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In article <BzoMxp.MM4@umassd.edu> pnsf01dw@UMASSD.EDU writes:
>In article <BzMIyF.HxH@news.iastate.edu>, wjturner@iastate.edu (William J Turner) writes:
(lots about knots deleted.)
>
>Related to all this talk of knots, how many of you out there can tie both right-
>and left-handed??? Just a curiousity... I've found it helps if you have to teach
>a lefty knots, particularly things like the bowline and sheet bend.

I can, but that's mainly because I'm fairly ambedextrious anyway (try sign
language to increase facility with both hands.  While you still tend towards
one hand, you will definately increase your use of the other non-dominant
hand--just an aside).

If you want to learn how to strenghten your non-dominant hand, try some
simple exercises that aren't all that simple for most people:
   try switching eating hands, ie. knife and fork are reversed.
   try typing one-handed, using the non-dominant hand.
   loosely bind your dominant hand and try utilizing the non-dominant
one in every-day tasks.  (DOn't be foolish, if you're doing something
potentially dangerous, ie. using an axe, don't do this!)
   as you experiment more and more with the non-dominant hand, you'll
actually find that things become easier, at least in my experience.  

If anyone tries this, please let me know ideas.  For a class once we had to 
do the last (part of a culture-barrier destruction lessonm) and it was
interesting to watch my classmates trying to write.  That is fairly 
difficult to do, and while I can write with my left hand, it is very
sloppy because I don't do it often enough.

scouting relevance?  This can be something fun to do at a meeting to 
teach scouts about trying to learn different methods of doing things
if their usual method is not available.  it helps in thinking up 
alternative methodology.  Another exercise to do this and to help  
in teaching how people in wheelchairs are at a distinct disadvatnage in
public buildings is to borrow wheelchairs from a local agency (red cross,
a hospital, united way even, often have a few wheelchairs they'll loan 
you for a few days)  and have the scouts "confined" to them for a few
hours or days.  This is a powerful lesson.  try it yourself first.  
What would happen if you had an accident and were confined even 
temporarily?  How would you handle what now seems so simple.  
Also, you can do fun things like wheelchair races and balancing 
contests to throw in some fun! :->)

Boy, I sure got off-thread...
merry, merry!
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