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Stance for board sports is nearly even, one analysis shows 56% regular vs 44% goofy [1]. It's not like handedness at all. Not sure why one was designated "normal" and the other "weird" when it's so close. My guess is that there was a very small group of skaters that came up with the name, and by chance most of them happened to be regular.

1. https://blog.benw.xyz/2013/11/the-real-goofy-vs-regular-a-lo...




One theory is that "goofy-footed" came from the way Goofy surfed in an old Walt Disney cartoon: https://www.pacificlongboarder.com/news/Did-you-know-The-ter...


Oh yeah, I forgot about that


Naming things is weird. In movement/dance description, the name of the typical walk is "contrabody", but if you move your right arm with your right leg, that's called "natural".




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