| : : Really? Usually when I see people skate ramps, they turn the way in the direction of which foot is forward. Thats how I decided to turn right cause otherwise you have to cross way over the other foot. So this is on park ramps too?
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: It has nothing to do with the ramp. When you turn in the direction of your front foot, you are doing a frontside turn, else you do a backside turn, which is a bit more frequent. To add more confusion: on my skate photos, you see mostly frontside airs. That's because they are easier to shoot from the platform.
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: : Oh, is turning left for sidestance? Cause I skate parallel. If I try sidestance I go left. That makes sense! But parallel I go right.
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: No connection to riding parallel or spider. In both cases, we call the turn frontside and backside like described above.
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: : I have been know to go against the grain though lol.
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: Vertical roller skating goes against the grain per se. You have to be really strong headed to to pull it through. ;-)
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: : Hey, this is funny that most of us are goofy.
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: I also found this a bit enigmatic. Why do you call the rare case regular? Has me puzzled always.
But arent most skateboarders regular? I was checking out the cheapo snowboards for kids and they were all made regular. So maybe us rollers are just a little goofy all around lol?
Well heres what I looked at when I started. Everyone goes the direction of their front foot except the one girl kinda goes both ways. Lisa seems to go right except when she stalls.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5TcmF6dS34
Well, if I'm weird, always been, guess I always will be. Just nice when I find there is at least another person like me that likes to go against the grain! Just dont really have a choice sometimes. Some things I like and can do, some things I dont or cant. Then I'm different cause whats natural to me is odd to everyone else. Yep, the eccentric one! Nope, nothing normal bout me lol. :-D
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