Left handed people have it bad

[SP33Demon]

I write lefthanded, but do everything else with my right. Although I can do a lot of other things well with my left, I prefer to use right for things like throwing, shooting, eating. I can almost write competently enough with the right to say I'm ambidextrous, and bet I could with enough practice.

 

[Konigin]

I write and eat with my left, use scissors and mouse with right.

 

[reverend boltron]

I used to instruct Muay Thai Kickboxing and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu for a long time, and I can tell you that the left handed people have a distinct advantage over right handed people. Mostly because people train fighting right handed people so much that they aren't prepared for left handed attacks. When your powerhand is your left hand, and they're used to that being the jab it's easy to land a bunch of good hits. Plus everyone instantly tries to start defending all of your punches, so you can just throw in foot jabs and thai kicks and you're pretty much good to go.

For Jiu Jitsu though it's better too, because people will train using both sides of their body for the moves, but usually during practice they'll stick to one hand, usually their right, so you get used to defending in certain times because of the feeling of it all, but like, I've found that I got a lot more armbars when I did them with my left hand commanding the situation than my right. Even for chokes when my left hand is dominating. So yeah, good times.

 

[Rill22]

I'm a rightie, but do they make left-handed keyboards? Like with the num pad on the left hand side?

 

[SlitheryDee]

I do practically everything with my left hand except use a mouse. I started out playing guitar right handed but my right hand was just too dumb to keep good time when strumming/picking. Switching to a left-handed guitar cleared that right up. Any lefties remember those spiral bound notebooks from school? They used to give me fits until I switched to the ones that were bound at the top.

 

[ColdFusion718]

I am mostly left-handed. I hold chopsticks, scissors, and knives with my left hand while I write, hold forks/spoons with my right.

I've learned to adapt.

 

[Cristatus]

Originally posted by: reverend boltron

Originally posted by: logic1485

Originally posted by: BDawg
Left handed life isn't really that bad... I run into few problems.

My biggest problem may be not being able to use alot of pens because of smearing. I hardly call that life altering.

Oh yea, I forgot to mention that problem as well.

The only downside is that we have to use pens that use inks that dry quickly (which means that you can't use fountain pens, or rollerball pens).

I like how fountain pens write, but to use them, I have to use an awkward position where I curve my hand over the top to write, so that my wrist won't smear the ink, and hopefully, if/when my lower arm passes over the ink, it's dry.

But mostly, I just don't use anything that doesn't dry quickly.

I started writing backwards. Like from the other side of the page with the letters mirrored. It's just as easy to read, the only hard part was retraining my fingers. Seriously though, it works, if you're ever bored, I'd suggest doing it. It's almost like switching to dvorak.

I am thinking about selling some left handed shoes though.. har har har.. ::taps microphone:: is this thing on?

Pics of such writing? I don't quite understand what you are saying, but seems interesting.

Obviously, I could just switch to Arabic, or Urdu, or any other language that writes from right to left .

 

[Dedpuhl]

lefty here. The only thing I can do right-handed is swing a golf club.....which is odd cause I bat left-handed...

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: reverend boltron
I used to instruct Muay Thai Kickboxing and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu for a long time, and I can tell you that the left handed people have a distinct advantage over right handed people. Mostly because people train fighting right handed people so much that they aren't prepared for left handed attacks. When your powerhand is your left hand, and they're used to that being the jab it's easy to land a bunch of good hits. Plus everyone instantly tries to start defending all of your punches, so you can just throw in foot jabs and thai kicks and you're pretty much good to go.

For Jiu Jitsu though it's better too, because people will train using both sides of their body for the moves, but usually during practice they'll stick to one hand, usually their right, so you get used to defending in certain times because of the feeling of it all, but like, I've found that I got a lot more armbars when I did them with my left hand commanding the situation than my right. Even for chokes when my left hand is dominating. So yeah, good times.

In addition your liver is on the right side of your body 9where a left habnded body punch would land) and a hard punch to the liver will disable someone real quick.

