For some reason I started out skating mongo. I’m not sure why, it just happened. Maybe it was my “friends,” maybe it was something going on at home, or maybe it was just me.
I never realized what the problem was until later in life. I decided to learn how to push non-mongo. It was hard. At first it felt very awkward, but it gradually got easier. I remember when pushing normally and pushing mongo felt the same, and I was comfortable with each one.
However, I didn’t give it up entirely. Although I generally don’t push mongo, every once in a while I’m caught off balance and catch myself with the mongo foot. Like everyone, sometimes I stumble, and sometimes I fall. Now I mostly just push mongo socially, for fun, you know?
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I skate mongo i havent really been held back by it. I’ve tried non-mongo but it was just too hard for me I’d find myself going hard left as soon as i was doin it so I just said screw it and kept mongo.
I PUSH MONGO… anyone that says it takes longer to set up is stupid, it takes about 1 move of foot for both, and that is the pushing foot… Growing up i had to push mongo, it was easier on my busted up street. And then this year i tryed to skate ‘regular’ and it just felt to wierd… im not that great of a skater, i just love having fun… isnt that what skating is about, having fun?
just leave the mongo skaters alone!!!
i push mongo im an alright skater people say pushing mongo is harder but thats stupid ITS NEVER HELD ME BACK so why should it hold any one else back
I used to push mongo until recently after all the anti-mongo comments kept arising from my skate crew, so I learn to push non-mongo, it feels really really hard at first, but im getting used to it now, and anyway, its always good to be able to skate more than one way, mongo and non-mongo.
peace outttttt
I push mongo and i’ve never had a prob with it people often make fun of me for pushing mongo but i can skate alot better than them like im sponsered by my skate park and people who barley can even ollie make fun of me and ya i’ve tried to push regular but it doesent feel right so from now on i am goin to push mongo.
are there any mongo pros?
yea ipush mongo and that just means people that do are more skilled than people that push regular.tony hawk says u shouldnt but hes a flmaing homosexual. so for all those kids that start ou tpushing mongo stick with it b/c itsway easier. mongoskater are sick so screw u all
I think Stevie Williams pushes mongo. Look in the DC video if u have to. Also, Rob Dyrdek and Leo Romero push mongo when in switch.
okay seriously. mongo looks so un-natural and awkward….stop pushing mongo!!!!!!!its ugly
yes i push mongo also i find it just easier
regular is stupid, you get more speed with mongo, u can put ur foot way further forward then in regular, my friend skates regular and he is way stronger than me and i own him in a skateboard race uphill.
bauh!
yall is stupid it looks like stevie is mongo cuz he always skates fakie or switch
mongo people can push faster and yes it takes a split second longer because it takes no time to put ur foot on the tail but it lakes a little time to put ur front foot in the right place
i push mongo and when im in switch(goofy) i skate normal but i do alot of pressure flips so i think all those setting up problems come from retards
i so aggree , im mongo too and ive never seen like anyone skate like tht, im pretty good but all my frends are like “why do u do it like tht” ive tried skating like u did uno skating just normal but its hard! but i only did it for about 2 days lol!! but yeh COOL!
yeah i push mongo and i have no problem i think its a bunch off bs what they say about us but hey when your better then them theres not much they can say any more
mongo skating is wrong. i’ve learned how to skate mongo and i’ve been skating for a year. i never really thought there was anything wrong with it until i was at the skatepark and i saw this little kid with a walmart board skating mongo. he looked so stupid pushing the board and so i thought to myself that i must look stupid too. so i learned how to skate regular and am still learning. but yeah everyone, i looks wrong so just stop being idjuts and try to stick with riding regular.
a couple people above said it was too hard and they gave up..well you must not be real skater because only posers give up in two days..
there’s not really that much wrong with being mongo since i used to be mongo myself, but it looks so terrible. i used to get picked on so much about it and then i saw a video of myself and everything looked good except the pushing so i forced myself to push normally. all of those who push mongo should learn how to push regular because it has its benefits and it looks wayyyyyy better
push how ever u want all that matters is what u can do once on the board……….
