Ambidextrous Sports
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Right hand - knife, opponent's heart on the left. That's how the guy was killed.
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It is a good thing that you do not know. It is a sign of civilization. Back in the days, everybody knew.
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SystemicAnomaly
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While it is not actually ambidextrous, I will suggest that tennis, as it is played by most people, is already bi-lanced or bilateral. The "off" or non-racket arm plays a very important part in tennis -- assuming a number of different roles.
Many players have a problem with their service because of an erratic ball toss with their least favorite arm. Spastic arm = spastic toss = not ideal.
Many players use both arms for their 2h Bh. For the way that many ppl execute this stroke, the non-dominant arm will often take on a dominant role.
The non-dom arm is used to support the weight of the racket (for the ready position and the unit turn) allowing the "racket" hand/arm to stay relaxed. It should aid in executing the unit turn as well.
Extending the tossing hand/arm upward in the service motion yields a better (trophy) shoulder tilt. The extended hand also provides an improved reference for the position of the tossed ball (wrt the body)... it helps to measure.
The non-racket stretched across the body (approx parallel to the baseline) can also provide a spatial reference to "measure" the body position relative to the trajectory of the incoming ball. That arm across the body also promotes a fuller coiling of the body (after the unit turn).
With the "other" arm extended for the serve and for the Fh, it it relatively important to properly time its movement down or into the body. By pulling the arm in at the proper time, we can get the torso to unveiling a bit quicker or more vigorously -- the way an ice pulls her arms in to increase her RPMs.
The alternate arm can also be employed on the 1h Bh as a counterbalance or to hold the rear shoulder back or prevent the over-rotation (uncoiling) of the torso.
Many players have a problem with their service because of an erratic ball toss with their least favorite arm. Spastic arm = spastic toss = not ideal.
Many players use both arms for their 2h Bh. For the way that many ppl execute this stroke, the non-dominant arm will often take on a dominant role.
The non-dom arm is used to support the weight of the racket (for the ready position and the unit turn) allowing the "racket" hand/arm to stay relaxed. It should aid in executing the unit turn as well.
Extending the tossing hand/arm upward in the service motion yields a better (trophy) shoulder tilt. The extended hand also provides an improved reference for the position of the tossed ball (wrt the body)... it helps to measure.
The non-racket stretched across the body (approx parallel to the baseline) can also provide a spatial reference to "measure" the body position relative to the trajectory of the incoming ball. That arm across the body also promotes a fuller coiling of the body (after the unit turn).
With the "other" arm extended for the serve and for the Fh, it it relatively important to properly time its movement down or into the body. By pulling the arm in at the proper time, we can get the torso to unveiling a bit quicker or more vigorously -- the way an ice pulls her arms in to increase her RPMs.
The alternate arm can also be employed on the 1h Bh as a counterbalance or to hold the rear shoulder back or prevent the over-rotation (uncoiling) of the torso.
SystemicAnomaly
Bionic Poster
Ambidextrous tennis can also be realized by using 2 rackets, 1 in each hand, at the same time. I've done this with table tennis for a long time now. I also developed my right arm strokes (and serve) for tennis and badminton the past 2 decades. So now I can play those sports with 2 rackets at a time as well. Serving becomes a bit more of a challenge but that can be overcome as well.
I've also played volleyball with either hand for more than 25 yrs now.
I've also played volleyball with either hand for more than 25 yrs now.
Oh good Lord. We are so pacifistic, so pacifistic that we don't know anything anymore. Who the hell fences with their left hand?
Compare 5:57 to 6:21
If you don't know where to put your hand on your heart when you do the Pledge of Allegiance, buy a Jack Swagger T-shirt.
https://www.dailytus.com/men-s-jack-swagger-we-the-people-tshirt-shirt-p-232486.html
This love song has more insight into war than an Olympic martial art. The Olympics give war a bad name.
You're missing the key ingredient. Yes, the free hand can have a supporting role. The key part to ambidexterity is the reversing of the whole body. It's not switching hands, it's switching the whole body.
https://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/index.php?threads/ambidextrous-sports.615160/post-12817546
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SystemicAnomaly
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Sure. Was making an alternate point. However, my subsequent post was a variation on your theme.
Exactly. It will create a different sport. What's wrong with that? You lose something, but you gain something.
Triathlon. They don't run the fastest, swim the fastest, bike the fastest. But they are good overall.
It's a concept dating back to Greek antiquity. There is the pentathlon (5 events), the forerunner of the modern decathlon.
