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

Aruka

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I have a theory. We'll see if it's correct.

I know front or back foot dominance is kind of hard to judge. And just to clarify what I'm referring to is whether your tendency is to place more of your weight on the front or the back foot when surfing. If you don't know or if you think you are pretty balanced/neutral just say so.

I'm regular foot, right handed and slightly back foot dominant.
 
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oneula

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how about this
do you surf the same as you skate?

right handed
skate goofy
surf regular

weighting depends on board and direction
tankers/funboards/fish - weight forward to centered with feet movement forward and back
thrusters/griffins/geminis - weight on tail with little feet movement (no airs)

backhand - weight on tail
forehand - forward to centered unless cutting back
 

sdsrfr

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regular stance, left handed (&foot), neutral/front footed.

I play golf and swing a bat righty but hockey left and kick left.

yep, I’m an asterisk depending on the activity. cant skate to save my life.

edit: @oneula , apparently I should try skating goofy. Might actually work. Lol.
 

oneula

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regular stance, left handed (&foot), neutral/front footed.

I play golf and swing a bat righty but hockey left and kick left.

yep, I’m an asterisk depending on the activity. cant skate to save my life.

edit: @oneula , apparently I should try skating goofy. Might actually work. Lol.
tell you one thing all that surf stance and weighting stuff goes to sht when you are snow skiing (not boarding) powder/hard pack. Paid many painful dues trying to de-learn surfing when I started serious snow skiing.

Also I where I live there are no hills/inclines and we started with disassembled steel skate wheels. so to skate meant to "tack" to drive and create any kind of speed forward without constantly pushing or being pulled by a rope from a bike. Kind of made sense to use your strong foot to move the nose back and forth "tacking" at least that what we called it back then. Front wheels seem to be the important wheels on a skateboard.
 

kpd73

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Regular foot, right handed. Surf off my back foot on my backhand but off my front foot surfing frontside. And yes I do find this weird.
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Nothing weird though.
 
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Dekerwild

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Regular footed.
Write/eat, play tennis and billiards right handed.
Baseball, golf, volleyball, bowling left handed.
Vacuum, shoot guns and clean dishes right handed
Frisbee feels normal each hand, can’t decide which, just depends on the wind
Kick skate both footed.
I will Surf backside 70% if volunteering to a split peak with you.
Always front footed leading with my left hand
 
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SurfMission

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Can we give a few examples of famous front footed surfers? I almost feel like there is a transition that occurs there.
 
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ehiunno

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Right handed
Surf/skate/snowboard goofy
I feel like I can like see/process information better looking to my right if that makes sense lol. Not sure if thats natural or from a lifetime of looking right doing board sports.
Never really understood the front vs backfoot surfer thing so I guess neutral to slightly back footed?
 

trifish

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Neutral stance
Ambidextrous but use right more for the convenience (mouse,scissors...etc)
Skate equally both ways
Only surf Goofy though
 
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