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Perhaps you are left eye dominant. I was a marksmanship coach and instructor in the Marines. Some right handed Marines had to shoot left handed because they were left eye dominant. Of course, it worked the other way for some left handed Marines. The first thing we would do is determine eye dominance for all of the Marines in our charge. Point at something in the distance with both eyes open, then close your left eye. If your finger is still pointed at the object, you are right eye dominant. Do it again but this time close your right eye. Some people don't have a dominate eye. They can often shoot well either left or right handed or equally not so well...

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Nah I'm right eye dominant and a recon marine. It's like some weird brain shit. I can't explain it.

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It is very interesting how the brain is divided, with each hemisphere primarily operating the opposing side of the body.

Cross hemispheric structures play an important role overall. Learning to do basic tasks ambidextrously is a great hobby.

Something I notice when doing physical tasks with my less dominant side is the other half does not help as much unless I study my motions and then attempt to replicate them mirrored, but it is more than just hands and arms that move to support actions.

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I'm a mess, left eye dominant, stereo blind, right handed, and I'm ambilegstrous, can't play pingpong for shit.

People get confused about me at the range a lot, holster on the right but I shoulder on the left, a weird number of people have tried to start arguments with me about crossdrawing, despite never doing it.

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M the opposite. I’m left handed but kick right footed and play golf right handed. I’m a left handed shot in hockey

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Not me, but growing up there was a kid in our neighborhood who could ONLY catch and throw right handed. So when we played baseball, he had to use a "left" handed glove on his right hand, and then would have to yank the bitch off to throw the ball. Shit was funny as hell. Luckily, he played outfield so reaction time wasn't super critical.

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I swear there was a hollywood movie about a 1 armed pitcher that did this.

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Pete Gray played in the majors https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Gray

Lately the U of Michigan had a guy who did the same thing. Can’t think of his name

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Oddly enough, when I water ski or snowboard, I do it goofy foot. I can't explain it. Everything else, I use the right foot. Go figure.

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Same shit with me. I tried for hours to get up on a wakeboard riding regular and couldn't do it. I tried goofy and did it my first try. But it works out for me, my eyes don't work right if I look all the way to the left as hard as I can but they work fine looking right. Hard to snowboard regular when you can't see properly looking hard left. Otherwise you look like a fag who belongs on greens with upper body rotation.

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My oldest son is like this. I never tried to fix it and just let him do what he did. He writes left handed but bats righty, kicks lefty. It's weird but it works for him...

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Thats me as well. I remember showing up to a little league practice and immediately assuming the right handed batting position. Coach was confused by this as I was throwing left handed, and so he asked me to try batting left handed. The posture felt extremely awkward and I had absolutely no hand/eye coordination in that position.

I never really gave the fact that I kick with my left foot much thought.

I shoot rifles from the right shoulder. I can't recall if thats what felt natural to me from the beginning or if the hot brass fixed me. I shoot handguns with my left hand.

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I'm right-handed but left-eye dominant. I do RC cars left handed and knit continent (left hand holds the yarn and maneuvers it). I'm not sporty in the least but I remember my gym teacher in high school saying I was left leg/foot dominant. No idea what any of it means, other than when I go shooting I have to make sure to close my left eye to make it easier on those advising me.

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Ambidexterous, but right foot dominate. Shoot right, airbrush/write left. Use most hand tools either hand. Can only bend conduit w/ bender held lefty.

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Based on my experiences growing up playing soccer, its actually rarer to find someone thats fully left dominate. The majority of my left footed friends were right handed. I had one friend that was fully left dominate and he was the one the pointed out to me how rare it was to be fully left dominate. I was shocked but he turned out to be right. Even through college, almost all the left footed players were right handed.