I'm really not an ambidextrious person, so this is kind of weird. I'm right handed, but it always feels better to have my left foot forward in a trackstand. Then this morning on my way to pick up some Jameson, I'm cruising and randomly skipping just for practice. I've been trying to practice the skips more, but since I hardly ever actually have to use them, I don't.

What I noticed was that my right leg is the better one for stopping - I was skidding the back wheel with that one alone. I didn't even need to lift up/unweight the rear wheel to do it, straight up in the saddle. After 5 or 6 random skips on the way to the liq, I realized that it was always with the pedals in the same position, and always the right leg doing the digging. So I tried to do it with the left foot in the same position, and found myself detached from my left pedal (I do need new cleats, they should be here soon) and I'm kind of wondering why. What happened is that I couldn't get enough back pressure, and the pedal kept moving away from where I was stopping my foot.

My left leg is stronger, it's the one that controls all the balance in the trackstand. That really works the muscle on the back of your thigh (at least, that's the one I feel getting worked) which is the same one you use to stop.

Anyone else have different legs? Or am I just kind of crazy using one leg to stop and the other to trackstand? Are there bad consequences to training the two differently, as I seem to have been doing?