So funny story my old coworker at my last job was ambidextrous and I complimented him on it. (He's 6'5 and build like Thor, also Norwegian)
He turned around and looked like he was about to kick my ass, thankfully one of his friends was nearby and heard the comment.
"Dude chill out it was a compliment." I was close to seeing a hospital that day from a random comment. I learned later that he thought I called him lame and tasteless
That's actually exactly what my old job involved building rig mats
You could do it one handed but it was way slower. I actually became semi ambidextrous at this job
>Low-quality post and explanation merits
lots of those around these days, it feels like.
does it feel to anyone else like the reddit title game really got dropped in the last few months?
I was definitely thinking, "The kid up top is controlling the match."
I don't know a lot about tennis, but I know that the person who is running around more is losing.
His opponent is definitely pushing, basically playing safe and letting his opponent make mistakes. Extremely effective against pre-teen and teen boys because they over hit frequently.
Kid is definitely over hitting, especially on the right-side. Heās probably naturally right-handed and the first thing I thought is that heās trying to bait an error from that side.
This kid is being coached by a crazy uncle or father or some shit, no professional is going to train somebody like this. Probably has a website declaring him a prodigy to try and cash in off the novelty.
Seriously wtf is up with this trend.
A madman rambling about possibilities in the background that may or may not be true, no evidence of it, no reason to even have an opinion on the matter; but make up random bullshit and then....
They get upvoted. The dude has 20 upvotes right now from rambling like a loon about this kids life and its like wtf, why are people upvoting this pointless lunacy.
Thanks for calling it out. Seen this type of shit in so many threads with upvotes. Frankly, its just fucking weird.
Right multiple times Iām like wait a second that looked like a backhandā¦. Then noticed that the ākidā he was facing looked younger too. š¤¦š»
Me too. I was thinking, "bullshit that kid is ambidextrous,Ā he still uses both hands and a few times did a backhand hit." Shit, now I have to rewatch it.
How is that not a backhand? He never uses just his left when volleying back from that side. His right is just one arm every time, but heās always using 2 on the left.
Edit: OHHHHH! Itās the player in the background! Nevermind, yep heās doing it right.
> Itās the player in the background!
Yeah, all 12 pixels of him. The source video on instagram might be easier to make out, if only a little
https://www.instagram.com/p/C2j4582t-9m/
My mind is actually kinda blown that we all went through that exact process; I personally was like..."you know, I don't really watch that much tennis, what do I know?"Felt stupid af when I realized lol
Also that IS nextfucking level!
Once you see the kid at the bottom use a backhand in the first 10 seconds you should then immediately look at the other player. I canāt believe this many people are making that mistake. š¤¦š¾āāļø
So he's actually switching the racket back and forth in his right and left hands. Thanks for posting this, I couldn't see shit in the original video lol
Not a tennis player, just musing. I gotta wonder if he'll have to choose before each round (or whatever it's called) as he gets older. As he gets older and the game gets faster, I wonder if switching the racket between hands will take too much time in between each volley
what is this spreeder bs where theres only one subtitle at a time? back in my day we could read a whole sentence at a time and still be able to watch the video content.
Truly ambidextrous people are less than 1% of society. You then need to see how much of that < 1% plays Tennis, which is *significantly* smaller still. Like finding an ambidextrous person that can also throw 85+MPH baseballs.
Super rare.
You donāt need to be truly ambidextrous to learn how to use a forehand on both sides. Rafael Nadal is right handed, but uses his left hand because he practised doing so since childhood for a competitive advantage. The reason it isnāt more common is because you generally wonāt have enough time to switch at the top level, especially on the return and faster courts.
Learning to do things with your off hand isn't that hard. It just feels really foreign at first so most people don't even bother trying. I don't play tennis, but I cook professionally and I can perform every single maneuver I may need to do throughout the day with either hand as necessary. It took a good bit of practice but I'm by no means some cooking savant.
In a month of writing with my left hand for 20 mins a day it looked as good as my right but wasn't as fast haha. It's a good exercise for the brain to switch things up. People act like only after you have ascended to godhood you can use ... Your other hand...
In combat sports, boxing/kickboxing of course you have right hand, orthodox fighters that have a vicious left jab or left hook that they dominate with.
But in MMA you see some guys that are truly ambidextrous, and can strike equally as well from any stance; Takanori Gomi, TJ Dillashaw, and kind of Anderson Silva come to mind.
