Left handed

I take it you're not one of those poor right handed people either, Youfreeme? :biggrin:

 

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Ooh, some interesting lefty facts...

Left-handers are less likely to be left-hemisphere dominant for language:
In the vast majority of the population, language function is nearly always localised to the left hemisphere. This is why a stroke or other brain injury suffered to the left side of the brain tends to lead to language problems. Among right-handers, left-sided dominance for language approaches upwards of 95 per cent prevalence. However, among left-handed people this drops to 70 per cent, with the others either having language localised to the right hemisphere, or spread evenly across both hemispheres.

Lefties have an advantage in many sports:
Left-handers are disadvantaged in some sports because of the safety rules - for example, in polo, the mallet must be held on the right-hand side of the horse. However, in sports where opponents compete against each other directly, face to face, such as boxing or tennis, the left-hander has a distinct advantage. Stated simply, they are more used to facing right-handed opponents (which the majority of their rivals will be) than right-handers are used to facing left-handers. Indeed, one evolutionary account for why left-handedness has survived is that it confers a fighting advantage - the so-called "fighting hypothesis". There are many studies in the literature that explore the left-hander's advantage in sports like boxing and fencing.

 

Hey, I can be imaginative! And can you really be overly scientific?...

 

I was looking for the opposite of artistic But yes, it is possible to judge/perceive and handle the world through an overly scientific approach. I guess it is especially overly scientific if you disregard all the other ways of handling the world. Well balanced seems always better. Not that being overly scientific has to cause a problem by default!

 

hmm, I guess so

 

This is absolutely true. I used to be a fighter and I enjoyed being able to switch from right to left at will. It gave me a number of advantages.

 

Im slightly ambidextrous : broken my right shoulder and needed to learn to write with my left. lol wiz with the left golf swing. however my left was single handed but still right sided. being a musician probably helps some.

 

My husband is a lefty. I'm a righty.

I don't care either way. He's hot no matter what.

 

Sure. Basketball with either hand. Boxing with either hand. Batting with either hand. I used to pitch fast pitch softball (right hand) and practiced with my left for a bit, just to see if I could do it. I tried it in a game and I beaned the shit out of a guy. Never did THAT again. For some reason, I can open jars, etc, much better with my left. Cannot write with my left at all.

Wiz-you can relate to this. I never got in many fights as a kid because my uncle was a heavy weight boxer in his youth and he taught me some stuff that an opponent that picked a fight with me could tell immediately that they had made a mistake. However, a senior picked a fight with me when I was a freshman( me=6'3" ,185 at 14) after football practice one day. He took a poke at me with his left and I thought it was a jab. It was a lead left and damn near got me. I switched to left and took care of it. Rightys always have a tough time with leftys in the ring.

 

I masturbate with my left hand, but that's all.

 

I was a boxer and martial artist. Being able to punch effectively from either side was handy but I utilized the footwork advantage even more. I control where the fight is, whether we're in an open or closed stance, how far the other guy can roll, etc. I can mess up your distance and keep you having to rethink your next move. Meanwhile, I already know what I'm going to do because I know how you are going to react to my footwork and when. I can use my reach or footwork from either side to quickly close the gap. All of that adds up to an aggravating fight for the guy who wants to stick to a right handed or left handed game plan. Being effective from either side gives you all of that advantage before you even throw a punch or kick! Good times! I wish I was 20 years younger again. :afro:

 

Man, so do I! Most of the time , all I had to do was whip out the Ali jab and noses changed minds! Stlll have it, but don't know much about martial arts, other than what I see on the boob tube in the Octagon. I was mentioning the lefty-righty situation as concerns straight boxing. What's different now, is that if in the 50s you got in a fight, it was understood( pretty much) that it would be Marquis of Queensbury rules. And with very few exceptions---it was. With some wrestling thrown in. Who knows what people do now. Hell, maybe kicking and all the rest of it goes. I take back the first sentence----wish I was 50 years younger!! I know--wish in one hand and----------




(My good friend Becky is taking care of business for me now!)

 

It wasn't very long ago that I was still doing martial arts. I might return to it some time. You can do that at any age. But boxing was when I was a kid and also in college. But rules only apply in the ring. As a martial artist....I will absolutely never be the one to start or escalate a situation. I will never be the attacker. I will only use the amount of force necessary to defend myself and others. But once attacked....there are no rules. There are no cheap shots. I will use anything around me as a weapon if I need to...even if the attacker is unarmed (I probably wouldn't do that because I want my hands free but I reserve the right to do so if I had to). My brother always used to say "There is no shame to my game...I will bite you on the balls if that's what it take to defend myself!"

We might be threadjacking now though.

 

I am a small womon - there is no way if a guy attacks me I am going to even consider fighting fair the last time I just tried getting away I was raped and almost killed

 

Like anything you need both hands for?

 

i suspect that's normal. for one thing, you probably naturally pick up the jar with your right hand and thus, you naturally grab the lid with your left, so that's what your body is used to. but more importantly, opening a jar is really not a handedness thing anyway; it's a fully two handed task. and there are two major differences between which way you do it. first, you're twisting inward instead of outward if your left hand is on the lid. and second, doing it lefty leaves you basically pushing awkwardly with your fingers, while the right hand on the lid has you pushing with the meat of your hand while your fingers add a little additional grip and pull on top of that.

 

I write faster with my right hand, but more accurately/neatly with my left. I play guitar right-handed, most other things are either/or. I switch from left to write when writing, depending on something...not sure what...mood?

In terms of people I've dated...I don't even know. Lefties and righties fairly equally, I'd guess.

 

I'm a lefty We are said to be creative and extremely artistic individuals.

 

I'm left handed and have to write with the paper absolutely sideways.
I use scissors with my right hand though.