I shall say that in this discussion about left-handers I could watch
unpretenciouslly in my computer screen I like very much what you wrote
below.
Ricardo.
Anthony Scott wrote:
>
> Ken Goodman said:
> Oi vey! Looking for links between left-handedness and a variety of real
> and imagined defects is the ultimate in confusing difference and
> deficiency. I'm trying to imagine how all those dyslexic left-handed
> baseball pitchers manage to control a baseball with such should I say-
> dexterity? Or is just another quirk of their sinister nature?
>
> My response: I think the right handed world is deficient in not
> accommodating to my difference, but with only 10% of homo sapiens having
> this particular difference, there maybe aren't enough of us and we are
> too thinly spread to be a profitable market!
>
> Switch-hitters: as a cricketer, I bat right handed and bowl left
> handed. This is fairly common amongst cricketing left handers. The
> left hand is the steering hand and the right hand is the power hand.
> Cricket bats are asymmetrical so the steering hand does the work of
> setting the angle at which bat strikes ball. I think it would be much
> harder to be a switch hitter at cricket than baseball. Also, I am
> recommended that if I ever take up golf, I should try playing with
> right-handed clubs before investing in very expensive left-handed ones,
> because the same body-part task assignment applies & could even be to my
> advantage.
>
> Body language: which leads me to wonder if some relevant research might
> be found concerned with body language and/or phys ed. I think it was
> Allan Lukes who was doing some research in Queensland on the body
> language 'performed' by young children engaged in learning. I wonder if
> their body images/learning styles had a handedness component.
>
> Also, what theories are there that inform sports coaches how to deal
> with issues of left handedness in 'asymmetrical' sports? and is e.g.
> "classical" dance handed and therefore dance education 'handed'?
> [Square dancing definitely is!]
>
> It occurs to me that we are emphasising "Western" cultures in this
> discussion. I believe the Mongolian language is written UP the page.
> Are Mongolians "ambi"? And what about some Pacific Islanders who are
> equally comfortable reading or writing in all four directions? How do
> left handers fare growing up in language communities where the proper
> beginning IS the (Western-perspective) 'back' of the book and where the
> writing on the page DOES go from right to left? Are right-handers
> disadvantaged in such language communities? As it happens some of these
> communities have extensive prohibitions on what one should and should
> not do with one's left hand...very sinister!
>
> Tony Scott
>
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