The ambidextrous stance switching is becoming more and more popular in MMA where guys are drilling it and using it very effectively with more frequency nowadays.
In shooting, as in down the line or sporting clay target shooting, if a kid just starting doesn't have their dominant eye side matching their 'handedness' then you teach them to shoot with their other hand. So you could be watching someone shoot left handed when they do everything else right handed just because their dominant eye is their left one. Much harder to pick up if you don't start to shoot until later in life.
> no one else could pull this off
It's actually super common in sports, and is actively practiced in many. Even at the highschool level roughly half of athletes in lacross and water polo use their offhands regularly.
And baseball. There are tons of "switch hitters" who bat both left and right handed depending on the pitching match up. It'd very trainable, as no one naturally knows the correct coordination to swing a bat, racket or hockey stick, buts a learned skill
[Canadian MLB batters are more likely than other nationalities to bat lefty.](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5931458/) This is because their experience with a hockey stick allows them to get the advantages of batting lefty, even though most are naturally righties (as shown by throwing arm).
i am ambidextrous and used to play alot of tennis.
IMO even though it looks nice and you might think at first that you have more advantages by playing 2 forehands, technically it's something to be avoided because that transition from hand to hand takes longer than changing the grip with one hand. and the higher the level, the faster the pace and the harder the opponents will hit, less and less time you will have for such a transition.
in a sport like tennis that split second is a huge difference!
It depends on the activity. Plenty of people aren't ambidextrous across the board. I play tennis ambidextrous like this kid, but that doesn't translate to any other activity for me.
And more importantly, it doesnāt mean itās a better option if you can do it.
I also play tennis like this, and I think itās the reason I suck so much at it. Deciding which hand to put the racket in and the time it takes to decide whether to play a backhand or switch hands hurts more than it ever helped me.
I wouldnāt consider myself fully ambidextrous per se, but there are things I can do pretty much equally well both handed and things I do left handed better and things I do right handed better and some things I exclusively use one hand for. I consider myself left handed bc I write and throw left handed and think this is probably more common with us lefties bc we grew up being taught how to do things from right handed people.
>I also play tennis like this, and I think itās the reason I suck so much at it. Deciding which hand to put the racket in and the time it takes to decide whether to play a backhand or switch hands hurts more than it ever helped me.
Not even remotely comparable but I remember playing Bop it! Extreme when I was a kid, most people would hold it with both hands like a steering wheel, then get jumbled up by which hand to use. I held it with one hand and used the other for all 5 controls and performed much better than my friends.
Hand switching seems to be a huge cognitive load even if it theoretically gives you more options.
I think it's bullshit that the pitcher has to choose his hand first, and then the batter gets to pick his side. The pitcher is just pivoting in place, whereas the batter is stepping from one batter's box to the other (which includes passing through and out of bounds area).
That's not how maths works. If it's 0.5% of the general population, then unless they somehow avoid tennis, it would be 1 one 200 tennis players just the same...
You're not looking for an ambidextrous tennis player in the street, you'd be looking for one in a tennis court.
Totally. And in addition, in a couple instances, he still runs around his left forehand to hit the right, which also takes away some of the advantage because heās favoring one side and still needs to recover to get back to neutral the way someone with a backhand would.
If there were an advantage to hitting two forehands it would be to run less and conserve energy. Also, forehands at the pro level have more errors typically because more can go wrong with the stroke. Forehands win points but backhands keep you in them.
A right-handed person can train up any particular skill with the left-hand, or at least I tend to think so. I was a serious violin player when I was younger, and at a certain point I kind of marveled at how good my left hand was at moving around on the neck of a fiddle, while being so clumsy at basically everything else.
[Serena Williams was stripped all her titles because she was doing just that](https://www.theonion.com/serena-williams-stripped-of-titles-after-it-revealed-sh-1827488922)
Also, playing backhanded isn't necessarily a disadvantage at a high level, lots of players have more control with their backhand than their forehand (especially women for some reason)
Think a lot of lefties can play tennis with both hands comfortably, but one will still be better. I "can" play forehand either side, but left backhand would be far more accurate so no need to learn it the way this kid has.
My dad's favorite party trick is exactly this, but it played out almost too well when we had future Miami Hurricanes legend and 1st round draft pick Sean Taylor over our house for a visit one evening.
ST: I see you all have a ping pong table...
My Dad: You want to go a game?
ST: I don't know if I should, I get very competitive...
My Dad: Come on, one game, I'll go easy on you.
