Left footed, Right handed... weird?

ando

Is there a name for being left footed and right handed? Is there anyone else in the world like this other than me?

Tar.Aldarion

My brother is.
Em it's not weird...

DonkeyRhubarb

Your just weird

rugbug86

i'm the same. found out while snowboarding!

Tar.Aldarion

rugbug86 wrote:

i'm the same. found out while snowboarding!

I mean wtf?
You didn't know before?

ando

yea, was thinking that meself. i found out at a really early age playing footy and writing in school

seamus

I'm sure it's a variant of ambidexterity. Do you find that you're *really* strongly right-handed (like I am for example), or do you only slightly tend to favour your right side?

Actually, the wiki has it under Cross-dominance. It's interesting enough. It's quite probable that you're left handed, and for some reason during your childhood, you were forced to use your right handed, making you stronger with your right hand (or vice-versa).

My girlfriend for example, is partially ambidextrous. When she started in school, she used to write with both hands (use the left hand for the left hand side of the page, and the right hand for the right hand side of the page) - it seemed natural to her. Of course, her teacher was an aging nun who still believed that left-handedness was evil, and would smack her hand with the cane whenever she wrote with the left.
End result: She can't write with her left hand, but can pretty much do anything else with either hand.

Endurance Man

Its called being ampidextris, i am the same. Write with my left hand, throw with my right, weird but they say these people are clever :v: .

Tar.Aldarion

Stupid people calling somebody clever isn't a great achievement.
meh some smilie.

NoDayBut2Day

What exactly do you mean by being "left-footed"?

Tar.Aldarion

NoDayBut2Day wrote:

What exactly do you mean by being "left-footed"?

It means you favour the left foot over the right....eh it's the same as being 'right-handed'
You are stronger with one than the other.

liamskater

im right handed left footed wow im special

Creamy Goodness

i'm odd too.

i'm left handed and right footed but for playing guitar i'm right handed. GO FREAKS!!!

StupidLikeAFox

rugbug86 wrote:

i'm the same. found out while snowboarding!

How do you write when snowboarding?

Creamy Goodness

probably means that's she's goofy stance (real name for it).

in board sports having the right foot at the back of the board is called regular and having you're left foot at the back of the board is called goofy.

i'm goofy stance aswell, may explain why i couldn't snowboard for my life.

Pythia

Cremo wrote:

i'm goofy stance aswell, may explain why i could snowboard for my life.

You had to snowboard for your life?

strassenwolf

ando wrote:

Is there a name for being left footed and right handed? Is there anyone else in the world like this other than me?

I don't know if there is a word for it, but I think I'm kind of like that. My right hand is no use to me at all, I'd naturally do everything with my left. Yet when I play football, it is much more natural to kick with my right foot. Over the years I've been able to learn to kick with my left, to the extent that it's not much worse than my right. (though I'm not really very good with either of them:o )

last summer, I had a bike crash and I did in my left arm. It was in plaster for over a month and I tried everything to learn to use my right arm. By the end of the month I was able to manouevre a mouse with my right hand to play a few very slow games of "Free Cell", but as for writing with it, no chance!

Beer is Life

Im the very same. I write with my right hand, but i eat like im left handed, prefer the left leg for kicking (in sports, not people ) etc etc. No biggie

Creamy Goodness

Pythia wrote:

You had to snowboard for your life?

sorry that's a typo.

mysterious

LOL i thought I notice every detail, i mean seriously why would care in wanting to label it,:rolleyes: I'm left handed doesnt mean i have to go to a left handed Mc donalds:rolleyes:

Dave!

My brother's the same... Freaks... just use your right side

toffo

I'm the same. The folks say when i was a kid my left hand was used for everything. All stopped when i started to go to school.

Siogfinsceal

im lik ethat too - i also found out while snow boarding - wierd

cournioni

I am right handed when I write, left handed when I play sport and left footed for sport.

jebuz

cool im special too, left handed and right footed. who wants to start travelling the country in a red wagon goin to freak shows!

Font22

i'm the same. play gaelic with my left foot but write beautifully with my right hand! not the only on ein my family either, my uncle is the same.

REDZ

I believe the term is Crossed lateral hemispheres

stevenmu

Like Seamus said, I think it's a form of ambi-dexterity. I used to be left-handed for writing and right handed for everything else so I started wondering if I was ambi-dextrous. I went to a summer camp thing years ago with a table-tennis table and decided to test it out, table-tennis being something I'd never really played before and needing a combination of strength (my right hand) and delicate control (my left). I started playing one game left handed, one game right, and ended up being just as good (or bad) with either hand. I've since been able to use both hands, or feet, equally well for most things. I never really managed to write perfectly with my right hand, but then again, I don't write very well with my left either.