origin of the term goofy foot

General Discussion
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I had somebody ask me this at the beach the other day and didn’t have an answer.

If you surf with your right foot in front you describe yourself as goofy foot. This term has been around a long time but where did it come from? Why is left foot forward considered regular?

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when the cartoonists at disney

portrayed Art linkletter surfing

they chose to use the character goofy

as a joke because they were amused

that he always had his back to the wave.

all the waves portrayed

nobody dropped in

because of early S.A.G. contractural agreements.

the only actors allowed to drop in were stunt men.

this was all turned arround when John Millius negotiated with

shaper ,surfer, actors,for promotional consideration

and a share of their life income.

all this is information is availiable

in the U.N. Authorized

Historic Encyclopedia

Guide Register Map

Concordia Thesaurus

of Surfing in the Twentieth Century

in the refrence section

at Acredited universities

world wide since 1998

availiable from simon schuster

in paperback august 2005

limited printing.

…ambrose…

its all about the movies

all the real stars are right handed

3

Wondered if it started in california. My working theory was with the point breaks near LA mostly rights anybody surfing backside looked “Goofy”

4

…we won’t get into where the term ‘screwfoot’ originated from , then , SHALL we ?!

ben

goofy on land , natural in the water . [except when doing bottom turn face plants]

left handed for writing , but right handed for EVERYTHING else . I “SHOULD” be able to switchfoot…

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6

…check the direction his BACK foot is facing ??

7

its a reverse negative

goofy was screw foot

that place in the picture

is redondo breakwater

goofy was a redondo local

…ambrose…

zealots have all the answers

goofy was the man~

and he still is.

8

"…if Mickey is a mouse,

and Donald is a duck,

and Pluto is a dog…

…then what is Goofy???"

9

http://www.vegalleries.com/holiday/images/imgoush/goofy.jpg

definitive goof nose ride

10

Goofy is surfing regular…hunh…

11

…check the direction his upper torso is facing ???

…will disney [n]EVER get it right ??

ben

12

goofy faces his torso into the apparent wind

in order to keep his ears out of his eyes.

Aerodynamix in his core being.

…ambrose…

Like polynesian girls surfacing

the hair is never in the eyes.

13

He’s in the middle of a cross-step.

14

lol@thread