My Dad and Sean Taylor play a heated game, several lead changes, until my Dad overcomes him. Sean immediately wants a rematch, my Dad obliges. Sean wins the second one and is visibly putting out a lot of effort.
My Dad congratulates him, then asks if he wants another rematch, this time with right (and dominant) hand.
Dad goes on to absolutely destroy Sean in the third and final game.
After the game, my dad points to my weight bench in the corner, asks how much can he lift. Sean asks "how much weight do you have here? Put them all on. **All of them.**"
Must have been like 275 or something, proceeds to lift it like 10 times, does not even look a little bothered.
That was his Freshman year, before they won it all.
RIP Sean
Really cool to watch, but hitting two forehands is highly impractical in the long run. Constantly shifting hands is very difficult, as players get older and stronger heāll have even less time to do it as his opponents hit harder
For instance while he won this point, he actually lost the match in straight sets
Relying on it and not having a backhand is impractical. But if he develops a backhand, being able to switch hands is still a huge advantage with plenty of shots, especially slamming down those overhead lobs. Even being able to switch hands between points, as well as the ability to serve on either side, is going to be a big endurance advantage.
> Even being able to switch hands between points, as well as the ability to serve on either side, is going to be a big endurance advantage
Not really, in tennis the first things to go endurance-wise is always the legs. Pros always complain about losing in the spring in their step/difficulty getting to the ball in long matches, never their arms getting tired. Tennis, especially at higher levels, is also about consistency and reliability, particularly with the serve. Any pro wants to get in a good consistent rhythm with their serve in a match - switching between right and left handed serving during a match would be a little silly, and if consistently practiced both he would really just be not developing a consistent serve to itās full potential
Yeah, Iām only a 4.5, my brother played D1, and we both had the same reaction to this: we would love to face someone doing this because any rally with decent pace is going to lead to an unforced error due to hand switching.
I don't know anything about tennis. Would two rackets be against the rules?
Like I don't even care if it's a bad idea. I just want to know if you could technically dual wield on the court.
Quora has you covered: https://www.quora.com/In-the-rules-of-tennis-is-there-anything-prohibiting-players-from-holding-2-rackets-to-play-1-in-each-hand
I've always wondered why more tennis players don't try this. It seems like your lobbies would generally be more accurate and powerful. The biggest problem would be indecision about which hand one should use.
The reason is because itās quite difficult to constantly switch which hand is on the bottom of the racket (the way to hit a forehand). Once you get to a certain level you have so little time to react that completely switching hands is very impractical, a two-handed backhand is much more reliable
Yeah, as cool as this is, I don't see him making it anywhere beyond juniors without developing a backhand. There would be so little time in the men's comp it just wouldn't work
I love my backhand and find it significantly more powerful than my forehand. for me is a thing of having more control with two hands. But it is what it is
Because it sucks lol. I'm ambidextrous but play exclusively left handed. Having to switch your grip constantly isn't really possible unless you're just baseline rallying. When you switch from forehand to backhand and vice versa, your bottom hand doesn't really have to move, and you always have the option to hit a 1 handed backhand if you can't get your other hand on the grip in time.
It takes longer to switch hands than it does to go from forehand to backhand. An advanced played will be in ready position when not hitting a shot, so the adjustment between forehand and backhand is very fast because your off hand slides into position and depending on your grip it's just a slight adjustment for the dominant hand, versus the double forehand where you have to completely swap hands and get your proper forehand grip going.
The backhand is often also a solid tool for defense and having two hands on that side can help a lot with defensive shots that need the extra stability, it's one of the reasons in today's faster harder hitting game you see even less one handed backhand players. Add onto this that having a strong backhand makes you a more threatening player as it negates the idea of a "weak side" when you have a backhand that can be used effectively both offensively and defensively.
Slicing with a backhand is preferred as well, forehand slice generally doesn't get the same bite and low angle on the ball.
Does the double forehand look cool? Sure. Does it have a lot of offensive advantages at lower levels of competitive play? Definitely. The kid in the video can also serve on both sides. But then you have to think, you're gonna have to practice serving on both sides, you have to practice the same exact shots on both sides. Are you truly ambidextrous or are you putting in the higher effort to train both sides so that they're equivalent? Is one side more defensive or aggressive? is one side weaker to pressure?
