Nice Blog! I'm surprised I never stumbled upon it earlier! I grew up skating in the mid to late 80s and pushed Mongo back then for the 7 years that I had skated. Nobody cared back then and I could push extremely fast that way and still can. My first pro deck was an Alva Bill Danforth, and he is/was definitely a Mongo Pusher! So maybe I learned from him!
I started up skateboarding again in 2004 after 12 years of storing my board in the trunk of my car. But before I started to really get back into it, I was watching new skate vids and checking out Thraser mag in the grocery stores again...it was a world I left behind rediscovered and I discovered the new negative stigma attached to Mongo, so when I hit the park I tried pushing regular and it was hard at first, but after I went snowboarding for the first time, I realized your front foot stays strapped in and you are forced to push off regular when getting off the lift...it was so awkward for me being a mongo pusher..after that snowboard trip where I basically was forced to learn how to push regular, now I can do both! So now I only push mongo when I need a ton of speed, the rest of the time I push regular.
Check out my blog, please excuse the odd posts about non skateboarding stuff, most of it is so I can make some extra money off my blog.
Thanks, DDJ...Your story echoes my own. I've been a mongo pusher since '78-'79. I can push regular, badly, but I don't..It's too late for this old dog. Keep on ripping!
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Nice Blog! I'm surprised I never stumbled upon it earlier! I grew up skating in the mid to late 80s and pushed Mongo back then for the 7 years that I had skated. Nobody cared back then and I could push extremely fast that way and still can. My first pro deck was an Alva Bill Danforth, and he is/was definitely a Mongo Pusher! So maybe I learned from him!
I started up skateboarding again in 2004 after 12 years of storing my board in the trunk of my car. But before I started to really get back into it, I was watching new skate vids and checking out Thraser mag in the grocery stores again...it was a world I left behind rediscovered and I discovered the new negative stigma attached to Mongo, so when I hit the park I tried pushing regular and it was hard at first, but after I went snowboarding for the first time, I realized your front foot stays strapped in and you are forced to push off regular when getting off the lift...it was so awkward for me being a mongo pusher..after that snowboard trip where I basically was forced to learn how to push regular, now I can do both! So now I only push mongo when I need a ton of speed, the rest of the time I push regular.
Check out my blog, please excuse the odd posts about non skateboarding stuff, most of it is so I can make some extra money off my blog.
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Thanks, DDJ...Your story echoes my own. I've been a mongo pusher since '78-'79. I can push regular, badly, but I don't..It's too late for this old dog. Keep on ripping!
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