I’m predominantly right handed but since being young I’ve always used scissors with my left hand. As I get older I seem to do more naturally with my left but it’s a fucked up kind of ambidextrous. With single handed flogging I use my right hand but if I go to two handed florentining I become left handed  I asked Aemelia hawk about it on a workshop and she said she’d never come across it before.
I do a lot of rope left handed but not everything. A half hitch can only be left, I look like a simpleton trying to do it right handed! I’ve never considered myself ambidextrous because I can’t do things with both hands but I’ve found out it’s cross dominant which is a form of ambidexterity. Never knew it existed before.
So hands I’m cross dominant but just to confused and fuck me up more I’m also mixed dominant - right leg dominant but left eye and left ear dominant. I think this explains why I spend so much of my time confused!!
What are you? Left, right, ambi? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Anything with one hand - left. With two, golf etc - right."
My son is like that. He bowls left handed, bats right handed. He plays tennis left handed and golf right handed. He says it was the way his dad taught him. I think he's a right footed footballer though. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I hold my knife and fork like a left hander and, apparently, I sweep with a broom like a leftie too.
But everything else right?"
Yes. Except when I have to pour and stir something, like mixing gravy granules. I can't control a spoon with my left hand. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I'm predominantly left handed... except when I eat like a right hander... and play golf right handed... but play tennis and badminton left handed... and bowl left handed. Yeah, kinda mixed up  |
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By *horltzMan
over a year ago
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Left/Ambidextrous here , parents right handed but my dad does some stuff left handed ( pool , shooting , ten pin bowling ) my brother is 100% left handed , and my son is right handed but does quite a few things left handed like my dad ! |
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I'm somewhat ambi and hadn't realised I was using left predominantly for many things, when I use my right for others. My writing is better in my right but I enjoy the flexibility overall.
I think it's healthy to have flexibility - though it may be less efficient use of neurology. |
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I think the term is mixed-handed