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Correlation with being Regular/Goofy Foot and preferring Left or Right Turns ?

I'm not goofy foot, and I'm not sure I favor turning one direction vs the other. I do tend to be slower in RH turns because - in general - the sightlines are shorter, and I try to ride within my sightlines, but I'm equally comfortable turning either direction.
 
Amazing how many people posted up on this saying they are mixed left/right for different things. I thought I was sort of an oddball on that.

I’m right handed, and throw right. But I played soccer in high school and sandlot football before that - always kicked lefty. I can kick pretty well right, tho, if needed. Shoot long arms lefty. Picked up a guitar lefty, and my instructor made me switch. Said left-handed guitars are too hard to come by and too expensive.

I don’t surf or skateboard, but I waterski on a slalom with my left foot back. Does that make me goofy?

Love my left turns on the bike. After pondering this once in a while over the years I’ve concluded it has to do with where your hands and arms are relative to throttle, in a similar vein to what @tzrider said, The ergos for lefts are just better in terms of being able to make fine adjustments on the throttle.

So, no, I don’t believe there’s a correlation between hand or foot dominance and turn preference. Then again, I don’t know squat about it scientifically, so take that with a grain of salt. I wonder what ai has to say about this - anyone check?
 
Like you and others, I have cross dominance’s; right eyed, left handed, right footed. But it doesn’t explain all of my preferences: I write and eat with the left, play tennis left, swing a hammer left, an axe from the right, drills in either hand, hand planes in the right, screwdrivers in the left, bat right, shoot right, fight in right stance, prefer to kick right, play guitar right, play drums with a right handed setup and seem to have higher grip strength in my right hand.

I should probably just write right handed too, because my writing couldn’t be much worse.
 
I am fairly right hand dominate, but I have noticed since I started riding a dozen or so years ago that my left side is more "useful." I am pretty nerdy and stuck in my head about details, and I worked hard to balance out my riding, in particular, my left/right turn efficiency. I do feel like I need to pay a bit more attention to right turns to match what I do more naturally, turning left, but at this point, it feels pretty even.

I have been a cyclist for my entire life, starting with rear coaster brakes a million years ago, and progressing to hand brakes, with the front brake in my left hand. Despite friends talking about having issues riding motorcycles after cycling with the front brake in their right hand, I never had an issue with that. For me, I just thought about all the throttle and braking were on the right, with the shifting on the left. But far more than driving manual transmission cars, motorcycles seemed to "train" my left side considerably more. Now, I can use a drill or screwdriver in my left hand far more efficiently than I could before riding. Riding definitely seems to balance the left/right brain function in my experience.
 
After riding motos, my bicycle front brakes got switched, for my calibrated right brake hand.
I still marvel at my extremely calibrated clutch hand, all those stuck pushing, in a muddy sidehill, rocky drops, and a footpeg stuck in a bush.
I escaped.
 
Velocess said:
With MotoGP announcers beating the proverbial dead horse of #93's affinity of Left hand turns, wondering if there is a link between natural foot placement and turn direction preference.

Apparently he is Regular foot.

I'm Goofy foot and prefer going Left.

How does the BARF crew align ...
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I'm mainly ambidextrous. As a Little Leaguer, I was a freak who pitched from both sides of the rubber, until I tore my right labrum at 13, and was forced to throw southpaw. I surfed and skated both ways, too. Skied, but never took up snow boarding. Motos? As long as I can see through a corner, I have no preference.

So I'd fit right in at CNN.
 
Goofy footed here and definitely prefer lefts. I wonder if it has anything to do with a left-brain/right-brain thing. Even pretending to turn right here while sitting at my table the left feels so much smoother and nice.

Looking forward to thinking about the screwdriver throttle on right turns. . .
 
Waterski right foot forward, ride a stand-up right foot forward, throw with the left hand, shoot with right, write with right but was switched at young age from left.

My three best passing zones at our Bay Area tracks are all in T3 at the tracks. Two turn right and one turns left. I'd say no correlation in my riding and the things above.
 
Lucytriple said:
Goofy footed here and definitely prefer lefts. I wonder if it has anything to do with a left-brain/right-brain thing. Even pretending to turn right here while sitting at my table the left feels so much smoother and nice.

Looking forward to thinking about the screwdriver throttle on right turns. . .
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Ive always maintained that if you don't have the right brain, you should have it looked at.
 
I'm right handed and am better at left turns on the motorcycle. In supermoto I usually ride with my leg out on right turns.
 
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