 

[Amplifier]

I thought left handers were only 1 out of 9. 36%? Wins

 

[SlitheryDee]

Originally posted by: Amplifier
I thought left handers were only 1 out of 9. 36%? Wins

Ah but ATOT isn't a representative sample of the population as a whole. The nerd population must be made up of a disproportionate number of lefties compared to the rest of humanity.

 

[necine]

I write with my right hand, but do everything else with my left hand. Weird.

 

[engineereeyore]

Originally posted by: logic1485
I'm a lefty (well, not totally: I write with my left hand only, use a spoon with my left hand, and do pretty much everything (and I mean everything else with my right hand)

This means that on PDAs and touch screen phones, it sucks for me with hardware buttons on the other side.

Why don't they make left-handed PDAs/phones/hybrids?


What hand do you guys write with?

I also wonder how many of your are ambi-dextruos (sp?).

And are there any other weird cases like me, where you only do somethings with one hand, some with the other?

I'm exactly the same way. Bat right-handed, throw right-handed, write left-handed.

 

[Firebot]

Originally posted by: Nutdotnet
Left:
- Writing
- Brushing Teeth
- Eating
- Fine, meticulous work that requires detail

Right:
- Everything sports related (except throwing a frisbee or ping-pong, go figure)
- Playing guitar

I consider myself a lefty.

I'm the exact same as this.

 

[Cristatus]

Originally posted by: SlitheryDee

Originally posted by: Amplifier
I thought left handers were only 1 out of 9. 36%? Wins

Ah but ATOT isn't a representative sample of the population as a whole. The nerd population must be made up of a disproportionate number of lefties compared to the rest of humanity.

I love how this is exactly why mathematical samples suck.

 

[CanOWorms]

I'm ambidextrous, too. I pick my nose with my left hand, but eat the contents with my right hand.

 

[eakers]

I taught myself how to write with both hands because my right hand would frequently get tired/achey (I think I have arthritsis or something) when I was in school so one day i just started switching back and forth, its not difficult. its also highly useful for when i need to use a mouse and write at the same time.

 

[Justin218]

those little college right handed desks... those suck.

 

[skace]

I write with my right hand, mouse w/ right, scissors, eat, etc. But I play all sports with my left hand. Left handed pitching, kicking, basketball shooting. To top it off, my right handed penmanship is fvcking abysmal.

 

[Babbles]

I'm predominately right handed, but I'll do quite a bit of stuff with my left hand. When I eat it is nearly 50/50 which hand I'll use, often I'll use a calculator with my left hand, and about 50/50 on which hand I use when I am at the retail store and I need to enter my PIN with those stylus thingies. In a quasi-ambidextrous manner, often at times I'll use highlighters in my left hand and use a pen in my right hand. I shoot darts almost exclusively with my left hand; I'm not too good at that entire throwing darts thing, but I am much, much better using my left hand than my right. I also have no problem shooting a pistol with my left hand, even though I do have a tendency to favor my right when doing that. Same thing when playing pool.

 

[letdown427]

When tapping a kidney, I use my left hand. I also use my mobile/cell phone with my left hand (for small things. An actual text = two thumbs of fury)

I also taught myself writing left handed a bit in school, but never to a neat/fast level. Well, my right hand was never that neat either, but it stayed on the lines at least.

And finallly, I'm ambidextrous as far as racket sports are concerned. Well, not serving, but other than that, can hit fine with either hand. Had a mean left forehand in squash for example. And badminton. Haven't played tennis as much, but ol' lefty did work.

Other than that, right handed. Mouse, gutiar, writing, throwing, golf clubs etc

I guess to you I drive left handed aswell, as left hand changes gear 'over here'

 

[Rogeee]

Hmmmmm, maybe it's time I open a "leftorium" store.

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: KLin
Southpaws unite!!!

There is one thing I hate about being left handed. In school, after writing an essay or something I would end up with a bunch of graphite on the side of my hand that touches the paper. Very annoying.

Should learn to write your sentences backwards.

 

[Cristatus]

Originally posted by: Justin218
those little college right handed desks... those suck.

OMG...I have to totally agree. That is discrimination at it's best (or is that: at it's worst?)

Either way, I hated how they made all the lefties (including me) use those bedevilled things.

 

[Miramonti]

Lefty is the right hand.

Go lefties.