[quote]Kerley wrote:
i cant fap with my left…it feels weird.[/quote]
That’s the whole point, it’s like someone else is getting you off. This is in the fap handbook, page thirty, section ten, paragraph six.
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no it just feels shit.[/quote]
Its like when you got a handy in high school and the girls didn’t know wtf they were doing. Its very uncordinated and there is no rythym, but it gets the job done.
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Theres a pitcher in the yankees system who switch pitches. There are some specific rules as to how and when he can switch with a particular batter. He has a special glove made in japan that can go on either hand.[/quote]
This guy.[/quote]
Sweet vid. They must have instituted the special rules right after. I particularly like how the batter who kept switching sides was 0 for 3 on the night. 0 for 4 with a strikeout after all that nonsense.
With this guy, vendidi or whatever his name is, his dad played D1 ball, saw his kid had potential, played catch with him everyday in a pitching cage in the backyard. He wasn’t a crazy sports dad he just had him throw a certain number of pitches with his right, and then use a kiddie football with his left the same number of times until he got good enough to switch to a baseball. Do this for 18 years and you’ll be ambidextrous.
He throws a fastball like high 80s maybe low 90s with his right and a little slower with his left. He also has a standard delivery with the right and a pronounced sidearm with the left.
Im not sure but I think hes been called up. He had some pretty good movement on those pitches in the vid.
[quote]debraD wrote:
I can do hand stuff with my feet, does that count?
Not fully ambidextrous but close. I can write with both hands but it’s a bit more effort with my left hand.[/quote]
What kind of hand stuff are we talkin here? Eating with chopsticks, or giving high fives? (I can do the latter, would love to call myself ambidextrous!)[/quote]
I can write, operate remote controls, open doorknobs, pick stuff off the floor.[/quote]
Do you also wear golden bracelets you use to deflect bullets?[/quote]
My Family did not like this, particularly my care givers, and I went through some odd ‘correcting’ of this from before I can remember.
That is according to legend, 'cause my grandma/mom/others tried to ‘correct’ my left handedness, since I was like 1 yo, or before…or so a couple Aunts/Uncles/Brother say…
When I was around 4, I guess I already knew subliminally ( from xp when I was even younger ), that I ‘needed to correct’, my left handed nature, and made a great effort to from then on, which is about when my memories begin.
I am now, technically proficient with both hands though I have fooled most people into thinking I am right handed, even other Family I met for the first time when I was as young as 6.
I still use my right hand more than my left, unless I am VERY close to a person, then I go left, which is my nature…
I can do just about anything with both my right and my left hands. When I fight, I switch it up a lot. I can fight orthodox or southpaw. Same with wrestling. I’ve just always been comfortable that way.
When I was little whatever side the writing utensil was on is the side I’d use. As I got older I gravitated towards the right. I’m right dominant but I can do most things pretty well with my left. I can beat all of my friends at horse using just my left against their dominant hands, but that’s not saying much 'cause I played ball and they all suck. If I’ve been using the left consistently I can hit a good 7 out of 10 from NBA 3. If I haven’t used it in awhile it’s closer to 3 of 10.
I am pretty close to ambidextrous kicking though. I was naturally a right footed kicker, but playing soccer through High School I was always on the left side of the field. By the end of my soccer days, I was about as good with either foot, I still naturally tend to my right though.
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Oh, and I’m a pretty decent left handed bowler. Me and my friends used to to a 12-3AM bowling session once a week. It was 10 bucks for all the games you could bowl. After about the 2 hour mark, you right arm starts to go numb, so we’d switch to left handed games. I got up to bowling in the 130-140 area left handed (vs. 170-180 right handed)
[quote]Petermus wrote:
Ive read there are no true ambidextrous people but only people (who are indifferent as to which hand they use) who were left handed but taught throughout childhood to use their right hand (left hand is the ass wiping hand after all!) [/quote]
Jack Kirby was ambidextrous, he would take the pencil and draw on one side not miss a beat and put the pencil in the other to finish the other side of the drawing
[quote]Petermus wrote:
Ive read there are no true ambidextrous people but only people (who are indifferent as to which hand they use) who were left handed but taught throughout childhood to use their right hand (left hand is the ass wiping hand after all!) [/quote]
Jack Kirby was ambidextrous, he would take the pencil and draw on one side not miss a beat and put the pencil in the other to finish the other side of the drawing
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You think that’s folklore or true? If true that is really impressive.
[quote]Petermus wrote:
Ive read there are no true ambidextrous people but only people (who are indifferent as to which hand they use) who were left handed but taught throughout childhood to use their right hand (left hand is the ass wiping hand after all!) [/quote]
I don’t know where you read this, but I am right-handed. I have taught myself to throw, write and hit a baseball left-handed. I am actually a better batter left-handed, even if it still feels awkward to me. I also use my computer mouse almost exclusively with my left hand. And yes, I can fap with either hand. You just have to stress using both hands. It’s pretty much just focus and practice.
[quote]Petermus wrote:
Ive read there are no true ambidextrous people but only people (who are indifferent as to which hand they use) who were left handed but taught throughout childhood to use their right hand (left hand is the ass wiping hand after all!) [/quote]
I don’t know where you read this, but I am right-handed. I have taught myself to throw, write and hit a baseball left-handed. I am actually a better batter left-handed, even if it still feels awkward to me. I also use my computer mouse almost exclusively with my left hand. And yes, I can fap with either hand. You just have to stress using both hands. It’s pretty much just focus and practice.
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That’s a good point about a difference between ability and feel. You may be able to gain the ability without actually loosing the awkwardness.
