Talk:Footedness

Actually, Bam Margera is goofy-footed.

Saying "when a rider rides in other than his preferred stance, he is said to ride switch stance or fakie." is incorrect. Fakie means riding backwards in one's preferred stance.

This article could use a more general, less boardsport-specific examination of footedness. Footedness seems to be manifested in all kinds of situations where the body has to be placed sideways relative to some directional activity, for example in trackstands in cycling. I bet someone somewhere has written something interesting about this but I'm too lazy to look for it myself. Adrianmander 20:33, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The sentences on BMX (under "other") don't make any sense. I don't know anything about BMX so I can't fix it. Oneirist 21:05, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Parts of this article are written in terms of both sex and then proceed to state one, such as "balance herself". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.111.162.127 (talk) 18:56, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A snowboard instructor told me that the term "goofy footed" predates snowboarding and skate boarding. Those two sports borrowed the slang from surfing. The surfers started the term because there was an early Disney cartoon in which the character Goofy was riding some kind of board shaped thing, and he had his right foot forward. Can someone please verify this? Does anybody know what cartoon that might have been? Ak outrider (talk) 23:06, 21 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You might be thinking of Hawaiian Holiday (RKO, 1937) (IMDb), (YouTube). knoodelhed (talk) 16:03, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Correlation with handedness

Is there much correlation as to footedness, with which hand the rider prefers to write, use tools, etc? knoodelhed (talk) 20:18, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Because it is more common to be right handed than left handed and it is more common to ride regular than goofy there has to be some overlap of regular footed right handed people. I dont know for sure. As a piece of information I am right handed and ride goofy a friend of mine is left handed and rides regular. Two people though however, is hardly a statiscally significant number.Crd721 (talk) 06:51, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Correction: that friend of mine that rides regular is right handed. Crd721 (talk) 08:18, 13 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

ratio

Does anyone know the goofy/regular ratio?Crd721 (talk) 06:56, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Biased introduction?

"Skateboarders DO NOT use this term and most have not heard of it. This is an obscure term." To me that sounds like something an angry skateboarder has written, and is his opinion, and not very encyclopaedic. It's not an obscure term, most people where I live will have heard of it, if only in relation to football. Whether or not skateboarders say it is another matter, but could be phrased better. --Lytel (talk) 21:56, 29 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]