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Posted by kaioshin00 (Member # 3740) on :

I know that there are the people who are left handed, but are there people that are left footed? Do people drive with their left foot? Are there special cars where the gas pedal is on the left and the brakes are on the right? Are there any punters in football that kick with their left foot?

I can't really think of anything else you do with your foot. Besides walk.

Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :

There are definitely place kickers and punters that are left-footed. It can be quite an advantage.

Don't know about the rest.

Dagonee

Posted by Mike (Member # 55) on :

I drive with both feet.

Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :

There is a species of black cockatoos on Australia's Kangaroo Island that is entirely left-footed.

Apparently, there are some positions on a hockey team that are most suited toward a natural left-footer.

Obviously, in soccer there are lefties and righties.

Don't forget left-footed kick boxers.

And left-footed drummers.

You know, just as you naturally reach for a door with a certain hand, you start walking, climbing stairs, etc. with a certain foot. The most notable thing about left-footed people is they put on their left shoe first. Try it some day. It's really weird to try and put on the other shoe first. Or pant leg, or sock.

And dancing is harder because your natural tendency is to do it all backwards.

Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :

I'm left foot dominant, but predominantly right handed. I'm also left ear dominant and left eye dominant.

I found out about the left foot dominant bit in high school phys.ed. when I did my cartwheels left handed and my teacher told me I was doing them wrong for a right handed person. She tried forcing me to do them right-handed, but I just couldn't do it - I fell flat on my face. [Razz]

So I kept doing them left. I also played hockey better left handed and had really good left lay-ups. That's where it was the most noticeable.

When I took a gun course as an adult, I found out that I was also left eye dominant and left ear dominant - I shoot using my left eye for focus.

The theory is that I should have been left handed, but I saw everyone else doing everything with their right hand and I, ever the conformist (back then, anyway), I did what they did and became right handed.

Having said that, I've learned how to adapt. Some things I do left, other things right.

Now then, I have a friend, J, who is hilariously ambidextrous. She has to do math with her right hand. She has to do languages - English, German, Dutch - with her left. When she gives presentations, she has to have her left hand engaged doing something, like fiddling with a pen. So she's ambidextrous, but not in any normal kind of way.

I just find her entertaining. [Big Grin]

Posted by Mike (Member # 55) on :

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I found out about the left foot dominant bit in high school phys.ed. when I did my cartwheels left handed and my teacher told me I was doing them wrong for a right handed person.

Some people.

But really, you should be able to do cartwheels on either side. [Smile]

Posted by xnera (Member # 187) on :

I'm right-handed, but left-footed. I noticed it when I was bowling. I have to start my approach on my left foot, otherwise it feels off.

Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :

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And dancing is harder because your natural tendency is to do it all backwards.

This is so true, my daughter is a lefty, she's left handed and footed. In ballet, they strive so hard for symmetry on both sides, and the teachers tend to work the left side a alot, because people's left side is usually their "weaker" one. So, Natalie can do everything on that side with ease, but struggles with doing it the side that everyone else can do.