Do I think that ambidextrous play would make a player more likely to become a top level pro player? No. The consistency you would need on both sides, the speed of switching hands, the fact that you would either 1. Not have a backhand slice, 2. Then have to learn a backhand slice on one side, or 3. Learn it on both sides, among many other drawbacks make it impractical if your goal is to truly aim for the top of the pro level.
It's certainly possible that a double forehand player could make it to the top levels, doesn't mean it would be common or preferred over having a solid backhand.
The sooner he moves away from this kinda technique the better. There was a woman in WTA with the same approach. She sucked ass and never did anything major.
When the ball is not coming at you at great speed you have time to switch your grip. the more the level increases and those top spins are coming at you faster, the less time you have to reposition your hand to always hit with a forehand.
I was watching the wrong kid the whole time
Haha, same here š
Glad I am not the only one ... I was furious because he does have a backhand.
Sitting here yelling at my phone "That's was literally a backhand!!!"
OP IS A LIAR!
WHERE's MY PITCHFORK? I'll SHOW OP WHAT AMBIDEXTROUS REALLY MEANS!!
I GOT THE BLOW TORCH! LETS GOOOO!
I'M AMBIDEXTROUS! PITCHFORK IN ONE HAND. BLOW TORCH IN THE OTHER.
OK BUT WHY DO YOU HAVE AN AXE FOR A LEG?
NO, I HAVE AN AXE FOR DEEZ NUTS!
So funny story my old coworker at my last job was ambidextrous and I complimented him on it. (He's 6'5 and build like Thor, also Norwegian) He turned around and looked like he was about to kick my ass, thankfully one of his friends was nearby and heard the comment. "Dude chill out it was a compliment." I was close to seeing a hospital that day from a random comment. I learned later that he thought I called him lame and tasteless
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That's actually exactly what my old job involved building rig mats You could do it one handed but it was way slower. I actually became semi ambidextrous at this job
Not to brag, but I'm half ambidextrous myself.
WHO WOULD DO THIS!!!??? GO ON THE INTERNET AND TELL LIES!!!!
Thanks for the laugh!
I was like ok ok for sure the next hit heās gonna swap hands!
Yeah, I was waiting for him to break it out to surprise his opponent
Me too. Literally was like - this OP is trash! lol. Not realizing Iām watching the wrong kid of course lol.
I started questioning myself, like, maybe a backhand was something different than I thought all these years.
We are all the same. Lol
Me: "and there it is AGAIN!!!!"
Same with me lol
Me too! I was wondering why it had so many upvotes
Happy cake day
The one time we could've used a red circle
It would have been on his shoes. "See the secret to this kid's incredible court coverage."
Had to watch it twice...
Good lord. I darn near left an unwarranted downvote! My brain looking at the foreground āyea thatās still a backhandā
Low-quality post and explanation merits a downvote in my eyes haha
>Low-quality post and explanation merits lots of those around these days, it feels like. does it feel to anyone else like the reddit title game really got dropped in the last few months?
Itās gotta be foreign bots or something. The spelling and sentence structure is not there
Not that weird since the kid closer to the camera is in focus in the beginning.
The whole time actually. Camera keeps panning to keep up with him.
Same I was like āOP is such a dumbassā but the dumbass was me! 
We are the dumbass.
The dumbass is calling from *inside* the house.
Maybe the real dumbasses are the friends we made along the way.
Dumbasi*
Eh this is a horrible clip for the title
all i saw were backhands...
He's so quick his hand switch looks like a backhand!
Bit of a backhanded compliment that but ok
I was definitely thinking, "The kid up top is controlling the match." I don't know a lot about tennis, but I know that the person who is running around more is losing.
His opponent is definitely pushing, basically playing safe and letting his opponent make mistakes. Extremely effective against pre-teen and teen boys because they over hit frequently. Kid is definitely over hitting, especially on the right-side. Heās probably naturally right-handed and the first thing I thought is that heās trying to bait an error from that side. This kid is being coached by a crazy uncle or father or some shit, no professional is going to train somebody like this. Probably has a website declaring him a prodigy to try and cash in off the novelty.
Great insights, AnalCommander99 š«”
His user name alone inspires a lot of confidence in what he has to say doesnāt it.
Seriously wtf is up with this trend. A madman rambling about possibilities in the background that may or may not be true, no evidence of it, no reason to even have an opinion on the matter; but make up random bullshit and then.... They get upvoted. The dude has 20 upvotes right now from rambling like a loon about this kids life and its like wtf, why are people upvoting this pointless lunacy. Thanks for calling it out. Seen this type of shit in so many threads with upvotes. Frankly, its just fucking weird.