There's pankration (UFC/MMA), even though they already have these separate disciplines and events:
boxing
kickboxing
wrestling
submission wrestling
This is an ancient Greek idea. I looked it up in Wikipedia. It's so ancient that its origin is in Mythology, not in any man in History. I'm not smart enough to think of it myself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentathlon#Ancient_pentathlon
Also back in the Greek days, a shield is just as a weapon as a sword, if you watched "Troy".
And a tennis racket is a sword and a shield! Looking at it from orthogonal planes.
Why do Fiddler Crabs make the rules? Fiddler Crabs are the exception. Symmetric crabs are the rule.
Let's compare that to body building (I know it's not a fair comparison), but you can see the difference as night and day in symmetry.
Frank Zane, 185 lbs.
https://cyberflexing.com/home/cyberflexing-com-star-profile-frank-zane-the-master-of-aesthetics/
Frank Zane, 185 lbs.
https://cyberflexing.com/home/cyberflexing-com-star-profile-frank-zane-the-master-of-aesthetics/
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By the way, that is a photograph. Photographs are 2 dimensional. Volume is cubic as surface is squared, as X and Y are to 1. (I have a geometry background.)
It is even MORE distorted in 3D space.
To put it bluntly, one looks like a statue, the other looks like a circus freak.
It is even MORE distorted in 3D space.
To put it bluntly, one looks like a statue, the other looks like a circus freak.
https://www.armystudyguide.com/cont...hand_grenades/throwing-of-hand-grenades.shtml
You throw grenades: standing, seated, and laying down. Tallying up the score is called the body count.
Blindfolded too when you fight at night, in the dark (darkness is half the time),
or in a fog, or in the smoke, or in the jungle where leaves and trees conceal visibility, or in the rain, or in a dust storm, or in the snow.
Submarines when they first came on the scene are invisible to ships.
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It's not an obsession. It is an insight that is as obvious as day, we are bi-laterally symmetric (except for the position of the heart). Everybody else is on the page. Why isn't tennis?
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I just invented something. Like half time in American football. The first half right hand, the second half left hand.
user92626
G.O.A.T.
HAHAHAHAHHAHA HAHAHHA...HAHAHA
I don't get it. why the right guy can't stick the left guy?
why ...why?Recently in a Meetup . . .
I got the choreography mixed up, people came late, and I had to go to the bathroom. I have the best player and the worst player waiting their turn to play. I told the best player to play with his left hand to equalize with the worst player. Smart idea, as all my ideas are. But it didn't work out in practice (as most of my ideas are)
Flashback . . .
Last time the guy got me to play his wackiest rules:
serve must be underhand, cross court (I specified cross court)
3 hits to start scoring
on a volley, if you don't touch the ball - 3 points
if you can't hit the ball over the net - 2 points
all others - 1 point
So I stipulated my wacky rule, left hand vs left hand. I beat him 21-8. Interpolating from the score, that probably lasted 15 minutes (I timed the average duration of a point long ago.)
He said he's not playing with his left hand. He said the last time he played with his left hand, the tendons in his hand and arm hurt for a week. He's not playing left handed again. So he played right handed.
I'm 125 lbs. He's about 190 lbs, literally head and shoulders taller than me. Interesting. I am definitely on to something here. Playing tennis ambidextrously will develop both sides of your body, unlike all you Fiddler Crabs.
I got the choreography mixed up, people came late, and I had to go to the bathroom. I have the best player and the worst player waiting their turn to play. I told the best player to play with his left hand to equalize with the worst player. Smart idea, as all my ideas are. But it didn't work out in practice (as most of my ideas are)
Flashback . . .
Last time the guy got me to play his wackiest rules:
serve must be underhand, cross court (I specified cross court)
3 hits to start scoring
on a volley, if you don't touch the ball - 3 points
if you can't hit the ball over the net - 2 points
all others - 1 point
So I stipulated my wacky rule, left hand vs left hand. I beat him 21-8. Interpolating from the score, that probably lasted 15 minutes (I timed the average duration of a point long ago.)
He said he's not playing with his left hand. He said the last time he played with his left hand, the tendons in his hand and arm hurt for a week. He's not playing left handed again. So he played right handed.
I'm 125 lbs. He's about 190 lbs, literally head and shoulders taller than me. Interesting. I am definitely on to something here. Playing tennis ambidextrously will develop both sides of your body, unlike all you Fiddler Crabs.
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