OT: Handedness (was Re: [LMB] anime vocabulary)

[Katrina Allis]

On 15/12/06, Jim Parish <jparish at siue.edu> wrote:
>
>
> When I was in grad school, my classmates and I played a lot of
> Ultimate Frisbee. One of them developed severe tendinitis in his right
> wrist, and was forced to learn to write left-handed (including on the
> chalkboard). Later, after his wrist recovered, he occasionally amused
> his students by switching hands at mid-chalkboard.
>

Some friends of mine got into Ultimate last summer and I've joined for this
season.  Of which we had to miss five games, thanks to the weather.

Recently, my flatmates and I attacked the gorse at the back of our house.
It's now in piles and one huge bag and the hillside looks remarkably bare
(we have cubic metres of clippings to get rid of).   However, it
reaggravated a wrist injury (right wrist) I'd had earlier this year while
working at a hotel, so for a while I switched to throwing backhand with my
lefthand and forehand with my right.

Throwing forehand is more comfortable now than backhand, which is quite
strange.

I have to wonder though: why do we play outdoor Ultimate in Wellington...

Katrina - who walked to and from practice this morning.

-- 
I have CDO.  It's like Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, only in alphabetical
order as it should be.

Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was
putting one foot in front of the other.  Moving all the same.
Lois McMaster Bujold, _Curse of Chalion_