I push mongo, I’m a really good skate, sponserd by a few skateshops around town…and on good skate team, my friends make fun of me but ppl always say it looks horrible and takes so much more time to set up. I can push regular, started reg. and moved to mongo, regular pushing just never appealed to me, but like everyone has already said, who the $%#@% cares, its about having fun.
Ya, amen to that. I skate mongo and setting up has never been a prob. It’s just about having fun, right!
okay, here is what is wrong wtih pushing mongo.
1. it looks straight up stupid!
2. when you push mongo, people think “hey, he must not be good because most people lose mongo by the second year of skating”
3. no pros push mongo, and you are all probably like “oh, well… at least i’m having fun!” and that’s great! but! you look straight up bad when you push mongo and i think you will have a lot more fun if you switch to regular before all the skaters at the skate park make fun of you.
i used to push mongo, and it took a while to switch over. and i still stumble onto my mongo foot every once in a while. but the main reason it matters is because if you want to get anywhere in skateboarding you are going to want to look good while you do it, right? and no actual “skater” is going to buy your pro shoe if you push mongo, unfair it may be but for real, is it that hard to believe? skaters want their favorite skaters to look like total bad @$$&%s on their boards! mongo foot skaters just look bad, but they do have an opporitunity because if they switch over to regular they will be both regular pushing normal and regular pushing switch. instead of… regular pushing normal and mongo pushing switch, or mongo pushing regular and normal pushing switch.
but, if your content with pushing mongo and your proud of it there really isn’t any stopping you. and at the same time, if a mongo pusher 360 flipped el toro then no one will really care.
[regular > mongo]
just shut up and skate.
yeah i used to push mongo but now i push regular and reallly its not that hard to switch. i used to think i was all cool bucause it felt good. but then i saw i looked really stupid. amen to all you regular footers
There’s nothing wrong with pushing mongo, because it helps 360 flips! i skate mopngo and so do a lot of other ppl from my town. I don’t care about what people say about mongo is bad, because i will never stop!
As long as you can skate and have fun who cares about the looks its ok to push mongo or non mongo who cares just have fun thats whats it for
MONGO IS THE UGLIEST STYLE EVER!!!! No one will ever take your skating seriously if you push mongo. Stop being an ultimate noob and push like a regular human being
if you are concerned what your skating looks like to other people you are missing the point entirely.
i skate mongo but 1 of my friends filmed me while skateting and i looked like a goober when i was pushing but i have to say its way easier than regular but as long as you can skate it doesnt matter
If you want to switch from skating mongo to regular, it helps to switch your trucks around. That stops the board from swinging out to the left.
I skate mongo. It doesn’t look that bad. I switch it up for filming though. I just put lines on my board for quick foot placement and i’m fine.
This artical is meant for regular stance skaters ______________________________________________________
At the current moment (5/15/07), I was searching on google to see if I should push no-mongo, or just stick with mongo. Although about 2-3 of my friends do push mongo, but it’s because it is what they did for a long time. It’s almost like the beginning push style of skating until you want to seriously change it.
I thought that I would never get sponsered from about 2 months before now, because I was pushing mongo, and a lot of my friends and people who see me push mongo do make fun of me. I tried today to push no-mongo and here were the typical problems that happened to me and maybe some of you:
1. You lean to far ahead of your board and have to jump off to avoid tripping.
2. You have to adjust your front foot either up, down, left, or right to much and you sort of “trip” off your board.
3. While pushing, your board starts going to the left and again, you need to jump off to avoid tripping off the board.
4. Your going fast and your pushing your board and you dont make your back foot completely on the tail of the board and you slip and do a split, trip, or fly off.
5. You are shaky on it, and going up stuff and getting speed to ollie or any trick off of something is harder.
Mongo is basically a habit. Most pro’s are no-mongo pushers, only because either they think it’s easier and they were brought up skateboarding that way, or because it is just what people believe is the “right” way to push.
A lot of people say “just have fun with it!”. Although even the most powerful words aren’t convincing enough. If you want to change, go for it. Pushing mongo can look silly, unless you are perfect at doing it. The adjustment time is a load of horse lard. It practically takes half of a mila mila mila mila mila second to adjust your feet.
