Train and learn how to surf switch foot

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Rant - Train and learn how to surf switch foot

Have you ever felt a difference between the quality of your backside and front side snaps? Have you felt limited by the prevalence of right-handed waves, in your local spot, being a goofy-footer?

The majority of world surfers ride waves with their left foot forward. They're natural footers. So, what happens if they're challenged by an incredible left-handed break? Having the ability of riding it in switch stance mode would be perfect. Of course, the opposite situation applies to goofy footers.

The ability to surf switch foot may not be possible, in a matter of weeks. There are natural body characteristics that force your surf stance. Legs, knees, hips, feet, ankles may determine your dominant stance, but a lot comes from your brain.

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Rant by burro

7 comments

Tangerine
40 weeks ago

Growing up in Bolinas, I was a solid goofy. I started doing spinners and switching stance when I'd surf The P#tch (a slow and leisurely right). Before long it was pretty easy, and I'd just take off frontside, rather than switching. Just for laughs, I began taking off backside on the Ch#nnel lefts. Then I moved to Maui and surfed Honolua every day, frontside or backside on takeoff, whatever I felt like at the moment. In the summers I'd do the same with Maui's lefts.

Long story short, I became a wild and indiscriminate slut for stance-switching, and worse, taking off any ol' kinda way, even switching again as the impulse struck me. I no longer knew my true orientation. It was all downhill from there.

In spite of this promiscuity, I was hopelessly right-handed in my upper limbs.

To the younger generation in search of thrills, I offer this hard-won nugget of wisdom: If you insist on surfing when the waves are not triple-overhead and barreling on outside sandbars, and are merely, perhaps, a waist-to-chest-high fair-plus, there is no better time to practice switching stance.