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She had a really hard time learning until I suggested to switch the bindings. After that she finally could ride properly, too bad we discovered this on the last day. Grab a skateboard and practice a bit, this will answer the question which stance you prefer.
You could borrow a skateboard first and figure it out, this will save you some time on the beach. The sooner you are in the water the better. I already mentioned that you should just ride a board and see what feels natural to you.
There are some ways to figure out what your preferred stance is but once you start thinking about it, it becomes harder. Some methods work better than others and results vary from person to person. I did a bit of research to see what others say and a couple of tips are just plain wrong. The stairs method, for example, tells you to stand in front of stairs and step on the first stair to determine your dominant foot.
I tested it and it was the complete opposite. A person like me however only gets confused, but that mainly has to do with my chaotic ADD brain. So take off your shoes and find a floor that allows you to slide carpet will not work. Sprint and jump landing sideways on your legs and face the sliding direction. Do this a couple of times to see what your body prefers. If your right foot is in front you just found out you prefer to stand goofy.
Repeat this a couple of times and also try it both ways. This will give you a decent answer to what your preferred stance really is. You can even do this inside your head. Imagine walking on a frozen lake or running to a patch of ice on the street and slide. Picture this in your head, it should give you an idea. If not, get off the couch and do it live. This one can be done inside your house and is pretty easy.
It requires you to fall forwards until you need to correct yourself before you plant your face on your floor. The theory is that the first leg you use to catch yourself to prevent you from hitting the floor is your back foot.
In many cases it is so I decided to add it. Go out there and try or picture it in your head. The result is that the foot that you stand on will be your front foot and the one you kick will be your back foot.
If your kick foot is left, you could be goofy. A really old trick that sometimes does the job, I remember doing this over 20 years ago. The best approach is to close your eyes and asked someone to gently push you. If you do, you will start overthinking and the results may not answer the question. Again, the foot you use to step forward to prevent you from smacking your face on the floor is you dominant and usually back foot.
Once your past the level of a beginner and want to progress you could look into other stances. This opens a huge range of possibilities for people who like a challenge.
I recently watched someone ride a bowl in switch stance like it was nothing and it was just so impressive. That takes some rewiring of that grey mss in your head to come to that level.
Above, you can see Momiji Nishiya of Japan who won an Olympic gold medal at age 13! Even though a skateboarder will prefer to ride goofy or regular, you'll notice they're not doing it all the time. They'll often spin and face both directions, which adds to the challenge and excitement. Goofy stance on a snowboard is the same, with the left foot in the back and the right foot in the front.
One difference though is that because the rider's feet are strapped into the board, they don't use their back foot to push off. That is unless they are not riding and need to get somewhere on flat ground like over to the ski lift. Regular stance in snowboarding is right foot in the back. As with both skateboarding and snowboarding, goofy stance in surfing means the same thing, your left foot is in the back and your right foot is forward.
And like snowboarding, the person keeps both feet on the surfboard and doesn't push off with their back foot, or else the waves would pull them off their board. Regular stance in surfing is right foot in the back. If a person is riding goofy stance, their chest and toes will face a wave called frontside that's breaking on their left. If the wave is breaking on their right, their back and heels will face the wave called backside.
The opposite is true for regular stance.
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