God trials chat is becomming a funny place!!! To be honest, if you're learning still, I wouldn't even try riding with your bad foot forward, you might as well master all the basics first before you go and confuse yourself. No, read the thread. As explained, that's 100% normal. Dont be silly, there clearly is. If you ride right foot forward, the natural direction to sidehop is to the left, and the other way round. People who go the other way are wrong. it's that simple. they may well be able to do a fair height, but it's still unnatural, and before anyone comes out with any 'neil tunnicliffe does it that way' crap, he may well do. there are always exceptions to the rules. Neils been riding for about a thousand years, before people realised how much easier sidehops were with the correct footing.