Jessica Wynn

Water polo is not that popular, but it is an interesting formation how they can take advantage over their right-handed opponents.

It's similar to tennis.

A left-handed tennis player has an advantage over their right-handed counterparts because playing tennis as a lefty, it forces the opponent to respond to different angles and spins and serving positions.

Yeah, you might be able to.

I mean, left handed pool players have an advantage because they have better angles for certain shots.

They can often shoot righty as well from the simple fact of just adapting to a right handed world.

And fencing gets interesting when a lefty is an opponent.

It just confuses everything a right handed person trained for.

There's even a classic scene about it in that movie, The Princess Bride.

Right.

Yeah, for sure.

And this isn't athletics, but another interesting fact is that astronauts are more likely to be left-handed.

About 60% of astronauts are left-handed, which is a rate much higher than the general population.

I mean, there's nothing solid, but it does point back to how those cilia are formed in the womb.

Since they influence our hearing and vision, that seems to be a factor for things like astronauts, pilots, even underwater divers.

This is weird and not sure what it means evolutionarily, but studies overwhelmingly show that left handed people adjust more easily to seeing underwater and have far better vision below the surface than righties.

Yeah.

I mean, it's in everything.

It's not just with our hands.

We have dominant feet.