Switchin hands while De Shaving?

Well, I tried it tonight, just for the halibut.

At first I tried the trick of miming the act of shaving with my empty dominant hand (which has the muscle memory for it) and mirroring the motions with my razor hand. This works for, say signing your name backwards on a chalkboard. It didn't work for shaving. Besides, sometimes I need the extra hand for stretching skin, lifting my earlobe, etc.



But something that really did help was to pay close attention to when and where I would've changed my grip (reverse or normal) on the opposite side of my face with my dominant hand. Without that I would've kept on going with the wrong grip at times, which is doubly awkward.

Well, I tried it tonight, just for the halibut.

At first I tried the trick of miming the act of shaving with my empty dominant hand (which has the muscle memory for it) and mirroring the motions with my razor hand. This works for, say signing your name backwards on a chalkboard. It didn't work for shaving. Besides, sometimes I need the extra hand for stretching skin, lifting my earlobe, etc.



But something that really did help was to pay close attention to when and where I would've changed my grip (reverse or normal) on the opposite side of my face with my dominant hand. Without that I would've kept on going with the wrong grip at times, which is doubly awkward.

That grip thing is strange to me, without watching the other hand do it.
   Kind of a test run for the team.

I shave with both hands every time.  I believe that many shavers who have used a straight razor will use both hands.
Actually, It is easy to get used to. I think you may achieve better results if you use both hands.

I’ve been thinking about finding the angle on a DE razor and maybe my thoughts might apply to off handed shaving too.  

There are some things we do either by feel or by muscle memory such as tying a bowtie. If you know how to tie a bowtie then you know that it’s complicated if you try to do it visually in the mirror. You tie it without looking by feel and only look in the mirror when you’re at the fiddling stage to make it look right. I was noticing that I sometimes had trouble finding the right angle with a new ir just different razor when looking at it in the mirror but when I was shaving the furthest back part of my neck which takes the razor out of sight, I had no trouble finding the angle. It made me think of muscle memory and feel and made me think about my son and his basketball shot. He played Canadian university basketball and we spent a lot of time together in the gym putting up shots and working on various skills. He worked with an amazing shooting coach that I called the shot whisperer. One of the things this coach would do was when shots weren’t dropping or he’d miss more than a couple in a row was to return to the FT line and shoot some FTs. Known distance etc but often he would also have him shoot the FTs with his eyes closed. Relying completely on muscle memory and taking vision right out if it. He mostly made those shots. It also worked well in game situations although coaches generally preferred their players to keep their eyes open. It’s interesting because this same shooting coach used to say that you shoot with your legs but you score with your eyes. When a player is having trouble with his shot it’s usually because of something mechanical caused by fatigue or some other distraction. By having the player shoot with his eyes closed and removing visual cues you focus the player on the feel of the mechanical act of shooting without distractions. It works.  So, maybe if you try closing your eyes and focusing on feel and muscle memory you can improve your offhand shaving. Wax on. Wax off.

I can easily switch hands with a sword (or use two swords at once), but I really have to go slow with a DE razor.

Clearly a student of Myamoto Musashi

i hope you'll totaly recover in few weeks....
All my bests...
Gianguido.

i hope you'll totaly recover in few weeks....
All my bests...
Gianguido.

Thank you

I shave with both hands every time.  I believe that many shavers who have used a straight razor will use both hands.
Actually, It is easy to get used to. I think you may achieve better results if you use both hands.

You might be right, a person might be able to get better results.

I need more practice using my non dominant hand(left) 

I'm a head shaver. I typically switch hands during my head shaves, but I tend to use my dominant hand for neck / face shaving.