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    Lefties of TFF UNITE!

    I expect that the number is 1, me. But we do have lurkers.

    Are any of you lurkers southpawers?
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    Re: Lefties of TFF UNITE!

    Quote Originally Posted by ch willie View Post
    I expect that the number is 1, me. But we do have lurkers.

    Are any of you lurkers southpawers?
    I shoot left with a hockey stick, swing left with a golf club and baseball bat. Otherwise right handed.

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    Re: Lefties of TFF UNITE!

    I'm actually a lefty, but I play guitar and shoot righty.

    I fish lefty, too!
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    I'm very ambidextrous but I learned to write righty. People have seen me working with tools, paint brushes etc and thought I was lefty. I was on a ladder hanging a banner with a power driver and started on the left side worked my way across and then switched to my right hand to keep going. The guy spotting me from below goes "Wait, you're right handed, too?"
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    I play hockey lefty, but that's it. I'm surprised how common that has become.

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    Re: Lefties of TFF UNITE!

    My son is a lefty too, but he had a teacher who forced him to use his right hand. We weren't really aware of it because he used his left at home. So now, he's lefty, but he writes right handed. Still plays soccer with his left foot. His kindergarten teacher was from "the old country" of Poland, and she believed lefties were, well, sinister. Yes, even now there are people who believe that bullshit.
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    Re: Lefties of TFF UNITE!

    Quote Originally Posted by ch willie View Post
    My son is a lefty too, but he had a teacher who forced him to use his right hand. We weren't really aware of it because he used his left at home. So now, he's lefty, but he writes right handed. Still plays soccer with his left foot. His kindergarten teacher was from "the old country" of Poland, and she believed lefties were, well, sinister. Yes, even now there are people who believe that bullshit.
    Sinister literally means left-handed, as opposed to dexterous. So if you are left-handed, you are indeed sinister.
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    in karate, the left hand represents wisdom of the dragon, the right hand the might of the tiger. In the dojo, when you step out into your ready stance, you cover your right fist with your left hand, representing using wisdom to keep your power in check.
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    I write left-handed. I also eat left-handed, but that may be because I learned how in Europe, where the fork is used in the left hand, not switched over, as they do it in the States. I pretty much do everything right-handed (throw, play guitar, etc.) but there are times when I'm ambidextrous (using a knife, for example).
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    Re: Lefties of TFF UNITE!

    Quote Originally Posted by Offshore Angler View Post
    Sinister literally means left-handed, as opposed to dexterous. So if you are left-handed, you are indeed sinister.
    Yes, I knew that....you can't be left hander without learning that somewhere along the way.
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    Comes from Italian/Latin: Sinistra. My first wife was Italian. I think she thought I was sinister.
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    Re: Lefties of TFF UNITE!

    I play left handed...and love it.

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    Re: Lefties of TFF UNITE!

    Hey, Grimmy.

    Good to see another lefty here.
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