In this way you can keep your balance well enough to enjoy and learn more wakeboarding skills.
Have your dominant foot planted at the rear part of the board and the other one positioned in the font. With arms straightened and both hand palms facing the water, hold on to the tow rope with straight elbows with the handle position in front of your hips between your knees. Make sure your hips and shoulders are in line with the board. Your knees slightly bent and your weight centered on both feet. Your feet should be shoulder wide apart as well as your legs. When you finally manage to discover your comfortable stance, then make sure to follow the correct body position for a more comfortable riding. Being able to do this will help increase your wakeboarding skills and abilities. You have to find ways to get comfortable also with your unnatural stance in order to learn other tricks that might require its use. This trick is referred to as riding switch stance. There are beginners tricks in wakeboarding that might require you to ride in your unnatural stance like Surface 180. Going for both regular or goofy stance when you are riding your board can help you determine your natural stance and make you feel comfortable in the water. If you’re still quite unsure which foot is really your dominant one or you still don’t feel comfortable, then alternately use both feet as your dominant when you are out in the water wakeboarding. The foot you use to catch yourself from falling is your dominant foot and have the rightful place in the rear part of your board. With your feet together, have your eyes closed and ask your partner to gently push you. Falling TestĪsk assistance from someone when performing this test. The foot that you slide in to wear your pants will be the leading foot, which will be placed on the front part of the board, and the other foot you use to balance which is the dominant foot will be place on the back of the board. Pants Leg Test:īalancing the body while wearing pants is usually the job of the dominant foot. The preferred stance or side kicking the ball is your dominant foot. Place the ball on the ground or hold it with both hands and kick it like you are going for the goal with eyes closed. This side is your dominant foot in front. Here are few ways to check which side is the dominant foot: Stair Test:Ĭheck what foot you use first use to step forward when someone calls you to go upstairs. The dominant foot will be the one to create the balance needed while riding the board and will initiate turns when doing tricks and stances. Knowing which side of your feet is the dominant and which is the non-dominant foot forward is important in order to position this foot at the back of the board. There are only a few wakeboarders who use the stance because it isn’t easy to be a goofy rider. If you do it the other way around, right foot front, left foot at the back then you prefer the goofy stance. Regular stance is the most common used by wakeboarders. If you are comfortable to stand with your left foot forward and right foot at the back then you are a regular. You have to stand in perpendicular to the board with a forward foot in front of the other. Regular and goofy refers to the way you stand on your board when wakeboarding.
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