What is your stance, which is your dominant hand and are you front or back footed?

[Mr J]

Regular foot, right handed, even footed for speed generating and general carving around.
skateboard regular, but switch/fakie is fairly easy on a skateboard and something I would not attempt on a surfboard.

 

[njsurfer42]

surf, skate, snowboard goofy. left handed w/ some ambidexterous tendancies due to growing up in a house w/ all right handers. right foot dominant (kick right, lead w/ right leg/jump off left leg). probably neutral or slightly front-footed.

 

[casa_mugrienta]

surf, skate, snowboard goofy. left handed w/ some ambidexterous tendancies due to growing up in a house w/ all right handers. right foot dominant (kick right, lead w/ right leg/jump off left leg). probably neutral or slightly front-footed.

Don't you love Bonzers?

The Bonzer is a backfooted design.

 

[LifeOnMars]

Regular foot, right handed, front footed with wide stance (no stink bug) just long legged for height

 

[Duffy LaCoronilla]

That's interesting. I hadn't really considered eye dominance. I'm also left eye dominant or at least I think I am since that's the eye I use when shooting a bow or gun.

I was thinking that a person who surfs with their dominant arm forward would tend to be heavier on the front foot and a person who surfs with their dominant arm back would be more back footed. Apparently that's not always the case in fact it seems pretty evenly split.

Back to the drawing board!

Eye dominance is way more important than people think. It’s not that one is specifically better than the other, it’s knowing which eye is dominant and how to “adjust” for it.

 

[CutnSnip]

left handed - regular stance - feel sorta balanced as far as back foot/front..maybe a slight tendency on the front foot.

 

[MathDebater]

Right handed and side dominate for everything I’ve tried, goofy as fook. Not at all ambidextrous.

 

[rowjimmytour]

Regular foot
Right handed
Back footed "like to pretend I learned some thing growing up with hereo's like Dane Kealoha".

 

[rowjimmytour]

How about mongo pushing skaters?
Or chicken legged non kettle bell squaters who grab rail to make a turn?

 

[Kento]

Same.
PM sent. Click on the link for my pics.
Call me. Phone number is in pic 3, on left cheek.

Nothing weird though.

I accidentally called the number on the right cheek.

 

[TheEl]

goofy
left eyed
write with my left hand but do everything else with my right.
no idea which foot is the shred pedal. Feels like I go between both for different boards.

you want my mothers maiden name and my atm code too?

 

[jkb]

Regular
Right handed
Front footed

 

[000]

i reckon if u r standing on a roof, your strongest leg will be in front
surfing is a bit like sliding down a roof, so being a right handed/footed goofyfoot makes more sense than regular

 

[njsurfer42]

Don't you love Bonzers?

The Bonzer is a backfooted design.

i do. i'm a conundrum wrapped in an enigma.

 

[Havoc]

when biking ur strongest foot goes forward. for me that's my right. surf regular. so strongest foot back?

 

[sushipop]

I can’t believe no one has gone here yet, slackers...

This thread has legs.

Also, this thread is @Eunice ‘s hunting grounds.

 

[ehiunno]

It seems a good majority do, at least looking at boardmakers in CA.

For example, do a search for backfooted orientation boards on CI's site and see what you come up with.

(I also noticed they've moved their front footed boards into the category of "neutral")

Yeah I also see they seem to have re-labeled all of their shortboards as "neutral"

I am aware the low entry high exit volume slightly forward models are popular at the moment, and are marketed as being better for the average surfer. Lots of CI pros on the Happy and of course JJF on the Shadow, Italo IF-15, etc. Maybe the pros like them because they make landing crazy airs easier? I thought the CI Fever and Lost Driver were supposed to be more back-footed and those are also very popular with expert-pro level surfers.

I still don't really understand the front-footed vs back-footed distinction. I can buy that some pros today like volume forward boards, but I have a hard time believing that is because they are "front-footed". FF surfing just sounds wrong to me.

There's a great new slow-mo video from JJF we can look at, is this front-footed surfing? I'd genuinely like to know

 

[Havoc]

all boars are both footed. we’re not flamingos n chit

 

[santacruzin]

regular foot back foot surfer
regular for skating , rarely ride switch except when curb dancing aka old man low impact skating
Snowboard reg but no issues switch
right handed , penmanship is illegible with either hand

 

[rowjimmytour]

Yeah I also see they seem to have re-labeled all of their shortboards as "neutral"

I am aware the low entry high exit volume slightly forward models are popular at the moment, and are marketed as being better for the average surfer. Lots of CI pros on the Happy and of course JJF on the Shadow, Italo IF-15, etc. Maybe the pros like them because they make landing crazy airs easier? I thought the CI Fever and Lost Driver were supposed to be more back-footed and those are also very popular with expert-pro level surfers.

I still don't really understand the front-footed vs back-footed distinction. I can buy that some pros today like volume forward boards, but I have a hard time believing that is because they are "front-footed". FF surfing just sounds wrong to me.

There's a great new slow-mo video from JJF we can look at, is this front-footed surfing? I'd genuinely like to know

I think front footed is nice way to say in this ultra over sensitive times that someone has chicken legs (rail grab turns), front zipper vest, drinks pabst, changing poncho, and is or surfs like alex knost