I can do it equally w both hands and trade off to avoid overuse.

Kay

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I agree. I am a left handed, CW skater but I prefer all turns on my left foot regardless of the direction. I do ina bauers and spreads with my left foot leading and prefer spirals on my left foot. So I think I am just stronger/more coordinated on my left side.

There is a left handed skater at my rink who jumps CCW and the only other CW skater at my rink is a right handed!

I had to learn when I developed carpel tunnel in my right wrist. Mousing left came a lot easier than I expected. Writing left still seems impossible, but I can't say I've pushed it.

I'm very right-handed, but still spin clockwise for preference. I have a theory that this is because I find most skating skills easier with my right foot, though, rather than because I'm a clockwise skater.... I jump (such jumps as I do) anti-clockwise, though, and can spin anti-clockwise when I have to.

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I switch right and left mousing cuz otherwise I get RSI.

Hi!

I am also a right-handed clockwise skater... It came naturally from the beginning...

Most Learn to Skate programs seem to encourage beginning skaters to jump in the "usual" way, and spin in the "usual" way. And the little ones generally go along with it.

however, I've also seen a few skaters (more than a few!) - who, when their natural "jumping" direction was determined, significantly improved with a change to the "different" direction. It just took some painful retraining ... worth it in the end.

I wondered why, when my baby started skating at age 4, the coach (she's coached privately, because we believe that early direct instruction saves a lot of grief down the road) - brought a soccer ball out on the ice and got her to kick it - several times over the course of some weeks. Apparently, it was to assist in determining the proper jump and spin direction right from the beginning, to avoid issues later. Turns out ... she's a reverse spinner, which causes some grief when she DOES have a group lesson, as the coaches model a normal direction, the other kids do a normal direction ... etc etc ... and of course little one wants to go along with it. Our coach intervened with the group coaches to get them to encourage her to spin and jump in her own way, now, though - something we would never have realized was an issue without someone actually assessing her direction from day one.

(BTW: the little one is ambidextrous, right hand slightly dominant).

me tooo ... so I have two mice, both ergonomic design - but one for LEFTIES (hard to find) - and one for RIGHTIES. But, as I'm aged anyways, I still find mice to be an annoying excuse to have to remove my hands from the keyboard (long live the command prompt, long live DOS).

I am right handed...very right handed...and am a CW skater.
My story is funny though. I switched by choice to CW when I was about 7 or 8, because that's the way my best friend did it. And I wanted to be "different" like her. How special.

To do this day my coach says I look awkward when I jump, and thinks I could have been a much better skater the "normal" way. Unforutnately, after 16 years of skating one way, it'd be too hard to switch.

A note with the LTS programs - I never tell a child which way to spin. I don't say anything about direction, unless they move up into the Group Starskate lessons (level 4 or 5 Canskate) and they continually switch back and forth. Usually then I'll ask them which hand they write with, or later on in the session or next day, when they're not thinking about it, to do a 2 foot spin.

I'm a right-hander, but have been using the mouse with the left hand since college for a silly reason - my desk in the dorm room was set up such that there was more room on the left side!

It has been really useful, though, since it means I can navigate the computer and write at the same time. Certainly saved time on the computerised GRE tests!

Cheers,
Chow

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Last night my friend and me were Public Skating and she did a waltz jump and she jumped clockwise. So now I'm really happy that I'm not the only clockwise skater ar my club, also she writes with her right hand like me!!

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NO to the OP. I'm right handed, jump/spin CW. (although I have a bad CCW waltz jump and a 2 revs forward spin CCW!! because I wanted to try)

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I think that a person should be able to learn how to spin or jump in either direction. It just requires some amount of time for getting used to it as well as to develop the muscles or power on that side to get the results.

There was some article in the news some time ago about how people can really learn to write with the other hand without any problem....and it doesn't take a long time. This is also probably like those driving stick-shift/manual cars in different parts of the world and then needing to switch to a country where the gear stick is on the other side of the car. Fortunately, only the gear stick is shifted ..... and not the positions of the foot pedals hahahaha

I'm also CW and right-handed.. I can do waltz jumps and about 6 rev one-foot spins CCW. When I very first started skating I would spin CCW then one day I was showing my mom something we were doing in dance (except I was doing it on the ice) which I guess required somewhat spinning CW and found it was much easier. So since then I've been a CW skater!

I'm right handed and prefer to spin and jump CCW.

My coach makes me do waltz jumps, salchows and toe-loops in both directions though. We do a circuit of the rink doing consecutive, alternating direction jumps and with the waltz jump, by the time I finish I sometimes can't even remember which is my 'good' way. In isolation however, I can't perform the CW jump nearly as well as CCW

I find the salchow the hardest to do CW (wrong for me) direction - maybe because of the rotational bit in the take off - I can't spin in the wrong direction. Although I'm better at clockwise twizzles but that's probably more to do with leg strength. Coach and friends reckon they cant' see any difference between my salchows in either direction ( which I think is worrying - does it mean my right way CCW jumps are bad!!!!!

Most of my turns are better CCW except back outside and inside 3's which are much better clockwise - so maybe I'm only CCW going forwards!

I did once learn to write with my left hand when I broke my right wrist but it was very untidy. Looked similar to when I write upside down or mirror writing (or even more fun: upside down and mirrored writing )

I like the fact coach makes me jump both ways (although I was horrified when he first made me try it!) as it must help to keep the body more balanced. Just a pity you don't get any credit for it in comps or I'd have it in my programme.

I actually had a skate director bark at me for letting kids spin CW. I thought she was way out of line.

Kay

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I just totally navigated my way with my left hand! there's really no difference besides having to remember to use the *other* hand to hit the enter key!

and I'm right handed, spinning CW... thus having a bit of trouble with some jumps because left leg is not as strong.

I trade off between mouse hands on the computer, too! I think that skating has made me more ambidextrous because we're forced to do patterns & turns in both directions & on both sides. I wouldn't be surprised if that creates more connections between the two sides of the brain.

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Im a right handed CW skater but i do most sports left handed. i usually put it that im right handed and left footed... recently ive found that writing with my left hand is pretty easy so i usually write with left when im bored in class (english )
The MAin thing i dont like about being a CW skater is that most (if not all) skating fiction books are in CCW and when the moves are described i usually have to translate. cough silverblades cough.

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