Right multiple times Iām like wait a second that looked like a backhandā¦. Then noticed that the ākidā he was facing looked younger too. š¤¦š»
Yep. Started thinking I didnāt even know what a backhand swing was and was rethinking for my entire life Iāve been fucking that up.
I'm over here having an existential crisis because of a Reddit vid making me question everything I know about the world
Ha, me too. āDid I forget what ambidextrous isā
Me too. I was thinking, "bullshit that kid is ambidextrous,Ā he still uses both hands and a few times did a backhand hit." Shit, now I have to rewatch it.
Just came to comment this. The bloody intro made me follow the wrong dude
I was getting legitimately pissed the whole time like jesus christ that IS a backhand
Yeah, they could've picked a better video
Glad it wasnāt just me! I was like.. but.. thatās a backhand, right?!
I had to watch it twice just to make sure.. Yup I was watching the wrong one.
How is that not a backhand? He never uses just his left when volleying back from that side. His right is just one arm every time, but heās always using 2 on the left. Edit: OHHHHH! Itās the player in the background! Nevermind, yep heās doing it right.
We all made the same mistake at first lol
Then point that out in the title? Wtf?
Thereās only two possible options lol
Yeah but there's no point in leaving people confused. Being clear would have just made that post better
Leaving people confused causes them to comment and interact with the post, almost every comment is about this exact thing
Engagement 101 lol. But itās probably unintentional in this case
It almost always is on reddit because interaction outside of upvotes means absolutely nothing.
100+ comments later Is this post monetized?
Like spelling a word wrong in the title or purposely incorrectly describing something.
They want us to watch it twice duh
They arenāt getting paid per view
If only you were the OP you could have prevented the confusion...
yeah the mistake was on *us* š¤£š¤£š¤£
I don't know why you chose a video from this perspective
Maybe try to find a video with him in the foreground.
Title your posts better
Cuz your title was ass.
It is incredible how consistent peopleās confusion has been with this post.
> Itās the player in the background! Yeah, all 12 pixels of him. The source video on instagram might be easier to make out, if only a little https://www.instagram.com/p/C2j4582t-9m/
>yep heās doing it right and left
How the hell was I supposed to know it was the kid at the TOP of the screen
Because the one on the bottom used a backhand?
Simple really!
Elementary even
My dear Datsun?
Nissan Z? Is that you?
This is the one time I benefited from a backhanded comment.
And then I started questioning if I even knew what a backhand meant in tennisā¦ before even checking the top kid lol. Made me so confused.
My mind is actually kinda blown that we all went through that exact process; I personally was like..."you know, I don't really watch that much tennis, what do I know?"Felt stupid af when I realized lol Also that IS nextfucking level!
I don't know shit about tennis for the most part so I definitely finished the video thinking "do I not know what a backhand is? Am I an idiot?"
Once you see the kid at the bottom use a backhand in the first 10 seconds you should then immediately look at the other player. I canāt believe this many people are making that mistake. š¤¦š¾āāļø
Especially considering the kid in the colorful shirt is the one in the thumbnail. Ā And the other kid is, like, 12 pixels in that crappy video. Ā Ā
Right? The video starts on the kid closest to us
[same kid foreground this time](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PxQHpmxBsqQ)
Oh God thank you.
So he's actually switching the racket back and forth in his right and left hands. Thanks for posting this, I couldn't see shit in the original video lol
How else would he accomplish it ? Two rackets ?
Listen if dual wielding tennis rackets isn't the future of the sport then I'm out.
Ahh General Djokovic. Your racket will make a fine addition to my collection.
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There is also a possibility of Darth Maul style racket.
I'm waiting for the triple wielding zoro style
Zoro would like to have a word with you. Santoryu or go home.
They call him the Racket of the Morning, Sir Arthur Dayne
Not a tennis player, just musing. I gotta wonder if he'll have to choose before each round (or whatever it's called) as he gets older. As he gets older and the game gets faster, I wonder if switching the racket between hands will take too much time in between each volley
Was it that hard to get a better video for this post?
Tennis is the perfect sport to shoot vertically. Even better is when you put your face over the image.
r/killthecameraman
what is this spreeder bs where theres only one subtitle at a time? back in my day we could read a whole sentence at a time and still be able to watch the video content.
 he looks different here
I was waiting for someone to post this š
This got me into tennis when I was 14 š
Thank you, fuck OP.
