ambidextrous ... impressive indeed

How is this a myth? What is the supposed content of this myth? And the video? Some people throw like girls, then throw even more like girls with their other hand. Then this lady comes up who can throw and is commended for throwing like a man. What?

If you are a man and someone says you throw or run like a girl everyone understands what that means. It means they want to find out if you also fight like a girl.

If you are a girl and you do something like a girl - that doesnt actually merit conversation. Or insult. Ambiguity overload. Could mean anything.

Throwing with your left hand. That has more to do with your favored hand and favored eye than practice and technique. My younger son is right handed but has a dominant left eye. He can hit a target equally well with either hand, same "form". He can probably throw a bit farther with his right hand but not by much. Not so good trying to aim a gun - try holding a weapon in your right hand and aim with your left eye. He shoots like a girl (yes I know there are many girls who can shoot) but he can throw like a man with both hands. For basketball, tennis, ice-hockey, soccer - very useful to be ambidextrous. Probably also skiing, snowboarding, surfing, because you care less about which way you are turning.

Why would you want to take practice and technique out of the equation anyway - throwing like a girl is not just about strength, it´s about attitude and motivation and will to compete. And technique.

And girls very obviously have different techniques to men in sports that rely a lot on strength and aggresivity. Some girls practice with men and apply masculine techniques, others try to find their own way. No one tells Sharapova that she hits the ball like a girl - but that is certainly exactly what she does, compared to Nadal, no insult intended.

Andy Murray now has a female coach, I am sure he will be very careful not to appear to be hitting the ball like a girl.

If you have the same equipment and strength matters you cant help having a different technique.

If all that matters is skill (lets say youre throwing a light ball a short distance at a target) I would expect not much gender difference.

I love his style, and man, he is just Mr Ambidextrous isn't he?

I read somewhere ambidextrous people can have memory and learning troubles I think.

Like if you attempted to become ambidextrous, your brain would start to blue screen randomly as it began to re-wire itself.

Tho yeah, that's cool. =]

Interesting bit of irony here - an amazingly ambidextrous street artist with obviously excellent motor control being filmed by someone who has neither, or is the inventor of the shaky-cam.

Thanks. I thought I was asking the right guy.

In reply to this comment by NordlichReiter:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland_State_Police

The Maryland State Police are currently issued a Beretta PX4 Storm, but the officer in the video seems to be carrying something of the Beretta type, but I cannot tell. It definetly does not look like a glock which usually have a square slide.

When he holsters the weapon his thumb appears to come up to hit a decocker, which on a Beretta is on the back of the slide and ambidextrous.

I don't know if its standard protocol to have the hammer in ready position, most pistols are double action. However it does appear that he is placing the gun on safe when he holsters the weapon, he is defiantly doing something.

In this case I don't think he needed to draw his weapon. Some will say that's protocol; I say if the perpetrator was not armed then there was no need to present a weapon. In my mind the situation did not scale on the force continuum to have need for a weapon. Maybe soft physical force; the officer jumped straight to lethal force.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_force_continuum

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Heh, thanks Nordy. You seem to know a lot about handgun training, so if I may ask a question? Does he appear to take the safety off with his left hand immediately after drawing the weapon? Is that procedure, or is the decision to saftey off a separate event?

In reply to this comment by NordlichReiter:
>> ^schmawy:

Nope. It's not changing.


TELL EM SERIOUS CAT!
GET 'EM!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland_State_Police

The Maryland State Police are currently issued a Beretta PX4 Storm, but the officer in the video seems to be carrying something of the Beretta type, but I cannot tell. It definitely does not look like a glock which usually have a square slide.

When he holsters the weapon his thumb appears to come up to hit a decocker, which on a Beretta is on the back of the slide and ambidextrous.

I don't know if its standard protocol to have the hammer in ready position, most pistols are double action. However it does appear that he is placing the gun on safe when he holsters the weapon, he is definitely doing something.

In this case I don't think he needed to draw his weapon. Some will say that's protocol; I say if the perpetrator was not armed then there was no need to present a weapon. In my mind the situation did not scale on the force continuum to have need for a weapon. Maybe soft physical force; the officer jumped straight to lethal force.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_force_continuum

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Heh, thanks Nordy. You seem to know a lot about handgun training, so if I may ask a question? Does he appear to take the safety off with his left hand immediately after drawing the weapon? Is that procedure, or is the decision to saftey off a separate event?

