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Skate Goofy But Shred Regular

Ok, so here is a question that I would love to hear some answers to. A new friend of mine just told me that she skates goofy but come winter time she snowboards regular. I find this very odd but she does not. Has anyone heard of this before?

Travis McLain

yup.

ive heard of it. sometimes its been with people who skate mongo one way and dont know how to push with their back foot while the front is strapped in on the snowboard. or others do it for no apparant reason, it may be weird but it may help a ton going switch.

i've known a few people..

that ride goofy and skate regular and vice versa. i've seen it with wakeboarders too. i think its a good thing, makes you more diverse when you ride switch doing the other sport. the 2 people i did know of that did this were both pretty damn talented skaters/shredders. anymore with riding, it seems that switch everything is the new in. switch tails, switch as smooth as reg. so i don't see why it can't hurt you to ride goofy and skate reg. werd is born
I used to roll dolo's, from state to state!

So what your saying

is that she is either ska8ing switch or snowboarding switch. Dont get me wrong I think that its rad that she can do that but it seems like it would screw you up a little. She said that she cant go switch when she is snowboarding regular though. Vierd...

Where ever you go there you are.

i know what's going down here..

this new friend of yours probably doesn't really skate. i dated a chick one time, claimed to skate goofy like this girl of yours did too...but she really never skated. i think she's confused, probably becuase of the lack of actually skating more than 1 day a year, and she probably doens't skate bowls/trannies/or street even. sounds like she claimin her fame to skate. i doubt she really can though.
I used to roll dolo's, from state to state!

Nope

She skates the bowls at the Aspen sk8 park almost every other day. Never seen her shred though.

Where ever you go there you are.

Oohh K

Sounds like your friend needs to show you how she shreds so you can help her out! You said she can't ride switch when shredding regular. But she can skate goofy. Does anyone have any tips for helping someone like this... to ride switch? I have a friend who does the same thing. Would a more diverse stance help make the transition to switch? And also, is there a name for this weird anomoly?

pushing mongo..

pushing mongo is definitely kinda wack, my good buddy skates goofy but rides regular...and he pushed mongo...i tell him it looks pretty lame, and he needs to change his ways, so he's gonna try to set up his snowboard goofy cause thats the way he skates and he' s gonna see if his front boards will now turn into switch front boards overnite..which would be sick in my goofy riding and skating opinion-

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when i used to skate, i did it regular and when i hit the snow i do it goofy....i tried snowboarding regular and couldn't....