Your less coordinated hand

I'm right handed. But for some reason I deal cards better with my left hand.

Whether your left handed or right handed, can you do certain things better with the less coordinated side of your body?

 

After 30 years of playing basketball I’ve become as proficient with my left hand as with my right :2thumbsup:


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It's not so unusual you would be better dealing cards with your left, it's the more supple side
When you are right handed you do a lot of coarse stuff with your right hand thoughout your life. It makes your right stronger but also less supple. It's the reason stringed instruments are designed so that the left hand does the more delicate work of fingering the fretboard while the right does the coarser action, holding the pick or bow, transferring energy to the system by activating the strings.

Ambidextrous people, if they are so inclined, would seem to me ideally suited for piano.

 

I am very right handed.But my left hand has got some repetitive strain injury from when I was playing a cheap acoustic guitar with high action on the strings a lot and something just clicked and it kind of fucked up.I can still play,and of course it's easier on electric guitar,but even on my nice new Yamaha my left hand can ache a bit if I've been playing heavy barre chords a lot.It's just one of those things.

 

My entire left side is less coordinated. It's a major bitch for roller derby. It took me months to be able to transition left.

 

My dominant side is right. I do play all sports though left, no clue why. I can play right handed as well but left is more comfortable for most of them.

 

World class golfer Phil Micklson plays left-handed, but I recently heard he is actually right handed. I guess he learned to swing a club by standing opposite and facing his right-handed dad and mirroring his movements.

It's known that the right hemisphere of the brain controls the muscles on the left side of your body, and the left hemisphere controls the right side muscles....which is interesting considering the idea of right brain=creative side, left brain=logical side.... begging the question;

Are leftys inherently more creative?

Or maybe a better question would be;
is a left-handed approach the more creative way? :beatnik:

 

I'm right handed but I believe my left hand can grip things stronger.

 

my left hand only gets good at stuff when i break my right hand.

(i'm right-handed)

 

I'm a freak,I must be,I'm constantly being told it. It's because although I'm left-handed,I can draw two different pictures simultaneously,plus I can 'mirror-write' with my right hand...i.e.,with my right hand I can write whatever my left hand is writing-but backwards,from right-to-left. Plus I play guitar left-handed,but can play right-handed guitars 'upside-down' without having to think about it. As a result of which I'm often called a freak.

 

Seems both of my hands are uncoordinated these days... Damned Arthritis.

 

that's pretty awesome that you can do that

 

Not really porkstock. As a child it never occurred to me that other kids couldn't do the same;so by the time I realised,and learned to conceal it,too many people knew-and I became 'The Freak'. Regarding the guitars,I didn't even know it WAS upside-down. I was 5 when I picked one up [in a children's home-different story] and started to play it. I have NO idea how,I'd not had music lessons of any sort,it just happened. I play 'lefty' by choice,but if one isn't available I'll just turn a 'righty' over. Yep....ju suis un freak.

 

if you are out of grade school, you shouldn't have to deal with shit like that. choose the people you surround yourself with. if someone calls you a freak...they can fuck off.

 

Im a righty, in all things

 

I never officially learned the guitar. But I attempted it a couple times. When I first tried playing it, people would ask if I was left handed. When I said no, they'd say, "well you're holding it incorrectly." To me it felt better to strum the strings left handed.