In reply to this comment by NordlichReiter:
>> ^schmawy:

Nope. It's not changing.


TELL EM SERIOUS CAT!
GET 'EM!

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magically
Alter battle rap habitats automatically
You back down, I change your background like
Photoshop
My oratory inventory's overstocked
I'm ripping the track, djs are enjoying it
'Cutting it up, and completely destroying it'
Ambidextrous, yo you must be on a deathwish
Stepping to this, I'm venemous I'll leave you
breathless
I spat words, waxed and taxed herbs
Your raps absurd, backs get fractured,
My crack a shell, bag your mademoiselle
Take the cake then I break like a bat out of hell
You fuck with Esoteric catch a capital L
Lock horns with 7L, son there's none parallel
You need a beat to flow to?
You're lucky if your said Hello to
Bitch-ass crab I thought I told you

'Known to be the master in the M.C. field'
'Make way, 'cause here I come'
'Known to be the master in the M.C. field'
'Cover every angle on the mic, I'm killin''

It's Esoteric kid, yeah that's whose spitting
Ask Lew dipping in the back, brew sipping
I spit hot shit when wack crew ripping
It even leaves the ink on your tattoo dripping
Crab cat talk about how your seeing gats
The only metal you hold is the one for being wack
The only battle you've been in is the one you
reinact
Talking trash from the back like a sneak attack
I'm strictly biz cause I'm going where Parrish
went
You ain't wack, you's a fucking embarrassment

I'm making sense like your last record's total
sales
I spoke in brail, you felt it so much
That you left with broken nails
When packing a jam, harrassing the fans for not
clapping their hands
Cuz you ain't dope you just a flash in the pan
Like coke to a crack dealer bagging a gram
I rock a fitted cap, can't deal with little
straps
Strictly big guns when it comes to ripping tracks
I ain't sweating sales, dub this for your crew
Cuz once they hear the rhymes they're gonna want
the cover too

Yo I take command crushing all my enemies,
breaking their hands
A giant avalanche quaking your fam
The mic killer, I bring doom ripping buffons
Rhymes expand like the womb in delivering rooms
Too gory, these kids split Whigs like a Tory
More importantly I bring the 4th degree of
sorcery
Orally, forgery authorities report to me
Quarterly, the way I corner borders be like
Normandy
I'm ornery, words turn, as your verse squirms
like an earthworm
First learn, churches burn as worlds turn
Predicaments, make your ligaments of no
significance
I'm speaking real words kid your speaking
ignorance
I must insist, it's tough to feel dissed
By a rap group I don't even know exists
What you maggots hope to say, could never serve
Shay
The only wax you put out was candles on your
birthday

Favourites

1) Season - Spring, while the blossoms and leaves are still budding
2) Place in the world - Amsterdam
3) Children's book - "Where the Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein
4) TV Series - Northern Exposure
5) Word - zesty
6) Film - Year of the Dragon
7) Curse - shitstain
Creature - The Faun
9) Past time - beers and shots in a Denver dive bar with musician friends
10)Person - Anais Nin or Shophie Scholl

Which one?

11) Dog or cat - both, but I prefer taking a walk with my dog
12) Sweet or savoury - both, but I'll take steak before chocolate
13) Cereal or Toast - both, Lucky Charms must never be underestimated
14) Tan or pale - pale
15) Shoes or barefoot - shoes, due to tender feet
16) Desktop or laptop - desktop for work, laptop for fun
17) Drive or walk - walk whenever possible
18) Drama or comedy - both, but good comedy is hard to find
19) Sex or food - fooooood
20) Futurama or Simpsons - The Simpsons is my #1 weakness

The Sift

21) Your fave personal submission - Blondie - Dreaming
22) A great comment on one of your vids - can't say; everyone here has their moments
23) Most off the wall member - quantumushroom; at least choggie had a heart
24) Favourite user name - too many; many clever names here
25) Your most used channel - not a channel guy
26) Personal dumbass moment - blowing my top or misunderstanding a post
27) Best avatar - they're all good - the avatar really frames the way you hear a comment being said in your head
28) Partner in crime - none, unfortunately
29) Do people offline know of your sift problem - no
30) Idea for the site - a way to subscribe to comments on a specific thread

