Left or Right handed

[Silage]

Some time back I was at Hirepool or somesuch and as I signed for the digger or whatever, the assistant commented that 80% of people who came to hire equipment are left-handed. :weird:

As only about 15% of the population are lefties, I am wondering how many bikers are also. I have to assume that as KB is such an intelligent, practical, focused group that you are all like me. See even smilies recognise the normalcy of LH eg :nono: :Punk:

but others... :weird: :motu: :nono: :wait: :no:

Note: this poll displays who voted for what.

[Hitcher]

Right-handed, left-eye dominant and left-footed. The viewfinders are always on the wrong side of cameras and, even worse, video cameras. My Grandpa encouraged me to shoot lefthanded when I was a kid so's I could aim with both eyes open. I've been doing that naturally since I was 13 or so. No problem unless using an automatic rifle that throws the hot cases out and to the rear. Ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch...

[SARGE]

No problem unless using an automatic rifle that throws the hot cases out and to the rear. Ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch...


i have a bit of the same problem Hitch.. i learned to shoot with my right hand , but lost sight in my right eye 20 years ago and had to learn to fire LEFT handed.. my AR-15 was a Right handed weapon and i caught a few rounds to the nose a few times.. i bought a left handed reciever for it and all is good ( no , i dont have it down here .. its in a barn in Ohio in my car, along with a few other toys..)

[Hitcher]

i have a bit of the same problem Hitch.. i learned to shoot with my right hand , but lost sight in my right eye 20 years ago and had to learn to fire LEFT handed.. my AR-15 was a Right handed weapon and i caught a few rounds to the nose a few times.. i bought a left handed reciever for it and all is good ( no , i dont have it down here .. its in a barn in Ohio in my car, along with a few other toys..)
The FN 7.62 SLR required some deft hand work when clearing jams but was otherwise OK for lefthanded use. The M16 was great for a burnt cheek.

[Motu]

I seem to attract lefthanders - in our whanau of 8,half are bent sinister,there is no history of cack handedness in either my wife's or my families....and I am the only one to suffer from a stutter.In one company I worked for at one time more than half the staff were gauche.Always been a leftwinger......

Language,most languages,seem to have it in for us.....

[Indiana_Jones]

I'm a left-handed rightwing bastard :devil2:

-Indy

[zadok]

In terms of writing, right handed. When it comes to holding a cricket bat, golf club etc, left handed. :weird:

[jazbug5]

Write with my right, pick up stuff/tie knots/thread needles etc left handed. Unfortunately I f*cked my left wrist up by breaking it a few too many times, so can't do anything heavy with it...
Left eye dominant like Hitcher.

In my family most are left handed or ambidextrous; only my granddad and my dad are 'properly' right handed...

[BNZ]

There seems to be a fault in the link between my brain and my left hand. I dont trust my left hand to do anything. Legs are ok though, I am natural footed but can wakeboard just as comfortably switch.

[Beemer]

Right-handed for writing, but do a lot of things with my left hand. Hold the phone to my right ear - feels weird if I use the left!

Like Hitcher, I always look through a camera viewfinder with my left eye - real pain for me being a photographer as there are always heaps of controls on the right side of a camera and I often change the settings with my nose! I also put my left foot down when I stop. I'm also pedantic about spelling and grammar - be scary if we were related...!

[Sniper]

Im luckly ambidextrous except when it comes to using a hammer. Then for some reason after 20seconds I cant use either of my hands :weird:

[Smorg]

:Punk: Lefty lefty lefty :Punk:

Maybe thats why everytime ive dropped my bike its on the right hand side :whocares:

[onearmedbandit]

I was ambidextrous, still am with my feet. But obviously right handed now, maybe one day I'll be ambidextrous again.

[DemonWolf]

Right-handed, left-eye dominant and left-footed. The viewfinders are always on the wrong side of cameras and, even worse, video cameras. My Grandpa encouraged me to shoot lefthanded when I was a kid so's I could aim with both eyes open. I've been doing that naturally since I was 13 or so. No problem unless using an automatic rifle that throws the hot cases out and to the rear. Ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch...

