I looked and didn't see a recent thread for this, so I decided to make a poll and figure out how ya'll ride!
Pretty simple, in most scenarios, do you ride Goofy or Regular?
Personally, I ride goofy. Originally, the rental jerks just set me up with a regular stance, but now that I've put some more effort into it I discovered that I'm much more comfortable with a goofy stance. I think it's because I always imitated my neighbor, who rode goofy with skateboards and scooters and whatnot.
I'm goofy, always been goofy, always will be goofy....oh and I ride with my right foot forward lol. I do ride switch about as much as I ride reg. though.
Goofy forever. On skateboard, on my snowboard, on any board that I have to stand on. Oh, and when I ride my skateboard, I push Mongo too, so I'm really out there.
Im kinda glad to see the poll is about 50/50. I am just learning and pretty sure i ride goofy and my friend who's teaching me rides goofy but i sorta thought it was less common... hence why its called regular and goofy.
I'm actually fairly surprised. Usually at resorts I perceive more of a 1:4 (Goofy:Regular) ratio. So not incredibly rare or special, but still not the norm. I remember being really surprised once when everyone on a lift was goofy once.
Course, sucks when you're on the right side of the lift and a regular rider is on the left... oops.
Very true, have done alot of last minute switches as the chairs coming around, lol.
I'm regular, but every now and again after a run I'll unstrap my front foot and ride up to, and off, the lift switch. Makes the day a little more interesting.
Ahh so you guys ride different on your skate board and snow board... Judging by the signs I've read about, I should be goofy, but I seem to be more comfortable regular so that's how I've been riding... Just a newbie though.
It's all a comfort thing. If you like riding regular better then I'd just stick with that. If you ever notice that it seems something's not clicking, you might want to try goofy out, but otherwise I wouldn't.
I make an effort to ride switch about 50% of the time, just cause I feel you can't really progress without it. If you are not comfortable switch you'll never land 180's 540's ect. Also it just feels like once you have control reg. and switch it improves your overall board control.
Goofy reporting in. I'm quite surprised that it's an even split so far, since I always thought regular was called "regular" because it was far more... regular.
Goofy, only because of the way I get off the lift. Otherwise, I find it hard to tell if I'm goofy or regular. This season I'm going to practice getting off the lift regular.
Goofies are relatively rare, but it doesn't surprise me that we're leading the poll on this site...we're better than regulars (most of the regulars are at truoutdoors )
Who says goofies are rare? I remember reading a stat in the 90's that said over 50% of boarders were goofy. I'd be willing to bet it's very close to 50/50 worldwide.
I don't believe it. If that were the case, there would be no "regulars"...they'd just be called "left foot fowards". Regular means the standard or majority. Those stats were skewed, for whatever reason.
Most likely goofies feel they need to "represent". I don't think the ratio is as skewed as it is with left vs right-handed, but you can def see on the slopes that most are regular.
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