Time to switch styles?

[icetime]

Actually I'm goofy footed but I tend to do both stances depending on the waves

Either you have a very rare talent or a very big problem you'll need to address. When you pop up, is your belly button facing the front of the board usually ?

Not at all, my belly button is facing 45 degrees the direction I'm going, it's much of a problem since I almost always pop in the same stance unless a wave is closing in on my side and I know I won't make it facing that direction

[icetime]

Actually I'm goofy footed but I tend to do both stances depending on the waves

Either you have a very rare talent or a very big problem you'll need to address. When you pop up, is your belly button facing the front of the board usually ?

No it's not, it faces about 45 degrees from the nose

[jaffa1949]

It was the board, it was slippery as hell but I got a hang of it after 20 minutes and surfed unbroken waves just fine without nose diving, so it was definitely the foamie the cause of the nose diving and not my paddling.

Have a true listen to what the guys are advising you and WAX your board
When you said you caught green waves, did you go across the face or straight in
SO, get of the foamie permanently have a good amount of time on the hard board and apply what is being offered , stop arguing for your limitations, we all went through the early stages.