On a final note, I would consider pushing no-mongo if you want to get really far in skating, even if I can’t yet. You should have fun with skating, and doing things right is fun. There technically is no “right” and “wrong” way to push, it’s just something to change or keep. Although, if you want to keep pushing mongo, it is unique, and that is good and bad, it all depends on how you look at it.
mongo, regular, same ease/difficulty, it jus depends on which way u feel more comfortable. sort of like right handed ppl and left handed. you feel me??
wel.. ive been skating for about 3-4 months now i can 50-50, kickflip, popshovit, and ollie 6 sets just the basic stuff… but i haev 1 problem.. MONGO most my friends skate mongo and it does look unnatural so right now after reading all these articles i thought i might lern to skate normal. but if u just wana skate for fun with mates and stuff theres no problem with mongo skaters so do wat u feel like doing an d dont let anyone else put you down you can get far in skateing if u really want to
I can skate mongo and regular but i prefer to skate mongo cause its way easier for me and it takes no tyme for me to set up in my tricks and i`ve been skatin for 8months and im rly good but yea MONGO SKATERS RULE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can skate regular to but i dont like it it does look better but idc how i look as long as i kick sum a** at it.
Right now mongo in the skating community is like skating goofy back then instead of regular everybody thought it was wrong. Which ever way your comfortable you should just skate like that.
look..just leave the mongo skater alone..i mean for pete’s sake..look its just a thing to have fun with..why hate another skater?? just the way he pushes?? why? why are we all hating on each other..when we should really be just skating..doesnt matter..if ur trying to get somewhere..yeah push regular but if your just having fun do what you feel comfortable with..all im saying is that everyone shouldnt be so harsh on these guys we all skate isnt that good enough?? at least we arent no fruit booters…skateboarding is awesome..just skate have fun with it do whatever you want it doesnt matter…my point is we all need to get along who cares if u push a certain way we shouldnt judge like we do..lets all just skate
For Pete’s sake, you guys don’t have any idea what you talking about!!!
The fact of pushing mongo it is just like being right or left handed, it will not affect your skill level.
It is truth that pushing mongo you have to make 1 more movement to set up, so what??? That takes about 0.3 seconds.
The actual stability is the same as a mongo skater has probably learn that way, so try to change to regular would be very difficult but possible.
It will depends on how long you have been skating mongo.
I used to skate mongo when I started, now I can use both feet to push, but I got sponsored by etnies BEFORE chaging to regular.
It is not fair to talk like that about mongo skaters…
All the regular skaters that have written in this chatroom are invited to came to Baysixty6 (London), where I train every day, I will push mongo, you will push regular, I bet you £1000 you can’t even do 50% fo the tricks I do while pushing mongo style…
Any voluntary just come to the skatepark and ask for Danny, you’ll get in for free, I’ll pay for it, but don’t forget your money, you’ll need it.
Is that fair enough? Ok, I will get my people to recorded and I will post it on youtube.
You see, no one reply….there you go…please regular skaters, get a life and forget mongo skaters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I pushed mongo ever since i was seven. Im not all that good but I can impress people. Like other people say, it doesn’t take any longer for foot placement. Here are my problems with people who have problems with us mongo skaters:
1. Who ever said that there is a right way to push!?! people say “not a lot of people push mongo” but not a lot of people are goofy so why dont we tell them to switch?
2. regular skaters complain because its hard for mongo skaters to switch…..I’d like to see them change how they skate when they’ve been skating for so long.
3. how does mongo skating look WEIRD? i just looks different than what their used to. (at least we can push steady and not wabble)
4. Back when skating was new, everyone thought that goofy skaters were weird and should switch. well, look at the people who push weird or are goofy. Bam Margera, has so many shows its insane. Rob Dyrdek, pushes mongo in switch and has his own tv show.
5. people should be aloud to change up the “right” way to skate. this may sound cheesy but if no one change anything in history, or gave up when people told them they were “weird” for trying to make things different, no one would have invented a skateboard now would they!!!!!!!
so you dumb @$$es who give us crap for being mongo should just give it up. It won’t change anything.
im a girl skater, which i get enough crap for
and i push mongo, which gets me even more crap.
but im not like one of those girls who just stand on a board for like 3 seconds and say theyre skaters, i actually do tricks and love the sport.
but anyway, i push mongo, so what? yeah so people give me looks and say stupid comments but i get the same thing for being a girl skater. ive tried skating non-mongo and it just doesnt feel right so im going to stay mongo. if i cared that the way i push looked “weird”, then i wouldn’t be skating at all because people think being a girl skater looks “weird” too. but its not weird, its different and people will look at you more and see how good you are compared to the regular skaters.
so screw it and once you can actually skate, it will shut up all of those regular skaters with big mouths.
