Today is a Sinister Day...

[Stealhead]

I am right handed but can use my left hand just about as well. What do they call that? Ambidextrous. Anyway they(my parents) let me choose which hand I wanted to write with and I choose right of course I was a bit better writing with my right hand.

I wear my watch on my left wrist. I use both hands about equally though.

@ Pisces aren't you shackled by time anyway if you choose to carry a timepiece even if it is not directly on your wrist?

[Sailor Steve]

Something that has always intrigued me is the technique for playing stringed instruments. They make "backwards" guitars for lefties. The reason I find this odd is that in a so-called "right-handed" instrument it's the left hand that does the hardest part. I would have thought that a southpaw would find this easier. Then again, I don't know how the brain really works in these matters, so I accept the apparent reality for what it is.

[Oberon]

I knew someone in high school who fractured their right arm pretty badly and had to have it in a sling for a few months, during that time they started writing with their left hand. When the sling and cast came off, they stayed writing with their left hand.

[Stealhead]

They really adapted quickly. I would think most people would take several months or so to swap hands if they had lost the dominant hand.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

They really adapted quickly. I would think most people would take several months or so to swap hands if they had lost the dominant hand.

I was surprised too, I don't know if they still use their left hand, it's been a while since then, but I remember their hand-writing started off terrible but steadily improved, even our English teacher commented on it.

[swamprat69er]

My Dad was a southpaw. He told me of the many times he would get the yardstick cracked across his knuckles, arm,back or whatever other body part the sadist (teacher) chose to hit just because he was writing with his left hand. Fortunately for me I am right handed.

[Stealhead]

I always wonder if it was a regional/time period thing. My dad is a lefty and he born in 1939 during his younger school years he went to school in Pennsylvania the teachers seemed not to care too much.I think he said that his kindergarten and 1st grade teacher sort of suggested using the right but if the kid did not switch they would not bother forcing them. Of course this was in a predominantly German Protestant community.

My dad is so hardcore lefty he even has his mouse on the left side of the keyboard.

Recon the mistrust of the left hand goes back a long way. I know some in cultures the left hand is the "dirty" hand.

[Rhodes]

Here, I think, we never had the imposition of changing a left-hand persons to use the right hand.
My father is a both ambidextrous, he only trouble is that in shooting if a left hand, so the caribine and other rifles had to be for left handed. He also shoots bows and 2 of them are also for left handed.
The good thing for me is that he loves shooting long bows!

[MadCowMoo]

I have a left handed piano when I've had too much sauce

[Jimbuna]

On holiday

Make Left-Handers Day an excuse for a fun game – left-handed volleyball on the beach, or left-hand only drinking at the bar – with forfeits for the losers!

Never been a problem...world champion at that

[swamprat69er]

Dad was born in '22 and went to school in the '30's in Toronto, ON.

[Garion]

It's the hand o the De'il yi ken, strap yon left appendage behind yer back NOW! The right hand is the hand of the Lord!.

Well that was the old days....

Now I believe yoo can get a cream for it

Cheers

Jev

erm Gary
Copy of my post over at Matrix Games

[vienna]

Remember probably the greatest ever right-hander who adapted to left-handedness: Lord Horatio Nelson...


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[gordonmull]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Something that has always intrigued me is the technique for playing stringed instruments. They make "backwards" guitars for lefties. The reason I find this odd is that in a so-called "right-handed" instrument it's the left hand that does the hardest part. I would have thought that a southpaw would find this easier. Then again, I don't know how the brain really works in these matters, so I accept the apparent reality for what it is.

With the bass, from the beginning the dominant hand needs to be able to pluck the strings leaving you to forget about it and concentrate on the recessive(?) hand. It's hard to explain something that just "feels" right but I don't ever think about my right hand on the bass, it just does its thing. The left, which makes the actual notes, has all my focus. Unless I'm slapping. My right needs a bit more attention then because I'm not really practiced enough with that style. I think what I'm trying to say is that I can let my dominant hand get on with the easy stuff and not have to worry about it allowing me to concentrate on manipulating my other hand with my full attention.

[Platapus]

I remember my mother telling us stories about when she was in school; being told that she was writing "wrong" and being forced to write with her right hand.

Of course, mothers being what they are, they may just be stories.