La lateralidad es un fenómeno ampliamente estudiado y cuyo origen es aún motivo de amplias controversias entre quienes le adjudican una determinación genética y un establecimiento desde los primeros momentos del desarrollo y quienes conceden un papel determinante a las circunstancias del medio y al aprendizaje. Puesto que ambos puntos de vista no tienen por qué ser excluyentes, el deporte es un campo que puede aportar un conocimiento importante sobre la modificación de las destrezas laterales mediante el entrenamiento.

Laterality is a widely studied phenomenon , whose origin is still the subject of extensive controversy between those who awarded a genetic determination and establishment from the early stages of development and those who granted a role to environmental circumstances and learning. Since both views need not be mutually exclusive, sports is a field that can provide important knowledge about the modification of lateral predominance through training. Even a phenomenon known as “bilateral transferring” has been described. It is that the training of the nonpreferred member can get an improvement in the performance of the preferred member which has not been trained.