[CoachKandSportsguy]

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Abstract
In 1896, the First Modern Olympic Games was held in Athens, Greece. During this event the athletes were required to run clockwise during the track events. This was met with much complaint from the athletes. It was because of these complaints that the IOC then gathered in 1913 and set the current anticlockwise rule. We run counterclockwise because everything in nature tends towards counterclockwise motion. That spectator will perceive the runners as moving left to right-the same direction our eyes move when we read. The human body is slightly heavier than the right because of the heart and when running anticlockwise, the body would tend to very slightly incline towards the left, which could be an advantage while running anticlockwise most people are right hand/leg dominant. Moving counterclockwise we have a better control and move faster. Position of the center of foot pressure during balance tests was correlated with the turning score.

[Stu from NYC]

As a lefthander think we should move to the left

[retiredguy123]

I think a better reason is that, if you didn't, you would lose the race.

[CoachKandSportsguy]

Originally Posted by retiredguy123

I think a better reason is that, if you didn't, you would lose the race.

[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

As a lefthander think we should move to the left

You're a Lefty?

That explains soooo much!

P.S. I'm a lefty as well...

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by JMintzer

You're a Lefty?

That explains soooo much!

P.S. I'm a lefty as well...

Figures

[MrChip72]

Clockwise grocery store layouts just feel wrong. Like the ALDI in Wildwood.

[retiredguy123]

Originally Posted by JMintzer

You're a Lefty?

That explains soooo much!

P.S. I'm a lefty as well...

I'm also a lefty. Lefties are smarter than righties.

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by retiredguy123

I'm also a lefty. Lefties are smarter than righties.

Still a right handed world though

[Two Bills]

Originally Posted by retiredguy123

I'm also a lefty. Lefties are smarter than righties.

My dear wife was born a lefty, but her school would not let her write with left hand.
They tied the left arm to her side to stop her using that hand.
The main reason they did this back then, was all writing was pen and ink, and lefties made a mess smudging the wet ink.
Mr Biro changed all that barbaric nonsense.
Consequently, she is now ambidextrous, very smart, and of course always right!

[Stu from NYC]

My mother in law was born a lefty and she was mDe to turn right.

Did not do her any favors

[CoachKandSportsguy]

Originally Posted by MrChip72

Clockwise grocery store layouts just feel wrong. Like the ALDI in Wildwood.

Interesting!~ I never connected the concept of circular direction with a feeling of difference/weirdness. . . .

I guess marketing at Aldi either doesn't exist or all came from south of the equator, where the world lives upside down. . .

[LeRoySmith]

Originally Posted by retiredguy123

I'm also a lefty. Lefties are smarter than righties.

They're more humble too 😁

[ThirdOfFive]

Originally Posted by LeRoySmith

They're more humble too 😁

Yes. Of course.

AND in their "right" minds.

[ThirdOfFive]

Originally Posted by CoachKandSportsguy

Notice

Abstract
In 1896, the First Modern Olympic Games was held in Athens, Greece. During this event the athletes were required to run clockwise during the track events. This was met with much complaint from the athletes. It was because of these complaints that the IOC then gathered in 1913 and set the current anticlockwise rule. We run counterclockwise because everything in nature tends towards counterclockwise motion. That spectator will perceive the runners as moving left to right-the same direction our eyes move when we read. The human body is slightly heavier than the right because of the heart and when running anticlockwise, the body would tend to very slightly incline towards the left, which could be an advantage while running anticlockwise most people are right hand/leg dominant. Moving counterclockwise we have a better control and move faster. Position of the center of foot pressure during balance tests was correlated with the turning score.

Interesting.

A few days ago I read an article about something similar that got me thinking. Aircraft carriers use a lefthanded (counterclockwise) pattern for aircraft landing on them; the reason being that pilots are just more comfortable turning left than right. As a private pilot myself I know that flying a lefthand pattern is far more comfortable for me than for the times I've encountered airports that use a righthanded (clockwise) pattern. Holds true on a motorcycle as well: it is more comfortable to turn left, especially at higher speeds, than right.

But--is it more comfortable because we do it more? Or do we do it more because it is more comfortable?