I just started skating again after a year…and i’ve skated mongo ever since i started skating. I tried skating regular loads but just couldnt get the feel of it…and mongo skating just felt so much better/
I ride mongo AND IT DOSE NOT SCREW ME UP its so wierd i asked my friend if mongo is bad and he said yes but i said to him it dosnt even matter becuase it really dosnt make a differince to me if people ride mongo or regular. ITS SO ENOYING THAT ALMOST EVERY ONE SAYS THAT MONGO IS BAD i tried to ride regular but it just fells to wierd so i thought screw this but i really wanted to quit my mongo rideing so im just going to keep trying.
I started skating in 2001 at the age of 13. And I started out pushing mongo regular. The crap about it taking loger to set up is bs. And it is hard to cahnge the way you push on a skateboard. However, in 2004 I stopped pushing mongo becuase I really didn’t like the way it looked when i filmed lines. It took me about two weeks to not push mongo and it was hard. However, it’s all personal choice. The only reason i pushed mongo was that I didn’t have someone to tell me it wasn’t the right way of skateboarding. Most of the time I still use my front foot to stop and I still have trouble running and jumping on my board regular. But a good thing that cam eform it is I don’t push mongo switch stance because of my mongo days. So if you feel like you have to change your style of pushing do it for you not for anyone else. Or sae f it and be the next Randy Colvin.
I first started skating when I was 8, but stopped in my teens. I now am 37 and just bought a new longboard skateboard and took it out for a few rides and came to a weird realization.
1.I have been “Mongoing” my whole life and never knew. 2. I surf regular but skate goofy. When I skate regular non-Mongo I am completely off balance and look like I have never skated before. After all this time, should I try to switch it up?
I first started skating when I was 8, but stopped in my teens. I now am 37 and just bought a new longboard skateboard and took it out for a few rides and came to a weird realization.
1.I have been “Mongoing” my whole life and never knew. 2. I surf regular but skate goofy. When I skate regular non-Mongo I am completely off balance and look like I have never skated before. After all this time, should I try to switch it up? If so, how?
i push mongo.
never been a problem, im better than all of my friends and they push regular.
at least they dont make fun of me or anything, they really could care less, its all for fun and if your pushing looks “different”, who cares?
mongo is fine! i push mongo and its perfect for me…thats how i learned..theres nothing wrong with it its like regular or goofy
whichever way u want.
i skate mongo all the time, and i have absolutely no problem with it. I can 360 flip fine, kick flip, heel flip, laser flip… nothing is wrong and its not causing me any probems.
I WAS SKATING 17 YEARS AGO AND THE TERM MONGO WASNT INVENTED..I STILL PUSH THAT WAY NOW JUST COS ITS MORE COMFORTABLE FOR ME…NOW I AM STUCK IN WORK READING ALL THIS RUBBISH ABOUT WHAT IS RIGHT AND WRONG?? THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN SKATING FOR 12 MONTHS AND THINK THEY KNOW IT ALL, YOU DONT EVEN KNOW WHAT SKATING IS ABOUT..FIGURE IT OUT EH?
Bill Danforth was a pro skater who skated mongo. I doubt any of the mongo-haters out there were even born when he was pioneering the skate scene back in the 80’s as part of the Alva skate team. He was hardcore. A proper skater. Not like any of you pathetic losers ragging on people for the way they stand. It didnt even have a name back then because no one cared. It wasnt important how you skated. The fact that you skated was all that mattered. And being with fellow skaters, and sharing your passion and individualism was all that counted. It’s losing its way thanks to you lot!
