Friday, April 20, 2012

Active for Leftys

Hello, I searched the forum and suprised this hasn't been addressed. I by the way am loving the EA Sport Active workout. It's a great break to the day. My wife however, tried it but she is Left-handed. It seems that alot of the racquet workouts are for rightys only. Are there any other Lefty's out there with this problem or is she just not coordinated and blaming the software? Looking for input.
thank you!
I want her to like it as much as I do.|||The EA More Workouts game has squash and it allows you to chose which hand you want to use. She might like it better.|||I sent a message to tech support about this and got the same lame response as suggested here "well in squash you can choose left handed."
Your wife is not uncoordinated. She, like me is probably very annoyed that the game assumes everyone is right-handed. Being forced to strap everything on the right and hold the remote in the right hand is a pain and as for squash, in order for it to work it requires unhitching yourself from the leg thing, putting it on the left leg and then doing the workout and then switching back for the rest of the workout. It's similar to being forced to write left-handed if you're right. You can do it but it's not comfortable and it's not as coordinated -- besides that, a leftie shouldn't have to do that.
Also, as a true squash and tennis player, the movement for the lunges in squash aren't even correct because the left handed person doesn't lunge RIGHT for a backhand, we step right for balance and power for we're swinging on the opposite and less strong side of our bodies so we're more compact to generate power needed for the backhand and we lunge LEFT, at least I do. So it's not just the hand it's the entire leg and body movement and the movement is totally unnatural to a left-handed person.|||Although there doesn't seem to be entries in this feedback and support section forum - I think if you do a search for left handed in the general discussion forum your wife will find lots of company. There were several discussions on the topic of PT not having "left handed" as an option. Some people did find create ways around it. EA did listen to the feedback from users on this and offered the left handed option in MW for the squash. Not being left handed myself, I can't judge how well it works. Hopefully, the new release due out this fall will also continue to address the left handed issue.

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