Are you cross dominant ?

[bilgerat]

Not to be confused with ambidextrous. Cross dominance is very rare, roughly 1% of the population has it. It's when you favor certain limbs, eyes, ears etc depending on the task. Whereas most people are dominant right handed followed by left handed, cross dominance is a mixture of both.

I'm one of them. Here's some examples of how I handle certain tasks.

Writing - right
Fork - left
Knife - right
Spoon - left
Throw a ball - right
Throw a Frisbee- left
Kick a ball - left
Hand gun - right
Rifle/shotgun - left
Bow/arrow - left
Pool cue - left
Fishing rod - right hand for both casting & spinning
Reel - always left

Any other jumbled up folks out there ?

[DaveBrabec]

If you want to fish hard when you get old. Learn to cast and fish with left and right handed reels.

[RKW]

I am also cross dominant. Many of the examples you gave above would apply to me. As a ham radio operator, when working CW, my right hand works the key and my left writes down messages received.

[Quillback]

I pretty much do everything right handed, except I use my left hand to eat and write.

[DennisMH&F]

My father was cross dominant, he wrote right handed but anything he had to swing (hammer, baseball bat, ax, golf club, etc...) was naturally left handed. Having cross dominant vision is a blessing or a curse depending on your hobby. It is a real problem for wing shooting and guys have to learn to shoot with their dominant eye closed or wear patch over their eye to see the target properly. On the other hand, one of the greatest baseball hitters of all time, George Brett, was left handed but right eye dominant. It allowed him to have his dominant eye more directly facing the pitcher yet still have the dominant hand guiding the bat. Several star baseball players have had this same characteristic, read an article on it several years ago.

[BP in ME]

Not to be confused with ambidextrous. Cross dominance is very rare, roughly 1% of the population has it. It's when you favor certain limbs, eyes, ears etc depending on the task. Whereas most people are dominant right handed followed by left handed, cross dominance is a mixture of both.

Thanks for explaining that. I always thought it meant cross dressers who are into S&M.

[basscat21]

I am very ambidextrous, i can cast/ fish both hands. I shoot both right and left handed Recurve/long bows (no sights) instinctive. Taken deer with both. Play lacrosse with both hands, shoot/pass.
I am right handed, but I pitch left handed pretty much 90% of the time. If the angle makes more sense to pitch right I do.

[okhawg]

I mostly use my right, but do some eating with the left. However; in college on a whim I bat left-handed during intramural baseball practice and discovered I bat about 100 pts better left-handed and hit with more power and better pull. I wish I knew that about 13 years earlier.

[rboren]

Thanks for explaining that. I always thought it meant cross dressers who are into S&M.

[bilgerat]

Thanks for explaining that. I always thought it meant cross dressers who are into S&M.

Thanks for confirming my gut feeling as I posted this thread

[JR19]

I find this interesting because a lot of people do not know the difference between cross dominance and ambidextrous. When ask if I'm left or right handed and I respond I'm cross dominant I typically get a funny look followed buy the response of do you mean your ambidextrous. Then is when I explain that ambidextrous is when you can preform task equally with both hands. I have task I can do right handed that I struggle with left handed and vice versa. If I had to chose to identify as left or right handed I identify as right handed. Oddly though I am left eye dominate. Here is some example of things I do...

I throw a baseball, football and shoot a basket ball right handed.
I swing a baseball bat left handed.
This one puzzles me but I swing a golf club right handed but as stated above I swing a bat left handed.
I shoot a long gun left handed but I shot a pistol right handed.
I shoot archery right handed.
I use eating utensils right handed unless I'm using a knife then I cut right handed and eat left handed.
I cast a spinning and bait casting reel left handed
All my reels I crank right handed.

[MikeKz]

Writing - RH
Rod - RH
Reeling - LH
Kicking - LF

[ManxFishing]

Left handed but right eyed
So it's mostly left hand
Except, Batting, kicking a ball or shooting
Rifles are RH, Pistol is left hand right eye (cross body)
Fishing, I've always used RH reels. lol there were no LH 202's

[Hoot]

I can cast with both my right and left, paddle just as strong with the left as my right.

I consider myself Amphibiandexterous.

[218_fishing]

Left eye dominant and right handed.

So shooting and archery are all lefties for me.

[jetdude]

I am right handed with most things. Swing a golf club, baseball bat left handed. I never played organized little league ball so no one told me I was batting incorrectly. Later as a teenager when I decided to take up golf it was most natural to swing left handed also.

[KennyVexus]

I am so glad this thread didn't involve leather.

[mean_dean]

Don't get me started, all over the place. Shoot right but either eye can become dominant, so I have to smudge the left lense on my shooting glasses to stop it from taking over. I can also shoot left-handed. Cast with either hand but pitch or flip using the left hand. Switch hitter in base/softball. Golf right-handed, hockey right-handed but can use a lefty stick without much drop in performance (the backhand is bad lefty).

Years of drumming and forcing myself to work the left hand more than the right during exercises. I even reverse my drum set at times and play as a lefty to stay in practice.

[pabasshawk]

I am right all the time, it irritates a lot of people.

[tcesni]

Left handed
Right eye dominant
Cast left handed
Bowl left handed
Golf right handed
Bat right handed
Throw left handed
Shoot left handed (rather poorly with a shotgun)