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When teaching kids basic canoeing, I used to ask if there were any left handers in the group, and take them off with a separate instructor to teach them how to use a paddle.
An experienced BCU instructor told me he had never seen this done before, normally they just taught the right handers and told the left handers to ‘do the opposite’.
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I’m part of the awkward squad.
While I write with my left hand, I do many / most other things (hold a cricket bat, rifle, scissors, snooker cue) with my right dominant.
I’ll gloss over how I ended up like this, but if there’s a “way” to paddle I suspect I would instinctively do it right-handed.
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Greetings fellow sinistrals. I hold scissors in my right hand and move the object to be cut. No idea why, everything else, spoons, writing etc. Left handed. Good job the antiwoke hysterics don’t know we live amongst them.
Ah, good point, knife and fork → right-handed, knife or spoon its own → left-handed.
Yeah normie weirdos, we walk among you, and we’ve got scissors.
Oddly, I do everything right handed except shoot a gun, or wank.*
*I always lie on my left hand until it goes numb. That way it feels like somebody else is doing it.
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There is a thought that people should bat the opposite way round to what you would expect, so that the top hand is the strongest.
That of course presumes that you don’t want your batting style to be “having a moo at everything.”
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There are a few things - a table tennis bat for instance - that I don’t really care which way I do it. I can vouch for swapping hands genuinely messing with people’s heads.
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I can drink with either hand. Not necessarily with a glass in each paw.
But is the control hand always the normal dominant one?
The control hand grip doesn’t move and is normally the dominant hand.
No doubt there are weirdos out there though.
TBH it is probably lefties who mix and match their dominant hand more than righties, see posts above!
When I broke my left arm a few years ago I was amazed how hard it was to do right handed stuff. “How do you people manage to do so much writing and stuff?”
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I had to learn to write left-handed when I broke my right wrist. I never got better than ‘just about legible’. I did say I’d carry on practising just in case I ever needed it again. I haven’t, of course (carried on practising or needed it).
Me neither. My signature was that of an imposter.
I never got better than that with my right hand.
Nor me, I was a total loss to Medicine, could have gone far.
And what, pray, do you do when you’re doing both at the same time?
I’m a left hand shot in hockey, right handed for everything else
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Sent to, well, yeah, quite a lot of people.
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