Anyone left handed on TBD?

[BADOLBILZ]

2 hours ago, Johnny Hammersticks said:

Are you okay?

 

 

 

 

[ExiledInIllinois]

I have my take on why lefties were forced to write righty.

 

Think about it... The ball point pen wasn't invented to about the 1930s... Even then and after, fountain pens were still common.

 

Writing lefty with a fountain pen OR at least teaching a child to write with a fountain pen left handed would have created a terrible mess, smear...

 

Watch a left write and they kinda hook their hand over as they move left to right.

 

Is penmanship really a thing anymore?

 

Same with drafting... Line quality and inking a print. It's all done on computer/CAD now...

 

FWIW.  I don't think the old days were as nefarious as they are made out to be. More just economical and practical concerns. 

 

In the days when penmanship counted, probably easier just to teach the other hand.

 

Today... We have everything for both hands.  My older sister is a lefty... We ate as a big family at a large table. We parked her on so she would bang elbows with others. Same with her softball mitt... She just learned to play putting the mitt on backwards.

 

https://potus.com/presidential-facts/left-handed/

 

"Eight presidents have been left-handed.

James A. Garfield was the first left-handed president. He could write in two languages at the same time - Greek with the left hand and Latin with the right.

#President

20James A. Garfield

31Herbert Hoover

33Harry S. Truman

38Gerald R. Ford

40Ronald Reagan

41George H. W. Bush

42Bill Clinton

44Barack Obama"

 

Interesting it took all the way up to Garfield (1880s), then Hoover @ the advent of the ballpoint pen...

Edited April 8, 2023 by ExiledInIllinois

[Fleezoid]

"Lefty" is bad. How many criminals were called "Righty?"

[Beast]

When I feel like some strange I’m a lefty.

[SinceThe70s]

On 4/7/2023 at 4:13 PM, Johnny Hammersticks said:

My daughter is a total lefty.  My wife and I are completely right handed.  My son writes with his right hand, but plays all sports (hockey, lacrosse, swings a bat) left handed.  It’s weird how that all works out.

 

My oldest son is only left-handed when 'swinging' with two hands - baseball and hockey. For tennis, ping-pong, badminton etc. ..he's a righty.

[Johnny Hammersticks]

1 minute ago, SinceThe70s said:

 

My oldest son is only left-handed when 'swinging' with two hands - baseball and hockey. For tennis, ping-pong, badminton etc. ..he's a righty.

I feel like this is common.  I was always totally right handed for everything except lacrosse.  For some reason I was always pretty much ambidextrous with a lacrosse stick.  Even when I was very young.  I could swing a baseball bat pretty well left handed too.  Anything involving precise fine-motor I’m all right handed though…

[SinceThe70s]

1 hour ago, Johnny Hammersticks said:

I feel like this is common.  I was always totally right handed for everything except lacrosse.  For some reason I was always pretty much ambidextrous with a lacrosse stick.  Even when I was very young.  I could swing a baseball bat pretty well left handed too.  Anything involving precise fine-motor I’m all right handed though…

 

I'll have to ask him about lacrosse - my guess is he holds it righty because it's more of a throwing motion - although in fairness all we've ever done is have a lax catch in the backyard.

[T&C]

1 hour ago, SinceThe70s said:

 

My oldest son is only left-handed when 'swinging' with two hands - baseball and hockey. For tennis, ping-pong, badminton etc. ..he's a righty.

I will throw a frisbee with my left hand but golf, bat, hockey, etc are all left hand. I write lefty but use a fork, screwgun, drill etc. righty. When I eat it's a knife on the right and then switch over to a fork to actually eat whatever I've cut.

 

Never had a problem with much of anything.

[SinceThe70s]

23 minutes ago, T&C said:

I will throw a frisbee with my left hand but golf, bat, hockey, etc are all left hand. I write lefty but use a fork, screwgun, drill etc. righty. When I eat it's a knife on the right and then switch over to a fork to actually eat whatever I've cut.

 

Never had a problem with much of anything.

 

My quirk is that I do everything righty except kicking. Although if I do kick righty it's much less awkward than doing anything else I try lefty - with maybe one exception.  Back in the day I was a pretty good pool shot (grew up with a full size table in the basement) and my friends were at best average. Sometimes after a few beers I'd play lefty and I got good enough to beat them more often than not. 

[Augie]

5 minutes ago, SinceThe70s said:

 

My quirk is that I do everything righty except kicking. Although if I do kick righty it's much less awkward than doing anything else I try lefty - with maybe one exception.  Back in the day I was a pretty good pool shot (grew up with a full size table in the basement) and my friends were at best average. Sometimes after a few beers I'd play lefty and I got good enough to beat them more often than not. 

