Many of you may not know this but we all have a dominant side of our body, and it’s not always the side that your writing hand is on. In fact the thing that determines what side of your body is dominant is which eye you feel most comfortable aiming with. The reason I say aiming is because I used to be into archery, which is when you shoot at targets with a bow and arrow. The first thing they teach you is how to find your dominant eye. What you do is pick out a target and then, one at a time, close an eye and whichever one the target stays still for is your dominant eye. My dominant eye is my left, but I learned how to write with my right. I overcame nature, oops.

Okay, so how does this fix your problem? Well this dominance runs all through your body. One of your eyes is dominant, one of your arms is dominant, on of your legs is dominant. This has a lot to do with which one of your hands you are most comfortable with "leading". Your leading hand is the hand that naturally hits first when the strings are chasing each other. For example: you are doing wraps on your right bicep.... do the strings go (right left, right left) or do they go (left right, left right)? The string that hits first is the leading string or leading side.

Now that you know yours look to see if the person in the vid you are watching has the same or a different leading side. Chances are the person who you find it difficult to copy from has a different leading side. Personally I have been teaching a kid at my school how to string and his leading side is his left, mine is my right. So when I teach him how to: go from wraps into weaves, do crossovers, do catches, anything really; I mirror it on purpose so that he can pick it up faster. He doesn’t know that I do this but that’s ok. Comfort with your trailing side comes with time.

I hope some of you take the time to read this, I think it’s interesting and it will help everyone when it comes to learning new moves.

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