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Warrior Awareness: The Killing Hand

RESEARCH INDICATES that approximately 30 percent of us delegate tasks between hands, the socalled ambidextrous. But if you dig deeper into this, you’ll find that it’s not true equality. Even this 30 percent will show a hand preference for fine-motor-skill work.

I’m a righty who boxes southpaw, signs my name with my right hand, works the Bowie knife and tomahawk with my right hand, but finds that my left hand is more suited for gun work. I’m in that 30-percent twilight zone, but when I’m confronted with a new task or when my skills deteriorate during stress training

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