squiggles2
Dramacrat
This is my personal journey into trying to become, very late in life I might add, ambidextrous.
The reasons why I'm doing this:
1) My neck, back, spine is out of alignment
2) My posture sucks
3) I have a click in my left rotator cuff when I try to rotate or throw a ball that probably has to do with my previous injuries and my left shoulder blade
Benefits:
1) Alignment of neck, back and spine
2) People usually can't beat other people who are the other hand from you in sports and stuff
3) No left/right brain domination
4) Full range of motion with your body. No more one side dominating the other side
Conse @Quence s
1) You are going to feel like a child again learning something for the first time
2) You will look really silly for a bit, so maybe do it by yourself
3) I don't know, there always has to be a third in lists
What you will have to deal with
1) Lack of strength in your non-dominant arm
2) Lack of technique in your non-dominant arm
3) Lack of style in you non-dominant arm
4) Your dominant arm is going to want to try to take over constantly. Getting rid of this is a trick in and of itself.
I started with basketball. I was shooting basketball left handed yesterday. It was awful at first. Then it looked silly. But eventually it got better. No form. No strength. Like I'm a kid again.
Then, I tried throwing a baseball. Oh no, the clicking. Well, we'll just have to deal with that by practice. Want to "throw like a girl again"? Throw with your non-dominant arm. Can't aim up. Can't throw far. Let's get started.
Third and finally, billiards or pool. There have been so many times that I've played pool and didn't have the body angle to get to the shot that I wanted. So I invented things like the behind-the-back pool shot that works pretty well, but there is no control over the placement of where you left the cue ball.
Billiards is difficult because the right arm doesn't want to cooperate. It doesn't understand the bridge technique and the left arm doesn't know what it is doing when it's trying to complete a stroke on the ball.
Speaking of ambidextrous stroke and ball, I guess something else will also come in handy both ways now. Lol.
The reasons why I'm doing this:
1) My neck, back, spine is out of alignment
2) My posture sucks
3) I have a click in my left rotator cuff when I try to rotate or throw a ball that probably has to do with my previous injuries and my left shoulder blade
Benefits:
1) Alignment of neck, back and spine
2) People usually can't beat other people who are the other hand from you in sports and stuff
3) No left/right brain domination
4) Full range of motion with your body. No more one side dominating the other side
Conse @Quence s
1) You are going to feel like a child again learning something for the first time
2) You will look really silly for a bit, so maybe do it by yourself
3) I don't know, there always has to be a third in lists
What you will have to deal with
1) Lack of strength in your non-dominant arm
2) Lack of technique in your non-dominant arm
3) Lack of style in you non-dominant arm
4) Your dominant arm is going to want to try to take over constantly. Getting rid of this is a trick in and of itself.
I started with basketball. I was shooting basketball left handed yesterday. It was awful at first. Then it looked silly. But eventually it got better. No form. No strength. Like I'm a kid again.
Then, I tried throwing a baseball. Oh no, the clicking. Well, we'll just have to deal with that by practice. Want to "throw like a girl again"? Throw with your non-dominant arm. Can't aim up. Can't throw far. Let's get started.
Third and finally, billiards or pool. There have been so many times that I've played pool and didn't have the body angle to get to the shot that I wanted. So I invented things like the behind-the-back pool shot that works pretty well, but there is no control over the placement of where you left the cue ball.
Billiards is difficult because the right arm doesn't want to cooperate. It doesn't understand the bridge technique and the left arm doesn't know what it is doing when it's trying to complete a stroke on the ball.
Speaking of ambidextrous stroke and ball, I guess something else will also come in handy both ways now. Lol.
