Funny fact is, our family denies all this - I have two sisters, both are lefties, and I am right-handed
Haha, well maybe you can find this complete article: "Understanding Human Behavior" by McConnel, James V, p39. "According to most experts, about 90 percent of the world's population is right-handed. Of the remaining 10 percent, about half are "strongly" left-handed. Which is to say, in about 5 percent of people, the right hemisphere is dominant and controls language. Almost twice as many males as females are left-handed. And according to British psychologist Marian Annett, more than twice as many artists, musicians, mathematicians, and engineers are left-handed as would be expected by chance. [...] About 10 percent of left-handers suffer from language disorders and reading disabilities, while only 1 percent of right-handers do. And recent studies suggest that left-handers are three times more likely to suffer severe migraine headaches and certain types of autoimmune diseases than are right-handed people. According to Harvard neurologist Norman Geschwind, the cause for left-handedness may lie in testosterone, the male hormone. Geschwind beleves testosterone slows the growth of the left hemisphere, thus favoring greater development of the right. "Consequently, males end up right-handed less often than females." ------------------------------------ As for badminton there are a few juniors now who are lefty: Carolina Marin (runner-up U19, champion U17), Fabienne Deprez and Mette Poulsen. All three in the top of the european juniors
Interesting subject. I'd noticed even at club level fewer women lefties - didn't know it was a statistical thing. UK players will know of Tracy Hallam, leftie who won gold in the 2006 Commonwealth Games amongst many other achievements, including beating Camilla Martin at (I believe) the 2004 OG. http://www.melbourne2006.com.au/NR/...C-BEF8-7662B99159A8/2066/TraceyHallamLand.jpg smautf
WS Carolina Marin of Spain Linda Zetchiri of Bulgaria Sayaka Sato, Sayaka Takahashi, Aya Ohori of Japan WD Chang Ye-Na and Chae Yoo-Jung of S. Korea Audrey Fontaine and Emilie Lefel of France Tse Ying Suet of Hong Kong, China (another left-handed player other than Chau Hoi Wah) Nina Vislova of Russia N. Sikki Reddy of India Lai, Shevon Jemie of Malaysia Chiang Kai-Hsinof Chinese Taipei
MAS MD: Yap Kim Hock Soo Beng Kiang "Mighty" Choong Tan Fook Tan Boon Heong MAS MS: Wong Choong Hann Yong Hock Kin Tan Chun Seang Lee Tsuen Seng Soong Joo Ven MAS WD: Chin Eei Hui Woon Khe Wei
From memory: Bodin Isara - Thailand Mathias boe - Denmark Yuta Watanabe - Japan Yang pohan - Chinese Taipei Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Yeah. But that is why i said rarely. Like.. look at this generation of players.. i cannot think of anyone significant from indonesian playing with left hand. Kholik maybe..
True, they would still use right hand to hold a racket even if they are left handed if I'm not mistaken. Recently (less than 24 hours ago), I came across greysia polli's instagram and saw Gloria Emanuelle Widjaja eating with her left hand. Some china players did the same too e.g. Jia Yifan and Fu Haifeng signs with their right hand and Lin Dan eats with his right hand. I read from one topic here stating that one of them saw lin dan signs and eat with his right hand in a video. superstitious maybe? Jia Yifan - China
Well.. gloria is right handed.. maybe that is one off time, that she use her left. I met her and have a chance to eat with the xd players... She is definitely right handed. But.. Indonesians do have superstitions about left handedness. I just didn't think that it will be brought to badminton
japan - momota, yuki kaneko korea - seo seung-jae russia - ivan sozonov china - tian houwei taipei - yang po han england - chris adcock denmark - joachim fischer nielsen
I remembered when i was in the state junior under 12 squad back in the early 80s, had a coach (mr haron ahmad), that can play both arm with equal effectiveness. So fun and enjoy to see him play creating havoc with both hands against any rookie. If any newbie ask us about what coach is capable.....i answered... hmmmm....sometimes coach dont do backhand