[quote]Petermus wrote:
Ive read there are no true ambidextrous people but only people (who are indifferent as to which hand they use) who were left handed but taught throughout childhood to use their right hand (left hand is the ass wiping hand after all!) [/quote]
I don’t know where you read this, but I am right-handed. I have taught myself to throw, write and hit a baseball left-handed. I am actually a better batter left-handed, even if it still feels awkward to me. I also use my computer mouse almost exclusively with my left hand. And yes, I can fap with either hand. You just have to stress using both hands. It’s pretty much just focus and practice.
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That’s a good point about a difference between ability and feel. You may be able to gain the ability without actually loosing the awkwardness.[/quote]
I think it’s just a matter of getting in equal time with either hand. For example, the mouse feels just as natural to me in my left hand as in my right at this point, because for 5 days out of the week, I’m using my left hand.
On another note, my left arm is actually stronger than my right (higher one arm curl max) but I’m not sure why because I’m right-handed and train them equally. I still pretty much reach for everything with my right hand first.
[quote]Petermus wrote:
Ive read there are no true ambidextrous people but only people (who are indifferent as to which hand they use) who were left handed but taught throughout childhood to use their right hand (left hand is the ass wiping hand after all!) [/quote]
I don’t know where you read this, but I am right-handed. I have taught myself to throw, write and hit a baseball left-handed. I am actually a better batter left-handed, even if it still feels awkward to me. I also use my computer mouse almost exclusively with my left hand. And yes, I can fap with either hand. You just have to stress using both hands. It’s pretty much just focus and practice.
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That’s a good point about a difference between ability and feel. You may be able to gain the ability without actually loosing the awkwardness.[/quote]
I think it’s just a matter of getting in equal time with either hand. For example, the mouse feels just as natural to me in my left hand as in my right at this point, because for 5 days out of the week, I’m using my left hand.
On another note, my left arm is actually stronger than my right (higher one arm curl max) but I’m not sure why because I’m right-handed and train them equally. I still pretty much reach for everything with my right hand first.
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Lol its cause of all the repetitive endurance training you’ve done with your right.
Correct me if I’m wrong(its been a while)but I believe the only true Ambidextrous people are born that way… and its fairly rare. Then there are people that use both hand for different things which is the most common and finally people that can only use 1 hand.
Now plenty of people teach themselves to use both hands… in most sports you pretty much have to be able too. I am proficient with either hand in lacrosse for instance… but that doesn’t mean you’re ambidextrous it has a different name.
If I remember correctly they all have different names etc…
[quote]Amiright wrote:
Correct me if I’m wrong(its been a while)but I believe the only true Ambidextrous people are born that way… and its fairly rare. Then there are people that use both hand for different things which is the most common and finally people that can only use 1 hand.
Now plenty of people teach themselves to use both hands… in most sports you pretty much have to be able too. I am proficient with either hand in lacrosse for instance… but that doesn’t mean you’re ambidextrous it has a different name.
If I remember correctly they all have different names etc…
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There are probably some specialized medical terms but ambi - means both, and dextrous - skillful in physical movements esp. the hands.
so the term seems to encompass even those who teach themselves.
and if you read earlier in the thread about the baseball player who is definitely not just proficient but expert with both hands in pitching. He was the learned variety.
I see what you are saying though. Your just saying that their are terms for the different way the phenomenon exhibits.
Im just being over analytical cause its 3am and I need to go to bed.
[quote]Amiright wrote:
Correct me if I’m wrong(its been a while)but I believe the only true Ambidextrous people are born that way… and its fairly rare. Then there are people that use both hand for different things which is the most common and finally people that can only use 1 hand.
Now plenty of people teach themselves to use both hands… in most sports you pretty much have to be able too. I am proficient with either hand in lacrosse for instance… but that doesn’t mean you’re ambidextrous it has a different name.
If I remember correctly they all have different names etc…
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Who is to say that to be truly ambidextrous you have to be born that way? Unless someone conducted a long-term study of children from birth where they conduct periodic brain scans to watch the brain development and record their abilities to use both hands, there is no way to say for sure. Simply looking at adult brain scans of left-handed, right-handed and ambidextrous people won’t tell the complete story, because we know that people who lose their dominant hand in an accident have shown an ability to alter their brain physiology as they develop the skills of the remaining hand.
I believe too much in the adaptability of the human brain to subscribe to the “born that way” theory. I’m not dismissing that people can be pre-disposed to becoming ambidextrous more easily than others, however.
I remember reading somewhere Randy Macho Man Savage was a pitching prospect but fucked up his good arm so he decide to teach himself to pitch with the other and did pretty well. Not a pro but he did manage to do it.
Another story was about how Greg LLoyd(Ret.Pittsburgh Steeler LB) used to warm up before games. According to fans he would throw balls to one of the trainers across the endzone, after a while he would switch hands and continue throwing frozen ropes across the endzone. Supreme Athletes find away I guess.
Most hockey players in the US shoot right. Most hockey players in Canada shoot left. Figure that one out.
Hockey? That still a sport in America? Just messing with you, there is only FOOTBALL in Texas. From what I have been told there is some kind of baseball team in Houston.
[quote]Petermus wrote:
Ive read there are no true ambidextrous people but only people (who are indifferent as to which hand they use) who were left handed but taught throughout childhood to use their right hand (left hand is the ass wiping hand after all!) [/quote]
Jack Kirby was ambidextrous, he would take the pencil and draw on one side not miss a beat and put the pencil in the other to finish the other side of the drawing
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You think that’s folklore or true? If true that is really impressive.[/quote]
I believe it because my Grandfather could do this. He also could write in different languages( he knew 5) with both hands simultaneously and could write backward just as fast as forward and I used to hold my birthday cards and stuff up to a mirror to read them.
Just messing with you, there is only FOOTBALL in Texas. From what I have been told there is some kind of baseball team in Houston.