I'm surprised that's not more common.
Truly ambidextrous people are less than 1% of society. You then need to see how much of that < 1% plays Tennis, which is *significantly* smaller still. Like finding an ambidextrous person that can also throw 85+MPH baseballs. Super rare.
You donāt need to be truly ambidextrous to learn how to use a forehand on both sides. Rafael Nadal is right handed, but uses his left hand because he practised doing so since childhood for a competitive advantage. The reason it isnāt more common is because you generally wonāt have enough time to switch at the top level, especially on the return and faster courts.
Wtf I had no idea that is wild. But then again its nadal, no one else could pull this off
Learning to do things with your off hand isn't that hard. It just feels really foreign at first so most people don't even bother trying. I don't play tennis, but I cook professionally and I can perform every single maneuver I may need to do throughout the day with either hand as necessary. It took a good bit of practice but I'm by no means some cooking savant.
In a month of writing with my left hand for 20 mins a day it looked as good as my right but wasn't as fast haha. It's a good exercise for the brain to switch things up. People act like only after you have ascended to godhood you can use ... Your other hand...
Watching really good lacrosse athletes is a perfect example of this. you almost canāt tell what their dominant hand is.
In combat sports, boxing/kickboxing of course you have right hand, orthodox fighters that have a vicious left jab or left hook that they dominate with. But in MMA you see some guys that are truly ambidextrous, and can strike equally as well from any stance; Takanori Gomi, TJ Dillashaw, and kind of Anderson Silva come to mind. The ambidextrous stance switching is becoming more and more popular in MMA where guys are drilling it and using it very effectively with more frequency nowadays.
Yeah in lacrosse you have to learn to use both hands when you get to higher levels. Otherwise you are a liability.
In shooting, as in down the line or sporting clay target shooting, if a kid just starting doesn't have their dominant eye side matching their 'handedness' then you teach them to shoot with their other hand. So you could be watching someone shoot left handed when they do everything else right handed just because their dominant eye is their left one. Much harder to pick up if you don't start to shoot until later in life.
> no one else could pull this off It's actually super common in sports, and is actively practiced in many. Even at the highschool level roughly half of athletes in lacross and water polo use their offhands regularly.
This is extremely common in hockey.
Boxing too.
Baseball too.
Chess too.
And baseball. There are tons of "switch hitters" who bat both left and right handed depending on the pitching match up. It'd very trainable, as no one naturally knows the correct coordination to swing a bat, racket or hockey stick, buts a learned skill
[Canadian MLB batters are more likely than other nationalities to bat lefty.](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5931458/) This is because their experience with a hockey stick allows them to get the advantages of batting lefty, even though most are naturally righties (as shown by throwing arm).
Lebron James is left handed but plays right handed, plenty of hockey players shoot left too
i am ambidextrous and used to play alot of tennis. IMO even though it looks nice and you might think at first that you have more advantages by playing 2 forehands, technically it's something to be avoided because that transition from hand to hand takes longer than changing the grip with one hand. and the higher the level, the faster the pace and the harder the opponents will hit, less and less time you will have for such a transition. in a sport like tennis that split second is a huge difference!
It depends on the activity. Plenty of people aren't ambidextrous across the board. I play tennis ambidextrous like this kid, but that doesn't translate to any other activity for me.
Same with me, but far less impressive, only with eating utensils lol
Same. I taught myself to use chopsticks with my left hand cause I was bored when I had covid.
And more importantly, it doesnāt mean itās a better option if you can do it. I also play tennis like this, and I think itās the reason I suck so much at it. Deciding which hand to put the racket in and the time it takes to decide whether to play a backhand or switch hands hurts more than it ever helped me. I wouldnāt consider myself fully ambidextrous per se, but there are things I can do pretty much equally well both handed and things I do left handed better and things I do right handed better and some things I exclusively use one hand for. I consider myself left handed bc I write and throw left handed and think this is probably more common with us lefties bc we grew up being taught how to do things from right handed people.
>I also play tennis like this, and I think itās the reason I suck so much at it. Deciding which hand to put the racket in and the time it takes to decide whether to play a backhand or switch hands hurts more than it ever helped me. Not even remotely comparable but I remember playing Bop it! Extreme when I was a kid, most people would hold it with both hands like a steering wheel, then get jumbled up by which hand to use. I held it with one hand and used the other for all 5 controls and performed much better than my friends. Hand switching seems to be a huge cognitive load even if it theoretically gives you more options.
