![]() Roll with whatever feels more natural and comfortable! Remember that one skateboard stance is not better than the other. Let someone suddenly push you from behind – the foot you catch yourself with is your likely back foot on the skateboard. Stand still with your feet close together and your eyes shut. The foot you automatically lead with should be your front foot on a skateboard. Run and try to slide across a slippery floor. So if it’s the left you should be goofy-footed, if it’s the right you should be regular-footed. The foot you instinctively kick a ball with is usually your back foot. But there are simple methods to predict your skateboarding stance – try all of them to make sure: Unfortunately skateboard stance can’t be deduced from handedness. Nevertheless “goofy” has no negative, clumsy associativity. The term “goofy” possibly originates from the 1937 Disney cartoon “Hawaiian Holiday” where Goofy surfs with his right foot forward. Riding in this skate stance the left leg should be the one to push with. Goofy stance or goofy-footed is when – in the direction of motion – your right foot is positioned in the front and your left foot at the back end of the deck. The term “regular” possibly originates from the (disputable) assumption that most riders in boardsports are regular-footed. Riding in this skate stance the right leg should be the one to push with. Regular stance or regular-footed in any boardsports is when – in the direction of motion – your left foot is positioned in the front and your right foot at the back end of the deck. No matter which but one skate stance will feel more natural and thus makes it easier to progress. Skate stance – the goofy regular switched to fakieīefore stepping on a skateboard for the very first time you should find out about your preferred skate stance – “regular” or “goofy”.
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