Same with me here.. Left-eye dominant right handed.. but I do and can use my hand (though sometimes ya would wonder why!) so semi ambidextrous

[bugjuice]

I'm ambydixtriss.. can do fukall with both hands..

[vifferman]

Interestingly (or, perhaps not) left-handed people are less left-handed than right-handed people are right-handed. So it's easier for left-handed people to use either hand than for right-handed people to. I reckon "ambidextrous", which means roughly "equally right-handed" should really be "ambisinistrous" (or whatever the correct word would be).

There seems to be a higher than usual percentage of IT people who are left-handed, I reckon (haven't done a formal study - just an observation).
I'm firmly right-handed, but one of my three kids is left-handed, as is one of my three sisters. My left-handed son does most things left-handed, but prefers to play guitar right-handed, although I have a suspicion he'd be better if he played a left-handed guitar.

[Lucyloo]

Write Left handed, but most other things right handed.....but basically ambidextrous when I want to be. Comes in handy when playing pool!
Think I probably do most things right handed because it was easier to adapt in a mainly right handed world.

[scumdog]

Play golf/hockey etc right handed, do writing, throwing shoot etc left handed.

Being left handed helps when clearing an auto pistol - but sucks when cranking on the bolt of a scope-sighted rifle!

Better for shooting out of passenger side window of car.

Worse for smudging writing.

[Hitcher]

My left-handed son does most things left-handed, but prefers to play guitar right-handed, although I have a suspicion he'd be better if he played a left-handed guitar.
I once worked with a guy who was very left-handed and had taught himself to play a guitar strung for the right-handed (his rationale was that he didn't own a guitar of his own). What he played sounded OK, but his fret work looked like a crab on steroids running up and down the guitar's neck...

[Motu]

Interestingly (or, perhaps not) left-handed people are less left-handed than right-handed people are right-handed. So it's easier for left-handed people to use either hand than for right-handed people to. I reckon "ambidextrous", which means roughly "equally right-handed" should really be "ambisinistrous" (or whatever the correct word would be).


I think you are right here :weird: I like your new word...ambisinistrous.The world is dominatly right handed and from a young age lefties can be bent subconsiously to righthanded tasks,and so we get the ''I do this with my right hand,and this with my left hand,so I'm ambidextrous'' I think they are sinistrous,but haven't come out of the closet yet.

Lefties are no longer ''forced'' to become right handed,I just missed out on that myself,our Headmaster in Primary School was a forced righthander and he wouldn't allow it in his school.They tended to be stutter's too,and I had a stutter at school,but don't seem to now,but after a lifetime of talking you tend to st,st,st,stay away from certain wh,wh,wh,words.

[Motu]

I once worked with a guy who was very left-handed and had taught himself to play a guitar strung for the right-handed (his rationale was that he didn't own a guitar of his own). What he played sounded OK, but his fret work looked like a crab on steroids running up and down the guitar's neck...

I saw what's her name on The Tem Show the other night playing a guitar upside down.When my daughters were having guitar lessons their teacher wanted the lefty to play a normal guitar upside down,because he said that then she could play any guitar she picked up,my wife agreed with him - but I was having none of it and strung an acoustic for her,then bought her a left Shoei Strat copy,the other daughter has an Arai Les Paul copy.I have a Vestra bass in left hand....I play a sax when my teeth are in good shape,the sax just seems a natural for lefthanded playing.

[Silage]

I saw what's her name on The Tem Show the other night playing a guitar upside down.When my daughters were having guitar lessons their teacher wanted the lefty to play a normal guitar upside down,because he said that then she could play any guitar she picked up,my wife agreed with him - but I was having none of it and strung an acoustic for her,then bought her a left Shoei Strat copy,the other daughter has an Arai Les Paul copy.I have a Vestra bass in left hand....I play a sax when my teeth are in good shape,the sax just seems a natural for lefthanded playing.

