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A question about foot placment..
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Sat Mar 04, 2006 1:32 pmby HitAndRun
My question is: should your strong foot be on the back of the board? becasue my strong foot is my left and i place my right foot on the back of my board (im natural\regular foot) ive felt its the best for me when i skated a few years ago, I doubt i can surf goofy after all this time.
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Sat Mar 04, 2006 3:18 pmby Dec
Lean forward..like a tree falling. Which ever foot goes forward naturally is your back foot.
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Sat Mar 04, 2006 3:32 pmby HitAndRun
ok i tried that and strangly my right leg went forward, this is weird because when i play soccer or even duckdive, i do that with my left foot
i think my legs are twisted or something
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Sat Mar 04, 2006 3:43 pmby Dec
Wow..never heard this before!
Well jump on a skateboard, see which position is the most comfortable!?
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Sat Mar 04, 2006 4:37 pmby HitAndRun
as i said when i used to skate my right leg was at the back and left leg infront (just like on a surfboard) and i used to push the skate with my right leg, some weird stuff i know
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Sat Mar 04, 2006 5:41 pmby Dec
Stick with that placement then! Maybe you can just use both, thats pretty cool
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Sat Mar 04, 2006 6:10 pmby HitAndRun
hehe next time i go out im gonna try to surf goofy footed
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Mon Mar 06, 2006 12:58 amby trails surfing
that's what i would do if i was unsure. just switch it up and if that feels better then go with it.
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Mon Mar 06, 2006 2:06 pmby Driftingalong
hiphopdec wrote:Lean forward..like a tree falling. Which ever foot goes forward naturally is your back foot.
I'm not trying to start an argument, but I heard the opposite...
I'm goofyfoot, and when I tried to do the pop-up regular I would end up facing the nose with both feet next to eachother
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I think my tendency to want to put my right foot forward is too strong to try and surf regular with out serious amounts of practice and reconditioning.
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Mon Mar 06, 2006 2:23 pmby drowningbitbybit
Driftingalong wrote:hiphopdec wrote:Lean forward..like a tree falling. Which ever foot goes forward naturally is your back foot.
I'm not trying to start an argument, but I heard the opposite...
Yup. Its the opposite
The best one Ive heard is to run along a slippery floor and then skid - whichever foot is forward... is your forward foot
But seeing as it'll take about thirty seconds in the water to work it out, thats probably the way to go...
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Sun Mar 19, 2006 9:16 amby tazman76
I skateboarded goofy foot for a long time and when i took up surfing i found that when i popped up, my left foot naturally went forward putting me in the natural foot position. This made problems in that my whole body positioning was trained as a goofy footer. eventually retrained my self skating as a natural footer to get body/foot positioning right. took a while but not a prob now.