Lefty Club

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Lefties predominate at my club, especially since a couple of (formerly) right handed fencers discovered they are left eye dominant and have decided to fence left handed. ( I used to be left eye dominant but when I was skeet/trap shooting my shooting coach covered the focal area of the left lens of my shooting glasses to retrain my focus/aim) Anyway I wouldn't want to have to spend the money for a new jacket and grips right now .

[Valerio Versace]

Born left-handed, I became a right-handed when I was 6 my best friend back then told me that being a lefty was bad. Now, I fence with my left hand and everything else with which hand is closer to the tool I'm using, be it a pen or whatever.
I am and I've always been left-eyed and my legs are still too uncoordinate, even in walking or running, to determine a dominant foot.

[ShadyLane]

Originally Posted by Valerio Versace

I am and I've always been left-eyed and my legs are still too uncoordinate, even in walking or running, to determine a dominant foot.

I used to not know which foot is my dominant foot back in phys. ed. class...and so, this girl in my class unexpectedly pushed me...this resulted in one of my foot walking ahead so I won't fall flat on my face She purposely pushed me without telling me so I'll have to lift one of my foot up (the dominant foot) to prevent myself from falling...I think that was a good idea to determine your dominant foot

Good luck finding your dominant foot

[VorpalCat]

Another lefty here!

I use a right-handed mouse but keep it on the left side of the computer. (But so does my right-handed husband so it works out well at home. Confuses the heck out of everyone at work though!)

Don't have a problem with the smudgies because when I write out something by hand, I usually do it right-to-left. (Not to mention it also cut down on people wanting to borrow my notes waaay back in the old days. )

Was right-eyed at least up until Wednesday night but that eye doesn't seem to be doing as well post-PRK as the left so we'll see if I have to force the left to become dominant or not.

Left on!!

[Nusy]

I can't really use mouse with my right hand.... I got used to it righty. But I use the spoon and the fork (even if I don't need a knife) in my left.

BTW - how do you use cutlery?

[Zilverzmurfen]

Originally Posted by Nusy

BTW - how do you use cutlery?

I use fork/spoon in my left hand and knife in my right.

[ThatReallyHurt]

Originally Posted by Zilverzmurfen

I use fork/spoon in my left hand and knife in my right.

Do you find people looking at you strangely?

[Nusy]

Sometimes I do - all my class thought I was mad to eat soup with my left hand... They know me as righty, as I write that way.

[Inquartata]

Originally Posted by Zilverzmurfen

I use fork/spoon in my left hand and knife in my right.

Z, we can see clearly from your avatar that you use your LEFT hand for knives...

[Nusy]

This thread has shamefully died.... Btw - lefty designs on Nusy's Hungarian Fencing Goods

[seak]

I am a lefty fencer

I also write left handed, but play most other sports right handed (baseball, basketball), but I bat left handed .

I'm all mixed up

When I started snowboarding I couldn't determine a dominant foot (my feet switched off on the push in the back thing) so I just went left foot forward as that is my fencing stance

[Nusy]

Yoohoo! Welcome to the club!

[Go? Fencing?]

I'm a righty who is semi-ambidextrous. I fence with both, although lately I've been focusing on my left. I can write with my left, but at about the level of a second- or third-grader. I do other little things with my left, such as brushing my teeth and eating, to build up my fine motor control.

My mom was a lefty who was forced to become a righty. She now often messes up her left and right. Her nickname in high school was "Lefty".

[Nusy]

Hmm... by the way - any lefties/ambidextrouses (sp?)/righties who mess up left and right? I mean, like, when driving or reading maps you say to turn to the left and then you turn to the right?

[PeterGustafsson]

Hi!

Originally Posted by Nusy

Hmm... by the way - any lefties/ambidextrouses (sp?)/righties who mess up left and right? I mean, like, when driving or reading maps you say to turn to the left and then you turn to the right?

Mrs. Gustafsson - righty who was not taught to read maps in school, thinks in Chinese, Swedish, and English, and generally talks to me in either/both of the latter 2 languages, while at the same time talking to the kids in either/both of the forme 2 languages. You get the picture.

Yay for paranoid dictatorship school systems that do not want people to find their way around without help!

Me-
Right hand:epee, knife, spoon, pen, mouse, fishing rod casting, floorball throwing, most fine motor stuff
both hands:fishing reel winding, floorball catching, ordinary push-ups, wall painting
only left hand: single-arm pushups
Only left foot: soccer kick


Have a nice time!
Peter Gustafsson

[Nusy]

Jesus Christ... Do you ever find your way this way?
I'm glad I know how to read maps... Though, I'd love to try itiner reading once.

[abortretryfail]

I'm left handed... met a cute left handed girl at the fencing club... got hitched... now our two year-old daughter is left handed, too... judging from how she uses her left hand to draw and scribble.

I write left handed also but am ambi in most everything else. Working on my desktop my mouse is to the right... while on my notebook I use the mouse on the side closest to the USB port... which is the left!

I can and have fenced with my right... though movements are not as clean as using my left... but with a little more practice...

[DHCJr]

I'm left handed, no I'm right handed, no I'm ambidextrous. Actually I'm not sure. I am the only left hander in my family and no one tried to change me. I write completely left handed. When I was 8 my parents got me the best baseball glove I ever owned. The trouble was I couldn't throw left handed and because I am so left eye dominent, I couldn't bat left handed either. Over the years I have found were dextrous is needed, I am completely left handed. Where strength is needed, I am completely right handed. Where it needs both I am ambidextrous.

The only problem I have is sometimes with words, I get the first letter and then reverse the rest of the letters. My sense of directions is good and when I teach dance I have no problem in giving directions to the men of what foot to be on or to my partner on what foot she should be on.

Left Handed - Writing, scisors, shooting, guitar

Right Handed - Baseball, Golf, throwing

Ambidextrous - Pool, computers, sewing, cutting with a knife or saw, most tools.

Fencing - I am equally inept with either hand and all weapons.

[D'Art]

Another lefty, who can use their right for certain things, like filling the right sleeve of my jacket.

I can also, in rare cases, use my right hand for batting in softball/cricket/whichever crappy game I'm bored enough to play, as well as golf. Can also brush my teeth and hair with my right hand. Can occasionally kick a ball/small child with my right foot, too.

[akaiyuki]

Originally Posted by Zelda

Count me in. Left handed, left footed and left eyed.

I think I am right handed... I mean... I do everything with my right hand... but:

If my left eye's vision is worse than my right, does that mean I use my left eye more and thus makes me left eyed?
A couple of my righty friends told me they jump with their left leg, a lefty friend told me he jumps with his right leg... I jump with my right leg, so does that make me left footed?

*ponders*