Interesting. I am strongly left handed but (probablly cos the only guitars around) play guitar right handed. It feels kinda natural that way and (as commented by Hitcher) it means the fret hand is the strong hand. Since taking up bass, I never even thought about looking at a left hander (would like a fretless tho - anyone?)

I think I need some more lefty smilies - :Punk: :Punk: :nono: :whistle:

[Waylander]

Right hand, left eye. Makes archery interesting...

[sels1]

Mouse on left side at work, mouse on right side at home. Write with right as taught when young but do lots with the left. Used to annoy bowlers playing indoor cricket by suddenly switching hands as they started their run in.
As a trade/tech type I have to use both hands for a lot of fiddly tasks, often easier to get left hand in to a place the right wont go very well.
Learning piano as a kid and playing a bit of guitar (and now bass - yes another one!) helps keep the co - ordination goodish

[Bonez]

The FN 7.62 SLR required some deft hand work when clearing jams but was otherwise OK for lefthanded use. The M16 was great for a burnt cheek.SLRs had lh kits available ya know. :weird:

[Hitcher]

SLRs had lh kits available ya know.
Really? You mean that instead of offering sarcasm, the weapons instructors could have offered a solution? The bastards!

[Motu]

Interesting. I am strongly left handed but (probablly cos the only guitars around) play guitar right handed. It feels kinda natural that way and (as commented by Hitcher) it means the fret hand is the strong hand. Since taking up bass, I never even thought about looking at a left hander (would like a fretless tho - anyone?)

I think I need some more lefty smilies - :Punk: :Punk: :nono: :whistle:

It's easy to be taught guitar from a righthander if you are lefty - my wife used to teach me bass lines by standing facing each other,I just mirrored her fret hand.I couldn't play the right hand bass,so worked some nights in a second job and got myself a lefthanded one - but yeah,the dominant hand....I have small hands and the bass needs strength and span on the fret board,the working hand would be better.Pull the frets out with pliers and bog it up like Jaco did....

[James Deuce]

Right-handed, left-eye dominant and left-footed. The viewfinders are always on the wrong side of cameras and, even worse, video cameras. My Grandpa encouraged me to shoot lefthanded when I was a kid so's I could aim with both eyes open. I've been doing that naturally since I was 13 or so. No problem unless using an automatic rifle that throws the hot cases out and to the rear. Ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch...

That's a bit spooky. Ditto.

[Skyryder]

Right handed in all............................. but politics.


Skyryder

[Aitch]

The FN 7.62 SLR required some deft hand work when clearing jams but was otherwise OK for lefthanded use. The M16 was great for a burnt cheek.

specially when shooting in the rain with a hood on....held the hot cases very nicely againt teh cheek!!!!!!

[Aitch]

Really? You mean that instead of offering sarcasm, the weapons instructors could have offered a solution? The bastards!
But the army could only ever afford about 3 kits!!!!!

[SPman]

Predominantly right handed but can use my left moderatel well for everything except writing (not much better with my right!) Shoot with my left eye, OK for everything except the Stirling SMG, Snow board goofy, but equally happy right footed or switch. Left handed for most sports - or right, doesnt seem to make much difference! :sherlock:

[Riff Raff]

The males in my family are left handed, females right handed. My dad was always going on about how left handers are superior, so I taught myself to write with my left hand as a kid in the event that I ever broke my right hand. Never needed that until just recently! I wouldn't say my writing with left hand is spectactular, but it is legible.

[James Deuce]

Predominantly right handed but can use my left moderatel well for everything except writing (not much better with my right!) Shoot with my left eye, OK for everything except the Stirling SMG, Snow board goofy, but equally happy right footed or switch. Left handed for most sports - or right, doesnt seem to make much difference! :sherlock:

My firing range instructor in Boys brigade was missing the last knuckle of his little finger on his left hand. The culprit? Stirling SMG!

[Beemer]

Did any of you left-handers know that today is actually International Left-Handers Day? I kid you not - http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3376243a10,00.html

Go celebrate!