10.30.06
Bowling
Temporarily losing the facilities of my right hand can be quite frustrating for the days to day life if I didn’t train and prepare for just such an uncomfortable event. Now I am very happy that I took some time to learn useless skills like single handed left hand typing and left handed chopstick techniques. A great afternoon bowling with great company is totally worth having my right hand incapacitated for a while.
The plus side is I finally discovered a sport that can increase the girth of my wrist. Why would I want to increase the girth of my wrist? I have no idea, it’s the same question I asked when I tried to learn how to use chopsticks with my left hand. Totally useless, but eventually I will find some application for it.
One of those day to day idiocy that I enjoy so much.
Rob said,
October 31, 2006 at 3:36 am
You never know when knowing something might come in handy (no pun intended). Also, making sure you learn something new everyday then you’ll never get bored of life!!
Jeff said,
November 1, 2006 at 8:29 am
Does the exercise really increase wrist girth? I always thought that wrists were mainly tendons/ligaments. Golf exercises strengthen wrist tendon/ligaments, but there’s no muscle to build on there.
And learning to hold chopsticks with the left hand is like insurance or patents; one of those things you may never need, but when you do, it’s very handy.
Causalien said,
November 2, 2006 at 7:36 pm
Rob: It’s a trade off between Jack of all trade and a celebrity in a small circle. To each our own goal.
Jeff: Yes, my research of human anatomy led to the conclusion it’s doable, please refer to the new pics for the muscles along the wrist. These are some of the muscles that felt sore after my first bowling session. It depends on how you throw though. Some get sore muscles, some get sore hands. I get sore wrist and hand from spinning the ball a lot.