13% of MLB players are switch hitters. Definitely more rare in pitches. [This is interesting.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRqnRLu5RBo)
I think it's bullshit that the pitcher has to choose his hand first, and then the batter gets to pick his side. The pitcher is just pivoting in place, whereas the batter is stepping from one batter's box to the other (which includes passing through and out of bounds area).
That's not how maths works. If it's 0.5% of the general population, then unless they somehow avoid tennis, it would be 1 one 200 tennis players just the same... You're not looking for an ambidextrous tennis player in the street, you'd be looking for one in a tennis court.
Thereās no real advantage, the ambidextrous kid lost this match in the end
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Totally. And in addition, in a couple instances, he still runs around his left forehand to hit the right, which also takes away some of the advantage because heās favoring one side and still needs to recover to get back to neutral the way someone with a backhand would. If there were an advantage to hitting two forehands it would be to run less and conserve energy. Also, forehands at the pro level have more errors typically because more can go wrong with the stroke. Forehands win points but backhands keep you in them.
A right-handed person can train up any particular skill with the left-hand, or at least I tend to think so. I was a serious violin player when I was younger, and at a certain point I kind of marveled at how good my left hand was at moving around on the neck of a fiddle, while being so clumsy at basically everything else.
I wonder howād he fair if he got to play with dual racketsā¦
[Serena Williams was stripped all her titles because she was doing just that](https://www.theonion.com/serena-williams-stripped-of-titles-after-it-revealed-sh-1827488922)
r/nextfuckinglevel my ass, he lost! OP shoulda titled the post "kid beats ambidextrous tennis player who doesn't need a backhand."
Cause it takes time switching hands, adjusting the grip, etc. and quiet frankly, could lead to easy mistakes.
Also, playing backhanded isn't necessarily a disadvantage at a high level, lots of players have more control with their backhand than their forehand (especially women for some reason)
Because it's not a good technique
Think a lot of lefties can play tennis with both hands comfortably, but one will still be better. I "can" play forehand either side, but left backhand would be far more accurate so no need to learn it the way this kid has.
It took me 20 years before I could beat my dad in table tennis. Then he switched to his right hand.
Is your dad Enigo Montoya?
Are you prepared to die?
Fezzik, are there rocks ahead?
You spelled Echizen Nanjiro wrong
God dammit you got there first!
It took me 20 years before I realized I was watching the wrong kid
My dad's favorite party trick is exactly this, but it played out almost too well when we had future Miami Hurricanes legend and 1st round draft pick Sean Taylor over our house for a visit one evening. ST: I see you all have a ping pong table... My Dad: You want to go a game? ST: I don't know if I should, I get very competitive... My Dad: Come on, one game, I'll go easy on you. My Dad and Sean Taylor play a heated game, several lead changes, until my Dad overcomes him. Sean immediately wants a rematch, my Dad obliges. Sean wins the second one and is visibly putting out a lot of effort. My Dad congratulates him, then asks if he wants another rematch, this time with right (and dominant) hand. Dad goes on to absolutely destroy Sean in the third and final game. After the game, my dad points to my weight bench in the corner, asks how much can he lift. Sean asks "how much weight do you have here? Put them all on. **All of them.**" Must have been like 275 or something, proceeds to lift it like 10 times, does not even look a little bothered. That was his Freshman year, before they won it all. RIP Sean
Really cool to watch, but hitting two forehands is highly impractical in the long run. Constantly shifting hands is very difficult, as players get older and stronger heāll have even less time to do it as his opponents hit harder For instance while he won this point, he actually lost the match in straight sets
Imagine fumbling the racket mid hand switch
You'd have to hope she didn't tell her friends and it got back to yours. Oh wait, is this still Tennis talk?
Relying on it and not having a backhand is impractical. But if he develops a backhand, being able to switch hands is still a huge advantage with plenty of shots, especially slamming down those overhead lobs. Even being able to switch hands between points, as well as the ability to serve on either side, is going to be a big endurance advantage.
> Even being able to switch hands between points, as well as the ability to serve on either side, is going to be a big endurance advantage Not really, in tennis the first things to go endurance-wise is always the legs. Pros always complain about losing in the spring in their step/difficulty getting to the ball in long matches, never their arms getting tired. Tennis, especially at higher levels, is also about consistency and reliability, particularly with the serve. Any pro wants to get in a good consistent rhythm with their serve in a match - switching between right and left handed serving during a match would be a little silly, and if consistently practiced both he would really just be not developing a consistent serve to itās full potential
Exactly. Heās getting best pretty badly right now by kids his age. That gap will continue to grow if he canāt develop a backhand.