About you

31) Where do you live - a hell-hole called Roswell, NM
32) Smoker/non-smoker - love the weed, hate the tabacco
33) Left or right handed - ambidextrous, right dominant
34) Hair colour - is thin a color?
35) Relationship status - a single liberal stuck in a conservative desert
36) How tall - sixish.
37) Children - no, unfortunately
38) Ever had an operation - no, thankfully
39) Best feature - generally patient and usually considerate
40) Use four words to describe yourself - complex, loner, creative, sensitive

If you could...what, who, when etc

41) Bring a famous person back from the dead - Henry Miller, with the hopes we'd be beer buddies
42) Give 50 grand to any charity - something for the children of Iraq
43) Send someone on a one way ticket to the moon - Bill O'Reilly
44) Relive a moment in your life - when I met a certain girl in college and fell in love
45) Have a superpower - precognition
46) Find out one thing you've always wanted to know - who pulled off 9/11
47) Have the opposite gender deal with something you have to - can't say, we've both got it rough in our own funny way
48) Be president for one hour - arrest the Bush Administration and launch an investigation into their activities
49) Delete a period in history - the Spanish Inquisition
50) Achieve one thing - publish a great book that was loved by all who read it

Brilliant. Favourite answers so far:

"Bring a famous person back from the dead - George Washington. He'd be fuckin pissed at what we've done to his nation".
"Most off the wall member - I'd say Choggie, but he doesn't have a wall to be off of, so kronosposeidon will have to do".
"Left or right handed - right handed, but ambidextrous when I pleasure myself".
"Siftbrew, it’ll help generate revenue for the site, and everyone can claim they made that last comment while under the influence".
"Have the opposite gender deal with something you have to - Masturbation, that is.. MY masturbation".
"Sex or food - Food. I made that choice a long time ago".
"Have the opposite gender deal with something you have to - Scarcity of awesome sex toys".

Hehe

Favourites

1) Season - Fall just as it changes from Summer.
2) Place in the world - On the sea.
3) Children's book - There's a monster at the End of this Book
4) TV Series - Too quickly this changes. Nothing right now.
5) Word - Pilobolus
6) Film - Wow. Don't know. So many good ones.
7) Curse - The curse of the... cat fart?
Creature - That one from the black lagoon.
9) Past time - Drinking and fighting and raping.
10)Person - Magnum PI. His mustache is divine.

Which one?

11) Dog or cat - both
12) Sweet or savoury - savory
13) Cereal or Toast - toast
14) Tan or pale - tan
15) Shoes or barefoot - shoes
16) Desktop or laptop - laptop
17) Drive or walk - walk
18) Drama or comedy - both
19) Sex or food - sex with food
20) Futurama or Simpsons - Simpsons. That's not even a contest.

The Sift

21) Your fave personal submission - The Official VideoSift Video
22) A great comment on one of your vids - I like being called a "boundary pusher".
23) Most off the wall member - Choggie.
24) Favourite user name - fissionchips.
25) Your most used channel - Comedy.
26) Personal dumbass moment - befriending Kronos. Kidding, KP!
27) Best avatar - Kubrick wins every time.
28) Partner in crime - Yes please.
29) Do people offline know of your sift problem - Yes.
30) Idea for the site - More cow bell.

About you

31) Where do you live - Los Angeles, CA
32) Smoker/non-smoker - a born again non-smoker
33) Left or right handed - right handed, but ambidextrous when I pleasure myself.
34) Hair colour - speak American, will you. There is no "u" in color! Brown.
35) Relationship status - In a relationship
36) How tall - A mind boggling 5'11''
37) Children - no thank you
38) Ever had an operation - yep, just recently on my hand (see question 33 above)
39) Best feature - my testicles
40) Use four words to describe yourself - fart. heart. shopping cart.

If you could...what, who, when etc

41) Bring a famous person back from the dead - Thomas Jefferson.
42) Give 50 grand to any charity - AIDS and cancer research
43) Send someone on a one way ticket to the moon - Bush
44) Relive a moment in your life - My childhood in the late 70s/early 80s
45) Have a superpower - Being daft.
46) Find out one thing you've always wanted to know - What happened before the big bang
47) Have the opposite gender deal with something you have to - The bias in family law courts.
48) Be president for one hour - Okay, sure.
49) Delete a period in history - The one at the end of this sentence.
50) Achieve one thing - A steady career in filmmaking

I'm funny too.

In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
I'm funny

I'm funny

Here's what happened when I tried that...

my ambidextrous art

I would give my left arm to be ambidextrous.