How many of you can do this?

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How many of you can do multiple things with BOTH hands?

For example, I write left-handed, but when I play the Wii, I bowl using either hand, and I'm quite good at developing a deadly curve.

For my bicycles, I can use either brake, but if I need to slam on the brakes in a hurry, my right hand is my go-to hand.

When I used to play sports, I was learning how to switch hit in baseball.
 
I need more practice with my right hand on certain things, like texting with it.
 
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Sadly, I am predominantly right handed. I SO envy the 'leftist' and 'ambies' even more!

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Anything is possible if you put your mind to it and teach yourself how to do it. It might take a while, but after a while you'll start to see the results you want. I used to bowl on the Wii mainly right-handed, until I realized I could also do it left-handed.
 
You need to be able to do multiple things with both hands or you can't ride a motorcycle, period.

My instructor said that drummers tended to learn quickly because they're already used to having to do that (I'm not a drummer).
 
i'm ambidextrous. I write with right hand and sign with left hand. I play some sports with left hand... and some with right hand...
 
Jiro said:
i'm ambidextrous. I write with right hand and sign with left hand. I play some sports with left hand... and some with right hand...
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Same here. I write with right hand and sign left handed. Gives both of my arms work out, doesn't it?
 
I write and sign left-handed. I've never used my right arm for that purpose.
 
There are a lot of switch handed hitters in baseball. There have also been a switch handed pitcher. I think his name was Greg Harris.
 
Bottesini said:
Everything. I am completely ambidextrous.
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My younger sister was ambidextrous but her teachers in grade school would prevent her from using her left hand. I think that was a drag my sister was not allowed to be ambidextrous. I also heard of teachers trying to made a left hand child be right handed .
 
That was common when my mom grew up. If she was caught writing with her left the nuns would slap her hand with a ruler.
 
whatdidyousay! said:
My younger sister was ambidextrous but her teachers in grade school would prevent her from using her left hand. I think that was a drag my sister was not allowed to be ambidextrous. I also heard of teachers trying to made a left hand child be right handed .
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That's how I became ambidextrous. I am naturally left handed, but was forced to use my right hand.

Then my stepmother, who was a psychiatric social worker, came along, and changed me back to left handed because she thought it was bad for the brain and my development.

So as a consequence both are pretty equal.
 
Well, more than 50% of the world population is left-handed, so being a lefty is quite common, but doing things with both hands is very rare, and not many people can do it.
 
markengland29 said:
Well, more than 50% of the world population is left-handed, so being a lefty is quite common, but doing things with both hands is very rare, and not many people can do it.
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Left-handed people represent only 10% of the population, and it isn’t just their writing hand that sets them apart: lefties tend to be right-brain dominant, a trait that might make them more prone to fear, according to a study in the Journal of Traumatic Stress.
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Weird Fact About Lefties | Yahoo Health
 
Huh. I thought it was more than 50%. Guess I'm wrong. As for fear, I have none, as I once knocked out a guy holding a 12-inch knife trying to kill me, and he paid dearly for that (Knocked out= broken jaw).
 
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I'm a righty. The only thing I do left handed is swing a baseball bat. Learned that copying my dad when I was a kid. I golf right handed though. It's weird how I can swing a lefty bat but when I try swinging a golf club lefty I feel like I'll break my wrists..
 
Im right handed but I use my left for a lot of things. I write with right, drive with left ( think its because I drove a stick as my first car) but my first vehicle was a motorcycle and I drove it as a natural ( never was taught, just got on one and went...lol) but have about 30 years experience riding, I rode nothing but BMX bikes growing up everywhere I went. I can switch left to right with power tools and all... its odd but its natural for me.
 
When I was learning how to switch hit, the first time I swung the bat the other way, I nearly snapped my wrist, and the agony of the pain took a while to recover from, and after I did, I gradually taught myself how to do it.
 
I am a righty but I can do many thigns with ym left hand too. Probably the only thigns I cant do too well is writing but anything else I can do as good as with my right. I am a baseball pitcher and I can pitch with either hand.
 
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