

Because you get there dominant hand up top where it does all the work… And they can do some insane stuff with dominant hand up top

 

My buddy played Major Junior hockey in Canada… But he’s American.. So he’s a real righty playing righty

 

And he said going back he wishes he grew up playing left-handed… Because he couldn’t imagine how good he’d be with his dominant hand up top

 

You can obviously train the other hand to become very good on top… But he said it’s really nothing like having a dominant hand up there

Edited April 7, 2023 by Buffalo716

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

Interesting the theory on dominant hand.  I never played any sort of organized hockey, just picked up a stick and left felt more natural.  In golf, right seemed far more natural.

[WhoTom]

1 hour ago, Ridgewaycynic2013 said:

The variation I have on that which makes no sense is I golf right handed, but play hockey left handed.  It's the same basic action.

 

I write and eat left-handed, but play sports and guitar right-handed. I play pool left-handed.

 

I'm right-handed with most tools (hammer, screwdriver, saw, drill, etc.), but I'm a lefty with a soldering iron. I shoot a rifle left-handed but I shoot a handgun right-handed.

 

I cook left-handed for everything except slicing something. I'll use my left hand to cut the stem part out of a tomato, but then I switch the knife to my right hand to slice the tomato.

 

I've never really thought much about any of those things - I just pick up the object in whatever way feels natural. Usually, I don't notice  which is the dominant hand until someone else says, "Oh, you're a lefty."

[Augie]

12 minutes ago, WhoTom said:

 

I write and eat left-handed, but play sports and guitar right-handed. I play pool left-handed.

 

I'm right-handed with most tools (hammer, screwdriver, saw, drill, etc.), but I'm a lefty with a soldering iron. I shoot a rifle left-handed but I shoot a handgun right-handed.

 

I cook left-handed for everything except slicing something. I'll use my left hand to cut the stem part out of a tomato, but then I switch the knife to my right hand to slice the tomato.

 

I've never really thought much about any of those things - I just pick up the object in whatever way feels natural. Usually, I don't notice  which is the dominant hand until someone else says, "Oh, you're a lefty."

 

It’s good that you never really thought about it. It just might make you crazy! 😂 

 

It’s actually very cool that people along the way let you do it the way that was natural for you. My son’s school seems to have “corrected him” into being a rightie. His son doesn’t seem to have much of a preference, and I think that’s awesome. My left arm is there mostly to make me look symmetrical. 

 

BTW - has part of you thought of running for President? 

[BADOLBILZ]

 

Yes there are some and they have some very boring stories about it.

Edited April 7, 2023 by BADOLBILZ
oh too late they jumped right on the opportunity to tell the stories

[DrW]

I am extremely right-handed. If I am forced to write with my left hand, I need a couple of seconds for each letter, and even then it is barely legible. Interestingly, is seems to be more of an arm problem. My left hand is perfectly fine when playing piano or organ.

[Ned Flanders]

I write and eat left handed but throw and do a lot of things right handed...I guess you can say I'm amphibious.

[Johnny Hammersticks]

29 minutes ago, BADOLBILZ said:

 

Yes there are some and they have some very boring stories about it.

Are you okay?

[WhoTom]

1 hour ago, Augie said:

It’s good that you never really thought about it. It just might make you crazy! 😂 

 

That's not the reason I'm crazy. 😉

 

[f0neguy]

I’m a lefty for everything except shooting a gun.  My dad got me a left handed bow which was cool.  When we were kids the stocks and bolt actions on our rifles were “normal” so I shot righty.  Expert marksman in the military so I guess I did okay.