So as a left-hander you get a small bonus to your brain from being forced to use your right hand a lot and a right-hand design world. When you buy especially left-handed made things, you actually rob yourself of that advantage of gaining that ambidexterity. So I don’t have a good hand and a bad hand. I have a fine dexterity hand in my left and a raw power hand in my right since that’s traditionally what I’ve opened doors and other things with my whole life.
Whether or not I play a sport, with a certain hand varies by the activity
So in baseball I throw and catch left-handed
In ping pong and badminton and other racket sports, I can play either hand but generally I favor my right
When boxing or doing MMA I typically take a right-handed stance because I want my precision parrying hand out front and I want my raw power hand in back
For that reason I also shoot pool right-handed (left hand in front)
In volleyball, I hit left-handed
So yeah, generally I discourage my fellow Lefty brothers from doing a bunch of things to specifically accommodate themselves and instead embrace dual use that the righties will never have.
Left-Handedness is a spectrum, from people who can only use their left hand.for everything, to people who only do a few things left-handed, but are naturally right handed for everything else. Then there are people like you, who can do some things lefty, some right, and some ambidextrous.
I am fully right-handed, except that I write with my left hand. I can’t do anything else left-handed. I throw, swing a bat, play musical instruments, etc. all right handed. Yet, people see me writing, and say I’m left-handed. Even my mother, who should understand that I’m not really left-handed, tells people I’m a Lefty.
I’m right-handed. I just write left-handed, for some unfathomable reason. That does not make me left-handed.
So as a left-hander you get a small bonus to your brain from being forced to use your right hand a lot and a right-hand design world. When you buy especially left-handed made things, you actually rob yourself of that advantage of gaining that ambidexterity. So I don’t have a good hand and a bad hand. I have a fine dexterity hand in my left and a raw power hand in my right since that’s traditionally what I’ve opened doors and other things with my whole life.
Whether or not I play a sport, with a certain hand varies by the activity
So in baseball I throw and catch left-handed
In ping pong and badminton and other racket sports, I can play either hand but generally I favor my right
When boxing or doing MMA I typically take a right-handed stance because I want my precision parrying hand out front and I want my raw power hand in back
For that reason I also shoot pool right-handed (left hand in front)
In volleyball, I hit left-handed
So yeah, generally I discourage my fellow Lefty brothers from doing a bunch of things to specifically accommodate themselves and instead embrace dual use that the righties will never have.
Thanks to everyone who responded to this comment when it had all that poor formatting, I have subsequently gone back and fixed it
Left-Handedness is a spectrum, from people who can only use their left hand.for everything, to people who only do a few things left-handed, but are naturally right handed for everything else. Then there are people like you, who can do some things lefty, some right, and some ambidextrous.
I am fully right-handed, except that I write with my left hand. I can’t do anything else left-handed. I throw, swing a bat, play musical instruments, etc. all right handed. Yet, people see me writing, and say I’m left-handed. Even my mother, who should understand that I’m not really left-handed, tells people I’m a Lefty.
I’m right-handed. I just write left-handed, for some unfathomable reason. That does not make me left-handed.
Same here, ambidexterity power! Though I’m regularly told “You’re not so much left-handed, it’s more like you have 2 left hands…”