

One leg is very comfortable and one leg is not. Or, you have an imbalance in your legs and stance. You’ve either learnt both sports in different stances when young and are just now identifying it.

There are two main reasons this can happen. If you want to just keep progressing and keep it fun, stick with it. It’s going to be a long slog of trying to relearn skating. If you’ve been skating for years and it’s ingrained in you, you're going to have to replace muscle memory and that could be infuriating. Swapping your surfing is too hard as you don’t have endless opportunities to train the new stance and this will end up in frustration. Ultimately we want to improve our surfing so it’s better to adopt your skating to suit. Just switch now and take the harder learning curve at the start.

If you’ve just started skating and your surfing stance feels awkward and you are happy to work towards improving your surfing, taking your skating slower. This depends on a few things, if you’ve been skating for a while or if you’ve just started and how fast you want the learning experience of skating to be or what’s the end goal. If this is you and your stances are switched, you’re going to wonder, “what do I do, switch or keep at it?” The obvious complaint - should you change stance or carry on?
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This guide is all about how to navigate that from my own experience. Some surfers will find that they may surf as a natural and then they skate goofy.
