How smart is your right foot?

[chieffy]

got this from a mail:

Can you trick your foot? How smart is your right foot? This is so funny
that it will boggle your mind. And you will keep trying to see if you
can outsmart your foot--but you can't.

While sitting, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise
circles. Now, while doing this, draw the number "6" in the air with your
right hand. Your foot will change direction!

[hagiber]

OO nga ano!!! Galing galing :-)

[silver_corolla]

....and there's nothing you can do about it.

This time, lift your left foot off the floor and make counter-clockwise circles with it.
At the same time, draw the number "9" in the air with you left hand.

Actually that is one example to test your Left and Right Brain.

[stinkaboy]

hahaha ang galing...jsut tried it

[silver_corolla]

Added bonus: it makes your coworkers look at you really oddly. :bwahaha:

[baiskee]

Originally posted by silver_corolla
....and there's nothing you can do about it.

This time, lift your left foot off the floor and make counter-clockwise circles with it.
At the same time, draw the number "9" in the air with you left hand.

Actually that is one example to test your Left and Right Brain.

aba..di nagpatalo ang left foot.

[jim]

pinagtawanan ako dito ng staff ko hehehehe. pero minsan kaya naman di sumusunod yung right foot........

[knicks1204]

waaahhh.. ang hirap.. heheh... kailangan siguro i-train ang brain... heheh...:bwahaha:

[silver_corolla]

This is like the trick where you point your index fingers at each other in front of you and try and make a clockwise circle with one hand and a counterclockwise circle with the other. Now go faster. Faster. Chances are that one of your hands switched directions.

I've found that how you think about the problem helps; if instead of thinking about it as two fingers each drawing their own circles you think about it as ONE circle that each finger is drawing half of, from top to bottom and back again, you may find it easier to do. There seems to be some kind of 'linking' phenomenon - I can't keep two independent motions going at once unless I can 'link' them mentally into one idea of motion. Not that that's very clear, but it's as clear as I can put it.

Similarly, if the trick is to make your foot do clockwise circles and your hand do counterclockwise ones, if you think about them as 'linked' but opposite, then it should be easier to pull off.

Has no one invetigated these things? There's clearly some kind of mind-body limitation being run up against.

[niky]

It's just the way you're built. These are well known limitations of the brain.

This is the reason, for example, why phone numbers are broken down thus:

736-31-21, because your short term memory can only hold three to four figures at a time, thus instead of
seven-three-six-three-one-two-one

you think of it as
seventhirtysix thirtyone twentyone

we're so easy to fool.

[wac3]

tried this na. after 5 tries i finally made it!!! kaya rin naman eh. it takes practice lang.

[kiper]

nakakainis.

[mazdamazda]

hahahaha!!! nahuli ko yung right foot ko in the act of "changing" from going clockwise to counter-clockwise!!! :D

[tagalnasaabroad]

this thread reminds me of many mysterious things in life..

di ba me famous song sina simon & garfunkel..?

'yong "what a wonderful world.."

sabi nila dont know much about this & that..pero alam naman daw nila one plus one..kaya what a wonderful2 world this could be..!

..tuloy ang practice sa right/left foot..herhehreherher..

[silver_corolla]

You already have figured out that it happens because "6" is a counter-clockwise spiral and your hand overrides your foot.

I'm sure there's some complex neural pathway explanation for it. Someone in my weblog mentioned that certain yoga maneuvers where you have to spread your toes wide apart are best done while also spreading your fingers: your toes follow suit. ;)

[NightRock]

hahahah para ko sira dito... hirap i control

[van_wilder]

oo nga ano... hirap eh... makukuha rin yan sa practice... papagawa ko nga yan sa mga kaibigan ko...