Regular foot going goofy

[Boludo]

yes I agree it is a great skill.  I should have clarified with saying people switchfoot surfing simply to avoid backside surfing.  If you are switchfoot surfing for variety and progression then all is good.

[laszlo]

My experience is somewhat different. I have been a natural goofyfoot since I started surfing, back in the mid 1960's. I never thought about it, the first time I stood up on a board my right leg automatically went forward, and there it stayed. Flash forward forty years, and when I started SUP surfing somehow I found myself switching feet when going right, again without a conscious effort to do so. It just happened. I have also been windsurfing for the past twenty five years, so perhaps that had a role in it, although any cause and effect would be hard to pin down.

I still find myself starting out goofy when I go into surf stance and start paddling for a wave. But when I actually catch the wave I switch feet, unless its a left, in which case I have to remind myself to not switch.

[NatalSUP]

I don't do it to go frontside, but I do sometimes go goofy when paddling hard into a wave and I am only able to move my back foot up to shift my weight real quick while maintaining a hard stroke. 

Then I step back to regular as soon as I drop in.  Kind of weird but it works.

I thought that I was alone...
I do the same...

[surfnpoppy]

yes I agree it is a great skill.  I should have clarified with saying people switchfoot surfing simply to avoid backside surfing.  If you are switchfoot surfing for variety and progression then all is good.

What is funny is I can do switchfoot with ease........ in flat water only. In surf its bye bye.

But to the other point of "avoiding backside surfing"...... backside is my favorite.