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When fencing, left-handed people have the significant advantage of being able to dramatically switch their rapier from their right hand to their left hand, mid-combat, and announce that they are not really right-handed.
I did that in badminton. I’m the beginning I swapped hands when they weren’t looking. Once they caught on, of randomly swap whenever.
Inconceivable!
No-one hates fencing a lefty quite like another lefty.
Due to it being a right handed world, most lefties are much better at using their non dominant hand for things. I can operate power tools, golf putt, easily drive a stick shift in any country, and do all sorts of things with my dominant or non dominant hand. Sometimes if I’m doing something that’s making my hand or arm tired, I’ll just do it with the other. Sure, it’s not as good as using my left hand, but it still gets the job done.
Bonus points when playing pickleball or table tennis or tennis or whatever and I switch hands to reach and hit an otherwise out of reach ball in just the nick of time.
Yeah lefties basically have to be ambidextrous in today’s world
Notable advantage in a lot of beginner and intermediate level sports. By the time you get beyond that everyone knows how to compensate for left handedness.
Easier for you to assault a castle with spiral staircases while using a sword.
I’m told that Ferniehurst Castle on the border between Scotland and England was built with the stairs spiralling in the opposite direction because so many of the clan that built it were left-handed.
May also have been a subtle way to help protect in case the castle was stormed. I’ve certainly heard of castles where the steps were sometimes irregular heights - those who lived there would be used to it, but invaders would not and would find it harder to move effectively. A differently spiralling stair might have the same effect.
Seems that doesn’t work quite as well in tennis, where pretty much all the time 15 to 25% of the top 100 ranked players are left handed.
Either everyone knows how to compensate for a southpaw or everyone is a southpaw. Fencing is a lefty’s game.
A boxing coach once told me it’s harder to fight lefties because they go against what you’ve trained for.
It’s true of all combat sports, and, to some degree, any other sport in which you go face to face with your opponent.
And although it might be true that at the very very top levels people both learn to be more ambidextrous (so that there’s less of a mismatch between sides whether right or left handed) and are more experienced/skilled at dealing with left handed opponents, the early years of learning the sport will weed out fewer left handed people so that the top levels have more left handed people.
I once read that the more competitive a society is, the now left-handed people it will have. I never did more research to verify, but makes some kinda sense
Only left-handed people are in their right mind
God this is so good
I can’t think of any time I’ve felt lile being left-handed is an advantage.
Yes but good luck with scissors 😭😭😭 I fucking hate that thing
After 30+ years, I finally bought myself a nice pair of left handed scissors.
If I’m being honest, I’m so used to right handed ones, that the lefty ones feel wrong anyway.
Fortunately, me and a pal were the reason our kindergarden bought some lefty scissors.
it’s actually a good idea. I once saw a store with many “for left handed” products. But most of them aren’t really necessary because you just get used to the regular ones.
Damm it now I realize why I feel too much uncomfortable with scizzor
it’s soooo annoying!
You are born an outsider. This allows you to understand the world more clearly at a younger age. Not sure what advantages this may give but it’s reality.
It can be beneficial for a lot of sports
I fence, and lefties have a significant advantage, just because we’re used to fencing opposite-handed opponents.
Training people in surgical techniques is way easier in lefties because most have been imitating right handed people so have some degree of ambidexterity. When you tell a right handed person to do precision movements with their left hand it fucks them up for a while.
in fencing left handed people have a slight advantage, since left handed people are used to fighting right handed people but righties aren’t used to fencing lefties. other than that it’s probably worse since it looks like writing left handed is more annoying
I don’t know, but I assume it comes with some benefits. If not, why make the pact with the devil in the first place?
We don’t have to switch hands with our forks in order to pick up a knife.
Why would you need to switch hands?
Forks are on the left for a reason.
My gf thinks lefties are hot. I don’t understand but I got an advantage there 🤷♂️
Good thing you’re lefthanded!
