Left, Right or Ambidextrous

[WeNeverTanked!]

Simple question.
What is your preferred side to use, or can you use both?

Personally I am ambidextrous and love being pretty much equal on both sides. When I learn something new I always learn to do it on both hands. Just an extra skill to have but chances are I'm good on both sides but most people with a favoured side are great on that one hand.

If your not ambidextrous, can you still do one or to things equally good on both sides?

 

[Eth]

Lefties do it better.

 

[Igloo]

I suppose I'd be ambidextrous. I'm naturally right handed (left footed), but I do some specific things only with my left hand. Things like playing tennis, golf, cricket, baseball, throwing, I do with my left. Things like picking things up, writing, other smaller movements, I do with my right hand.

So i'm not equally adept with both hands at everything, I just swap .

 

[JockStewart]

I think the method in which lefties do things to me seem more classier. The way they write, the way they play sport, the way they do most things. For example i love watching left handed batsmen or bowlers. Same as soccer players who kick with their left as with aussie rules players.

This reason alone when i was a kid i used to force myself to use my left. In soccer i found i could bend the ball better with my left than with my prefered right. I still force myself to kick with my left when i do have a chance.

 

[dales.girl38]

Right handed for writing/racquet sports etc., but can only kick a footy on my left foot.

 

[Gubbz]

Mainly right handed (writing, cricket stance, kicking etc) but play pool left handed and handball better with my left..

Also depending on blisters I switch from right to left when jacking so ambidextrous in that regard

 

[WeNeverTanked!]

I suppose I'd be ambidextrous. I'm naturally right handed (left footed), but I do some specific things only with my left hand. Things like playing tennis, golf, cricket, baseball, throwing, I do with my left. Things like picking things up, writing, other smaller movements, I do with my right hand.

So i'm not equally adept with both hands at everything, I just swap .

I'm pretty much the same as you,
I can do both hand balling and kicking equally well on both sides, I can play tennis with both hands but right is slightly better, I can write equally with both but favour the write hand because I always bump elbows when writing next to people since most are right handed. As for the smaller things like picking up/moving small items, I just do whatever feels most comfortable at the time. I have to improve on some skills: for example a person that is just right handed will be a neater writer than me since I am just good on both hands but not prefect on one.

 

[Tiff]

Do everything right handed but have trained myself to be ok at things with my left like throwing, batting, handballing and kicking the footy and particularly masturbating.

 

[Hatchy1992]

Mainly right when it comes to hand movements such as hand writing or raquet sports but when it comes to using my feet, I find I am more or less ambidextrous.

Comes from being forced to play on the left wing in soccer, I was forced to develop my left foot more than my right, over time using my left foot came naturally. It's really.

 

[DrVanNostrand]

I can't do anything with my left hand. ....anything.

 

[JockStewart]

Left whenn im feeling kinky

 

[Silent Alarm]

Right handed for almost everything, but I bat, golf, and (when I had to in Phys Ed...) play hockey with my left. The bloke's on my dad's side are all like it as well.

 

[worbod]

I'm a natural right hander, but for some reason I have always had a tendency to play guitar left handed. Perhaps that is similar to cricketers who can bat left handed and bowl right handed, or vice versa. In recent years I have done simple things left handedly, such as cleaning teeth, shaving, eating cereal and soup, using a screwdriver, and brushing my hair.

 

[Silent Alarm]

I think the method in which lefties do things to me seem more classier. The way they write, the way they play sport, the way they do most things. For example i love watching left handed batsmen or bowlers. Same as soccer players who kick with their left as with aussie rules players.

This reason alone when i was a kid i used to force myself to use my left. In soccer i found i could bend the ball better with my left than with my prefered right. I still force myself to kick with my left when i do have a chance.

Aye. I played a fair bit of soccer as a young kid and teenager, and I'd almost exclusively play as a winger. Loved going on the left because I was decent with it, but could always cross in the middle and use my right. Having a slightly awkward opposite foot (like most people?), I was able to use it to my advantage... when I wanted the ball to hang in the air a bit longer, I'd use my left, whereas my right foot would cross in a much faster, accurate ball.... never got any adulations from the strikers either. The plight of the winger, I guess. We're a hard done by bunch.

Also, any bloke that can't kick a footy on his left is a joke. Triple points if you can launch a torpy off of it as well.

 

[THRILLHO]

Not ambidextrous but I use different sides for different things. Write right-handed, but golf swing, racquet swing, batting, kicking the footy all left-sided.

Not sure how it happened but I bowl right-handed and throw left-handed. Can throw right-handed but can't bowl left-handed.

Being left-handed definitely has its advantages. I reckon I'm a 20% better squash player because of it. The amount of people who pay no attention to your racquet hand and just serve from the right service box and play the whole game on the left side is amazing.

 

[Rustin Cohle]

Ambidexterity sounds great in theory but it is very difficult to deal with at a young age.

 

[JockStewart]

Aye. I played a fair bit of soccer as a young kid and teenager, and I'd almost exclusively play as a winger. Loved going on the left because I was decent with it, but could always cross in the middle and use my right. Having a slightly awkward opposite foot (like most people?), I was able to use it to my advantage... when I wanted the ball to hang in the air a bit longer, I'd use my left, whereas my right foot would cross in a much faster, accurate ball.... never got any adulations from the strikers either. The plight of the winger, I guess. We're a hard done by bunch.

Also, any bloke that can't kick a footy on his left is a joke. Triple points if you can launch a torpy off of it as well.

Thats actually how i use to control the ball. Left for a nice timed lob and the right for a low more accurate pass. But i also use to cut the ball with my left for the through ball. I guess growing up i watched a lot of maradona and this was one of his more magical passes..the cut with the left foot and with a perfectly timed through ball.

When i used to go down the park and play kick to kick I always tried and kick snaps with my left all the time, terrible habit haha! I understand why Stevie J kicks for goal using the stop start snap method. Never tried a torp with the left..i doubt i could do it.

 

[woopedazz]

Lefties do it better.

Lefties have messed up brains.

 

[Silent Alarm]

Not ambidextrous but I use different sides for different things. Write right-handed, but golf swing, racquet swing, batting, kicking the footy all left-sided.

Not sure how it happened but I bowl right-handed and throw left-handed. Can throw right-handed but can't bowl left-handed.

It has to do with your eyes or something, the way you perceive things on certain angles. Weird how it applies to different degrees, though. I know someone who only bats with his left, but people like you, where it translates to ball sports as well.

 

[Roobs321]

Regarding hands, absolutely right. I use my right hand for most single-hand tasks, especially those involving dexterity. My attempts at throwing a ball or playing tennis with the left are downright ******ed.

Feetwise im okay. My left kicks are fine and even straighter, but just lack the power, distance and feel of the right. For that reason, more likely to use the left in soccer than AFL. It has been about 2 years since I last kicked a football of any kind though.

 

[Stratton_Gun]

Depends what I am doing

 

[Stratton_Gun]

But usually right.......
I do do some things with my left though such as handball (I kick on my right)

 

[Quivorir]

Right hand right footy. Use my right hand for everything...Even in Basketball and the like, I defend/catch/shoot/throw with the right hand, left hand hardly touches anything.

 

[WeNeverTanked!]

Right hand right footy. Use my right hand for everything...Even in Basketball and the like, I defend/catch/shoot/throw with the right hand, left hand hardly touches anything.

Do you see this as an advantage or disadvantage?

 

[Macca19]

Right handed writer but do most other things left handed/footed.