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What determines someone's natural direction they spin in

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YungTabitha
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So I'm just wondering why some people's natural rotations are right or left. I've heard it has to do with what leg is stronger than the other. I've also heard that what side your dominant eye is on determines which way you spin
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NinetyFour
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It's always the opposite of your fap hand.
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Rparr
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I've always thought it was whichever side you started with and practiced the most early on.
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e.will
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for MOST people it has to do with over-arching dominance. If you're right-handed, chances are you'll spin left, and vice-versa for lefties. That's why more people spin left naturally -- there are more right-hand dominant people out there.

There are always exceptions, but normally that's how it flows. Switch hits are a bit up in the air. That has more to do with the shoulder you look over naturally. Say you are right handed but skate goofy: chances are you learned switch right before switch left.
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Mr.Bishop
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It depends on which phase of the moon cycle you were born under.
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Mr.Huck
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The night you were conceived; if your dad was on top, then you will spin counter clockwise; if your mom was on top, you will spin clockwise; if they changed position, you can spin both ways; if they were doing anal, you are Steve Stepp.
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skiierman
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Annnd there it is, now the world knows that I'm not pretending to act like a retard.

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LoathesRaisins
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I spin left on jumps, but spin right on boxes
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stupendous-man
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I'm left handed and spin left /claim
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tcurle
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I hate when people can't 270 on when they spin comfortably and land comfortable foot forward.
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jerm
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Amazing. This is what we would call a "drip baby". You can probably figure out why.
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Karkoskier
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The angle of your dangle divided by the heat of your meat plus your shoes size minus your weight all multiplied by pi. Then find the square root of all that and subtract the amount of time it takes for you to get a boner. If you get a negative number you spin to the left naturally, and if you get a positive number you spin to the right naturally. Leaned that in precalc senior year.
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wasatch_rat
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right handed and i spin right. its just whatever you started with and felt most natural
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Holte
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I just did this math in my head, and it is ASTONISHING that there are skiers who spin to the right. Either there are some dudes with huge feet or very, very cold meat.
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CashmereCat
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Right handed, spin right shoulder back, grind natural left foot forward, and spin left shoulder back while going switch.
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Stose
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Here's something I find weird. Most people I know wakeboard with a different foot forward than the foot forward when they grind a rail
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hyllengren
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Another weird thing. In bmx, most people spin left
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Mr.Sloth
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Wait do people normally spin right? I spin left for everything...
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Aladeen
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I did your math out and got -495.1869.

I do indeed spin left, so you sir are a genius. And if you do spin right you're a fucking G
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Miomo
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It has to do with which hand is dominant. You're just the exception.
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Karkoskier
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I spin to the right and I approve this message.
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Stickity
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don't bother trying to figure out a reasoning behind which way you spin
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WasnatchMonster
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its the same physics either way, so I vary my spin direction with the approach to a particular feature and the trick I would be attempting
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JAH_TAHOE
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((L*D)+(W/G))/(A^2)
Length times Diameter plus Weight over Girth divided by Angle of the tip squared
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Tribal_Seeds
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Its whatever feels the most comfortable when to first do it. end of story.
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Balbertt
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In rodeos I spin right, but in normal spins like corks and shit I spin left. And I am right handed.
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hyllengren
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I meant right. On another note, i'm retarded
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rockersteez
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Most people spin the opposite of their front foot.


I'm better at spinning left on a tramp but spin better right on a bike. It was a little weird at first but it's much easier to spin right if your left foot is in front and left if your right is in front.

And to thread, most people spin the opposite way of their dominant side.
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SamSandmire
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As a collegiate and club gymnastics coach, I always wondered the same thing. Most of the skiers I have observed naturally spin left, but in gymnastics, it's close to 50/50. One study I saw "found no significant correlations between twist (spin) direction and hand or eye dominance" in gymnasts (Brown, et al, 1983). What continues to amaze me is that great freeskiers can spin in BOTH directions and make them LOOK natural. Competitive gymnast do not do this, probably because it is SO FREAKIN' HARD and the gymnastics scoring system does not reward it. Ralph R. Barrett (1999) found that kids who did basic gymnastics-type skills (especially skills where kids cross their midsection and move (spin) in both directions) scored significantly higher on reading tests than those who did not. When Barrett switched the groups & taught the lower-scoring kids these same moves, their reading scores improved significantly. Barrett postulated that this might be due to the stimulation of both sides of the brain (which is necessary to spin the opposite way). Moral of the story? Spin unnatty & get smart!
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elinde
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that's fucking rad
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SunburntSquad
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lol
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