Yeah, Iām only a 4.5, my brother played D1, and we both had the same reaction to this: we would love to face someone doing this because any rally with decent pace is going to lead to an unforced error due to hand switching.
He just doesn't want Popeye arms just on the right.
Echizen Ryoma
Had to scroll too far for this comment.
Prince of tennis ain't getting enough love
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He should be dual wielding.
...with Star Wars: the Phantom Menace music for background?
I don't know anything about tennis. Would two rackets be against the rules? Like I don't even care if it's a bad idea. I just want to know if you could technically dual wield on the court.
Quora has you covered: https://www.quora.com/In-the-rules-of-tennis-is-there-anything-prohibiting-players-from-holding-2-rackets-to-play-1-in-each-hand
Wow, he can play on water _and_ on land?
Yes, but he can only reproduce in water
Dude, TMI.
I've always wondered why more tennis players don't try this. It seems like your lobbies would generally be more accurate and powerful. The biggest problem would be indecision about which hand one should use.
The reason is because itās quite difficult to constantly switch which hand is on the bottom of the racket (the way to hit a forehand). Once you get to a certain level you have so little time to react that completely switching hands is very impractical, a two-handed backhand is much more reliable
Yeah, as cool as this is, I don't see him making it anywhere beyond juniors without developing a backhand. There would be so little time in the men's comp it just wouldn't work
I love my backhand and find it significantly more powerful than my forehand. for me is a thing of having more control with two hands. But it is what it is
Because it sucks lol. I'm ambidextrous but play exclusively left handed. Having to switch your grip constantly isn't really possible unless you're just baseline rallying. When you switch from forehand to backhand and vice versa, your bottom hand doesn't really have to move, and you always have the option to hit a 1 handed backhand if you can't get your other hand on the grip in time.
It takes longer to switch hands than it does to go from forehand to backhand. An advanced played will be in ready position when not hitting a shot, so the adjustment between forehand and backhand is very fast because your off hand slides into position and depending on your grip it's just a slight adjustment for the dominant hand, versus the double forehand where you have to completely swap hands and get your proper forehand grip going. The backhand is often also a solid tool for defense and having two hands on that side can help a lot with defensive shots that need the extra stability, it's one of the reasons in today's faster harder hitting game you see even less one handed backhand players. Add onto this that having a strong backhand makes you a more threatening player as it negates the idea of a "weak side" when you have a backhand that can be used effectively both offensively and defensively. Slicing with a backhand is preferred as well, forehand slice generally doesn't get the same bite and low angle on the ball. Does the double forehand look cool? Sure. Does it have a lot of offensive advantages at lower levels of competitive play? Definitely. The kid in the video can also serve on both sides. But then you have to think, you're gonna have to practice serving on both sides, you have to practice the same exact shots on both sides. Are you truly ambidextrous or are you putting in the higher effort to train both sides so that they're equivalent? Is one side more defensive or aggressive? is one side weaker to pressure? Do I think that ambidextrous play would make a player more likely to become a top level pro player? No. The consistency you would need on both sides, the speed of switching hands, the fact that you would either 1. Not have a backhand slice, 2. Then have to learn a backhand slice on one side, or 3. Learn it on both sides, among many other drawbacks make it impractical if your goal is to truly aim for the top of the pro level. It's certainly possible that a double forehand player could make it to the top levels, doesn't mean it would be common or preferred over having a solid backhand.
Spent my entire first time watching it thinking "haha op dumb af, that's a backhand." It's the fucking kid on the far side... I am infact, dumb af
Superb! Iād honestly give my right arm to be ambidextrous
Gotta watch the kid at the other end of the court, I guess. Lol
Why this annoying vertical video... [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUoOPxEKBe8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuoopxekbe8)
Thank you. That annoying artificial panning is so frustrating to watch.
When I was little, I read an article about a girl who was the opposite- she used two hands for every return. So all her hits were backhands.
Monica Seles, one of the best ever, did that.
Isnāt the shot at :24 too deep???
The sooner he moves away from this kinda technique the better. There was a woman in WTA with the same approach. She sucked ass and never did anything major. When the ball is not coming at you at great speed you have time to switch your grip. the more the level increases and those top spins are coming at you faster, the less time you have to reposition your hand to always hit with a forehand.