{"id":974,"date":"2018-02-06T19:22:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T18:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/?p=974"},"modified":"2018-02-07T20:47:02","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T19:47:02","slug":"spinning-direction-fortsattning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/spinning-direction-fortsattning\/","title":{"rendered":"Spinning direction part 2: Poll results and physiology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an earlier\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/spinning-direction-part-1-self-study\/\">post<\/a>, I started to investigate spinning direction by looking at my own spinning with my left (dominant) and right hand. The thought came up after I had had to switch hands due to a cramp in my left thumb base while <a href=\"https:\/\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/learning-new-things-medieval-style-spinning\/\">learning to spin in-hand style<\/a>. In this post, we take a look at poll results and the physiology of spindle spinning.<\/p>\n<h1>Spinning poll<\/h1>\n<p>I wanted more than my own experience, so last week I made a spinning <a href=\"https:\/\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/poll-which-is-your-spinning-hand\/\">poll<\/a>. I want to thank all of you who answered it. I got 155 answers and quite an interesting result.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to know with which hand you spin clockwise on any kind of spindle. Here are some spinning poll results:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>About 80 % of the spinners are righthanded. That goes roughly hand in hand with handedness in the world.<\/li>\n<li>Of the righthanded, about three quarters spin clockwise with their right hand and one quarter with their left hand.<\/li>\n<li>About 7 % of are lefthanded.<\/li>\n<li>About two thirds of the lefthanded spinners spin clockwise with their left hand and one third with their right hand.<\/li>\n<li>About 15 % answered something else. These answers were mostly about different spinning hands for different kinds of spinning and ambidexterity. Some of the answers were about spinning counter-clockwise. I had asked for spinning hand for clockwise spinning, meaning <em>when<\/em> you spin clockwise, but I wasn&#8217;t clear enough on this. I&#8217;ll be more specific next time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>The basics: Pushing and pulling<\/h1>\n<p>So far, we have established this:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Spinning clockwise with your right hand means that the fingers\u00a0<em>pull<\/em>\u00a0the spindle into your hand.<\/li>\n<li>Spinning clockwise with your left hand means that the fingers\u00a0<em>push<\/em>\u00a0the spindle out of your hand.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The spinning poll results showed that<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>three quarters of the righthanded and one third of the lefthanded spinners <em>pull<\/em> the spindle and<\/li>\n<li>one quarter of the righthanded and two thirds of the lefthanded spinners <em>push<\/em> the spindle.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h1>The physiology<\/h1>\n<p>I used to spin clockwise with my left (dominant) hand. Lately, I have started to learn to spin with my right hand because I experienced a cramp when pushing the spindle clockwise with my left hand. I wanted to know why I got this pain.<\/p>\n<p>I talked to \u00c5sa, an occupational therapist who is also a spinner. I asked her what it is that gives me a cramp at the base of my thumb when I spin clockwise with my left hand. She explained that we have more muscles governing the movements pulling inward than pushing outward. More muscles means that <em>the strain on each individual muscle is less than if there are fewer muscles<\/em>. Evolutionarily we need more muscles to grab than to let go. This phenomenon even seems to overcome the fact that I am a leftie and probably stronger in my left hand. Let&#8217;s look at it from above:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kdXyllLihWI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>My left hand thumb seems to move slightly more than my right hand thumb. The first and second fingers also seem to be working more \u2013 pushing \u2013 with my left hand. It looks more strained, and perhaps the movement is a bit bigger than with my right hand. Spinning with my right hand \u2013 pulling \u2013 \u00a0looks easier, despite the fact that it is my weaker hand.<\/p>\n<h1>What does this mean for spinning?<\/h1>\n<p>62 % of the spinnes who answered the poll seem to be pulling the spindle, which from a physiological perspective seems to be better for the hand than pushing. At the same time, there are different amounts of strain on the hand in different types of spinning, as I have been looking at <a href=\"https:\/\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/spinning-direction-part-1-self-study\/\">earlier<\/a>.\u00a0When spinning in-hand style there is quite a lot of strain on your hand since the spinner is holding the spindle <em>and<\/em> twirling it almost all the time. In the other end of the spectrum, there is suspended spindle spinning when you need to wait quite a while between twirls, and oftentimes you roll the spindle shaft up or down your thigh instead of twirling it with your fingers.<\/p>\n<p>If you do experience pain, take a look at how you are spinning. Are you pushing or pulling? Is it time to make a change of hands or spinning direction? Either way, make sure you feel comfortable when you spin.<\/p>\n<p>Does this make sense to you? Have you experienced pain when you spin? If so, have you been pushing or pulling? Have you tried to change spinning hands or spinning direction? Share your thoughts in the comments section!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an earlier\u00a0post, I started to investigate spinning direction by looking at my own spinning with my left (dominant) and right hand. The thought came up after I had had to switch hands due to a cramp in my left thumb base while learning to spin in-hand style. In this post, we take a look &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/spinning-direction-fortsattning\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spinning direction part 2: Poll results and physiology&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[77],"tags":[70,16],"class_list":["post-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spinning-techniques","tag-spindle","tag-spinning"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Spinning direction part 2: Poll results and physiology - Josefin Waltin spinner<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In this post I present the result of a recent spinning direction poll. 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