Handy Person!

[debris4spike]

15 Are you right- or left-handed? How competent are you with your non-dominant hand?

Actually I am pretty ambi-dextrous.

Until I was 12 if you had asked be I would have said I was right-handed. However I changed judo instructors then, and the new teacher got annoyed with the previous one over me! He wanted to know why, it had never been questioned as to why I was not being taught right-handed techniques, as most fight right-handed. I argued that I was right, and he asked me to demonstrate a couple of break-falls, and a couple of hold-downns and, yes, I did them left handed!!

About 20 years ago I took up fencing, and learnt right handed, as most of the kit was right, and most people fight right-handed. However I injured my right shoulder about 5 years down the sign and my teacher suggested I tried left handed ... and I was able to swap automatically (in fact a couple of people commented that my posture was better)

So, yes, I write right-handed ... and I suppose I use scissors and knives in my right, but for most things I can use either. Although having severly injured my left hand 13 years ago, I suppose I am now more right-hand dominant, again.

When I was working as an osteopath I worked left-handed.

Comments

[spikereader.livejournal.com]

I'm mostly left handed, but can't use left handed scissors. I also eat right handed with fork in left and knife in right, but if I use just a fork or spoon I use my left.

[debris4spike]

I have never tried left-handed scissors, but can't use right handed ones in my left

I was always being nagged by Mum if I picked up a fork or spoon in my left hand. For me, it is always just whichever hand is nearest to the utensil.

Bizarrely one of my nephews, who is right handed, eats "backwards" with his knife in his left hand ... I am certainly glad Mum never discovered that!!

[desdemonaspace]

I am envious of the ambidextrous! What a fighter you'd be.

[debris4spike]

When I read the book (and saw the film) of "The Princess Bride", I just giggled so much when the fight changes hands ... brilliant!!

[cbtreks.livejournal.com]

I'm right handed but can do some things with my left hand, such as eating or even writing, if I need to. My left hand writing looks awkward but legible. I think if I were forced to write exclusively left handed, I'd be fine. My paternal grandfather was born left handed in 1900 but was forced to switch in school. As an adult he wrote with his right hand and drew with his left. He was a house painter and I think he could do that with either hand . When my dad (right-handed) was a kid, he liked to play baseball. He told us he would throw and catch with his right hand but would always bat southpaw. (A southpaw is a left-handed batter. I don't think pitchers like them much!)

[debris4spike]

my Dad was like me, and only thought he was so good with his left hand because of his job as a teenager where he had to be fairly ambidextrous. But as far as I know his parents were right-handed. So maybe we are just both mad!!

Oh my writing with my left hand is not great ... but neither is it with my right hand either!!!