How many left handed skydivers are there?

[adrenalinejunki 0]

A few freinds of mine and myself started noticing that most skydivers at our dropzone are left handed. I was just curious as to how many left handed jumpers there are compared to how many right handed jumpers. This is just one of those things that would be interesting to know.

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[nightjumps 1]

Whichever hand deploys the pilotchute is right. If the main canopy mals, then the right handle is right, then the handle that's left is right.

[councilman24 37]

can use both ... for skydiving. At one time in the early eighties, before handles were standardized I ordered a right hand throw out, left hand cutaway, and right hand reserve. Instead they sent me a complete left handed rig with everything reversed, including left hand throwout. At the time I also had a right hand throwout rig. So for a while I was jumping a left hand throw out, a right hand throw out, and a right hand ripcord rig interchangably. Only started reaching the wrong way once.

I'm old for my age.
Terry Urban
D-8631
FAA DPRE

[Orchid 0]

I'm a lefty by nature....however can write with both hands.

"Love is doing small things with great love."

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[Peej 0]

I'm a right hander but i swing a bat left handed and kick left footed

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[AndyAnderson 0]

I am a lefty. Only 1 in 10 of the population is a lefty but that is growing as the prejudice against the left hand diminishes. Astronauts are 250% above the expected level for left handedness.
Usally if someone notices you are left handed they are also a lefty, right handers seldom notice.
Andy

[pccoder 0]

From the results of this poll, it would appear that more than half the skydive community (on this website) can at least use their left hand. Interesting statistics!!

Of course, it could mean nothing more than "more than half the skydive community that visits this website can use their left hand"

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[AndyAnderson 0]

Or left handers feel this poll applies to them so they vote but right handers do not care and see nothing special about left handedness.
Go ask a random 100 and you should not get more than 20 lefties.

[pccoder 0]

or we are both wrong and just think we are right

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[DrunkMonkey 0]

I'm also a "southpaw."

We're also much more likely to be involved in industrial accidents, due to right-handed designs of heavy machinery.

I hated desks in college, there were never enough left ones.

I hate writing in pencil/gel ink. Always puts a big smear on the edge of my hand...

Left:
Write
Fly a C-172
Shoot
Eat
Most everything else

Right:
PC Mouse
5-speed transmission
Rig Hackey

[Dougjumper 0]

Yeah you need both hands in Skydiving. One
to do the hand toss thingy and the other
to hold yourself if all else fails...

Sorry just had to get that in...

[skydiverbc 0]

*shakes head* ..... i am a lefty by nature, but learned and prefer to write right handed.

brad, i am gunna maul ya when i see ya goof ball

[Andrewwhyte 1]

I think your poll has a small self selection bias.