 

I grew up with a table in the basement, and have one now. I was better than most, but if I tried to go left handed today I might be up past my bedtime trying to finish a single rack. I’m afraid to even TRY! 

 

One of our friends growing up was forced to switch hands in middle school. He was one of the better athletes in our neighborhood, but he had nerve damage to his right hand resulting in partial use. (Horrible story about his brother returning from Vietnam, not being right and a kitchen knife.) Before too long he was beating people in tennis left handed. Most people know a guy like that….he’s just better than the average bear, and it’s quite clear to everyone. 

[frostbitmic]

I'm a lefty and do almost everything left handed. About the only things I do right handed is use scissors, play guitar and shoot.

 

On the greens, if my putting is bad, I'll take out my 2 iron and use it right handed.

 

My wife is a lefty too but our Daughters are both right handed... Lefties are superior.

[SinceThe70s]

23 minutes ago, Augie said:

 

I grew up with a table in the basement, and have one now. I was better than most, but if I tried to go left handed today I might be up past my bedtime trying to finish a single rack. I’m afraid to even TRY! 

 

One of our friends growing up was forced to switch hands in middle school. He was one of the better athletes in our neighborhood, but he had nerve damage to his right hand resulting in partial use. (Horrible story about his brother returning from Vietnam, not being right and a kitchen knife.) Before too long he was beating people in tennis left handed. Most people know a guy like that….he’s just better than the average bear, and it’s quite clear to everyone. 

 

I played recently on the table I grew up with and the results where underwhelming (playing righty). 

 

Great/horrible story about your friend. I've always been fascinated with trying to do things 'wrong-handed'. Bored in the backyard in the past year or so me and my two boys were trying to throw a football lefty. Very awkward but we managed - forced us to think about technique instead of just chucking. 

 

 

[Buffalo716]

So I throw a football left handed … throw a baseball and bat left handed 
 

play hockey left handed 

 

bowl lefty

 

but write right handed 

 

throw a frisbee right handed 

 

arm wrestle right handed 

 

open jars right handed 

Edited April 9, 2023 by Buffalo716

[T&C]

We're a ***** up bunch...

[Augie]

5 minutes ago, SinceThe70s said:

 

I played recently on the table I grew up with and the results where underwhelming (playing righty). 

 

Great/horrible story about your friend. I've always been fascinated with trying to do things 'wrong-handed'. Bored in the backyard in the past year or so me and my two boys were trying to throw a football lefty. Very awkward but we managed - forced us to think about technique instead of just chucking. 

 

 

 

Our son was a very good soccer player. He could have played in college, and he “got it” the first time on the field in  a 3 on 3 as a little kid.  He would just dribble around the kids picking flowers. He knew why he was there, and it was a mission, regardless of pretty cloud formations! 

 

Eventually in Rec league games (school and travel team, be sure you win first) we told him it only counted if he scored with his head or his left foot. It REALLY helped develop his skill set. 

[SinceThe70s]

18 minutes ago, Augie said:

 

Our son was a very good soccer player. He could have played in college, and he “got it” the first time on the field in  a 3 on 3 as a little kid.  He would just dribble around the kids picking flowers. He knew why he was there, and it was a mission, regardless of pretty cloud formations! 

 

Eventually in Rec league games (school and travel team, be sure you win first) we told him it only counted if he scored with his head or his left foot. It REALLY helped develop his skill set. 

 

That's awesome.  In my case it was more of a giant middle finger to my friends than it was improving my skill set.

 

I remember a kid my son played with that "got it" too. He was head and shoulders above every other kid on the soccer field.  I remember being amazed watching him juke past everyone like he'd been doing it for years. Coaches would put the kid back on D to take it easy on the other team and he'd take it as an opportunity to take it end to end. 

 

 

[Augie]

3 minutes ago, SinceThe70s said:

 

That's awesome.  In my case it was more of a giant middle finger to my friends than it was improving my skill set.

 

I remember a kid my son played with that "got it" too. He was head and shoulders above every other kid on the soccer field.  I remember being amazed watching him juke past everyone like he'd been doing it for years. Coaches would put the kid back on D to take it easy on the other team and he'd take it as an opportunity to take it end to end. 

 

 

 

Oh, how I miss those years!

 

 It was the same thing in basketball, if you can’t go left, you can’t go anywhere because they will just take going right away. It’s good for sports, for sure, but it also teaches you work ethic. Nope, it ain’t easy. THAT is why you are working at it. 

[ExiledInIllinois]

3 hours ago, T&C said:

We're a ***** up bunch...

Yeah... But how many of you wipe your ass left?

[WhoTom]

15 hours ago, Buffalo716 said:

blow lefty

 

??

 

[Buffalo716]

3 hours ago, WhoTom said:

 

??

 

I was using my microphone to speak and I thought I said bowl lefty and I guess it picked it up as something else lol