OT - Improving Ambidextry
This weekend, I played a lot of baseball on the Wii, and a lot of golf on the Wii, and chipped around some with my sand wedge in the yard, and at some point, I realized that my right arm was killing me. It continues to hurt today. Anyhow, in an attempt to keep playing, since I was having a good deal of fun, I started to try and pitch left handed. It took me a good three or four seconds just to get my feet set properly to throw lefty. I might be a little TOO right hand dominant.
As such, I have decided to attempt to improve my ambidexterity a bit. I just put my mouse on the left and reversed the buttons, so I can mouse left handed. I keep reaching for it on the right first. Does anyone know of any other good tricks for improving ambidexterity a bit?
eat with your left hand and brush your teeth with your left hand. helps prevent alzheimers as well...
Do everything left-handed, especially eating. This is how a the head coach of CMU Bball told us to do it at a camp, and how Chris Kaman came to be ambidextrous. I can't stress the eating thing enough, or writing.
Work doesn't want me writing left handed. It's hard enough to read my writing normally. The eating I will try, though, definitely.
March 16th, 2010 at 12:18 AM ^
I tried a bunch of these today, and they were much harder than I thought they would be.
Ask Birkett how to speak out of both sides of your mouth.
You misspelled "ass"
...both sides of your Birkett.
So you don't end up like George or Jerry - only able to go left/right
(at work or I would embed a Seinfeld clip...)
12oz curls
You can tell us how it really happened.
Are you referring to boppin' the bishop with your south paw...
this wouldn't be a problem.
Well I broke my right arm a few years ago at the end of August, so of course I had a cast on for the first 4 or 5 weeks of football season and school. What else could I do but try and throw lefty while we tailgated? And as time went by I got better at throwing. I even got pretty good at writing lefty (can't anymore though). I can still throw lefty, not perfect but pretty good still. I guess if you want to get better with your left hand, just do whatever you want to get better at over and over.
Switch up Miss Michigan once in a while. It's kinda like a pleasant surprise, everything feels different.
Wii or a Wii Wii?
Ahhh Miss Michigan...close relative of Palmela Handerson, right?
of it
is largely a muscle memory activity. Way too many moving parts (arm, legs, shoulders, hips). I'd suggest starting with simple activities that only use small portion of your left side. Dribble a basketball, deal cards, drink water, brush your teeth (that one is surprisingly hard), toss a ball in the air and catch it, etc.
My friend wanted to learn how to write with his left hand. He started by coloring with his left hand then writing with a wide pencil.
Yea, this is what I've heard too. My brother is in medical school and he told me that surgeons buy coloring books and start coloring with their left hands to become more ambidextrous.
As a side note, did anyone else have Koreada (sp?) for Orgo 2? Whenever class was running out of time, he would start writing with both hands and it was impossible to keep up..what a guy
When he started adding Hydrogens to his large molecules it was insane
March 16th, 2010 at 10:59 AM ^
Sure did! Professor Koreeda would draw molecules with his right hand and reaction arrows with his left. I could never keep up but we were always so impressed we sometimes applauded. haha
Wii elbow sounds like a local news human interest story on pg B12. Any chance Drew Sharp gave you a call?
"I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous."
Also eating, shaving, brushing teeth, all help with that stuff.
Especially with young relatives. By limiting the distance you're throwing, you can forus on your mechanics rather than worrying about throwing far enough. After a few weeks I could throw a tight spiral lefty, and as my nephews got a little older, the throws became a little longer.
Also, young relatives will be more forgiving of errant throws than friends with a keen wit.
you have to learn to use both hands/arms equally or you will get hit
Play lacrosse!
Honestly, I have done the same thing. Over the last three years, I decided I wanted to be able to do things with your left arm. Ultimately, it comes down to just doing it consistently. They say it takes 10,000 hours to master something, but I assume you can get by with significantly less.
When it comes to throwing, my best advice would be to get in front of a full length mirror, and watch you throwing motion carefully with your dominant side. Then very slowly and definitively mimic the throwing motion on your weak side repetitively. Make a point of going past the point where your arm thinks you should stop. Thats the key, pushing past the range of motion that arm has developed. Have fun, it ends up being pretty cool being able to throw with both arms, even if one is a bit less powerful than the other.
March 15th, 2010 at 10:28 PM ^
I'd prefer you did things with your own left arm and left mine alone.
My dad and I played Ping Pong almost every night from the time I was 10. It took me until I was 14 before I finally beat him. I was so proud (and was really rubbing it in), until he announced that he would now start playing right-handed.
I had never noticed over all of those games that he had been playing with his left the whole time.
It took me about two more years to finally beat his right hand.
So I did the same thing with my wife. (took a couple months, and luckily she's a good sport)
My five year old daughter is a bit competitive however, If I ever tried that with her she'd probably shiv me.
March 16th, 2010 at 12:07 AM ^
I feel like I've seen that plot in a movie. Only it wasn't Ping Pong, it was something else. Hmmm....