I’m 32 and have been skating mongo since I first got on a board 25 years ago. I would embrace one of you muppets to come up to me and say I look stupid. I really dont care, and never had. Its the poor kids nowadays I feel sorry for. The ones who read forums like this and go to skate parks in fear of being picked on for the way they skate. ANYONE who’s posted a comment dissing mongo skaters should stick their boards on Ebay and go do something else. You don’t even know what skating is about! YOU ARE NOT A SKATER JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN OLLIE WITH A GANG OF MONKEYS IN A SKATE PARK!
I suggest you read up on Bill and learn what skating is about…
http://www.oldmanarmy.com/BDanforth.aspx
I’m going to end this tedious thread with an exert from Bill Danforth. A Pro skater from the 80’s who skated mongo…
“What’s the best way to deal with someone giving you s**t for riding mongo?
Danforth: The whole mongo thing really came up thanks to Big Brother…they didn’t have anything better to write about so they created this whole thing about the way some skaters push. They made me the poster-boy for mongo foot. When I first got started it didn’t matter at all how you pushed because we were skating bowls and ramps—there was no pushing involved with that.
Once we started skating street, you’d see someone pushing and only then would you realize, but it doesn’t mean anything at all. If I go down as the “Mongo Pusher” if that’s what people remember me for, so be it–you can stick that on my tombstone. But the controversy is one that was whipped up by some idiots because they were selling a magazine. There were other skaters who pushed mongo–Roskopp, Dressen…but I guess there is no such thing as bad press……”
GET A GRIP AND SKATE!!!
I skate mongo too. And right on Bill Danforth! Love that guy.
Point is, I skate mongo naturally, and I can push regular just as easily. I would even say that starting out skating mongo is a blessing, because in switch stance, you’re naturally set up for regular, and then when you train yourself to skate regular, you’re already comfortable with the idea of pushing mongo in switch stance if need be.
I still skate mongo as my main push style. The only time I’ll push regular is if I’m in a situation where it feels more comfortable to push regular, which is exactly how it should be. There isn’t some sort of timing difference in setting up for tricks. That’s 100% verified bs. Some people say it takes a half a second longer to set up for a trick when pushing mongo, compared to pushing regs. But you gotta think about everything you read, question it, and come to a realization of your own opinions. It takes a half second longer? compared to who? If a mongo skater suddenly tried to skate regular and wanted to set up for an ollie, it’d take a half second longer for him to get set up too. And if they’re comparing a natural regular skate vs. a natural mongo skater, then there’s no valid reason to say mongo is worse, because the actual skater might just be a worse skater.
Fact is there is no way to prove mongo is a worse push style because it isn’t. Like Danforth said, “The whole mongo thing really came up thanks to Big Brother…they didn’t have anything better to write about so they created this whole thing about the way some skaters push.” The only reason regular is seen as the right way to skate, is cause for the majority, it’s the natural way to skate. That’s just descrimination. Because it’s a minority it’s seen as wrong.
Get over it and skate the way you want to.
hey IM A SKATER i push i get crap I DONT CARE WHY DOES EVERVYBODY BAG ON ME CAUSE THE WAY I PUSH who ever invented the word mongo im gonna beat them up dump there A$$ in the trash
When I bagan to skate I started off with some pushes just to get used to the board. My friends told me that I was goofy and that was fine, but when I came to trying an ollie I did it regular so now I need to push mongo so I can set up for tricks properly. I thinks it’s called mongo regular.
Ok thanks….all these comments made me feel better…im a girl and i skate mongo…so everyone always makes fun of me for it and cuz im a chick skater….so i dunno…but im sticking with mongo
Man, I push mongo, too. And I still don’t see what’s the problem! So what if it’s “foot leading”? Hey, Daewon Song pushes mongo, and he’s double kickflippin outta manuals. Sheesh. Here in Hawaii, nobody really cares, though. But some other people in the world just bags on skaters who push mongo.
i sk8 mongo and its WAY easier than reg. Whats so wrong with it. Its so much more comfortable. I really dont get how it messes u up. People who say its bad are retards.
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dude it doesnt matter the way u push, worry bout yur own skatin. i skate mongo and i can laser flip, nollie flip, all that good stuff. whyo gives a @#$ just skate
Mongo is a sense of originality over style. The only way mongo looks bad is when you are exaggerating the motions, such as in this video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=_Li-2eKlGuM Otherwise, it often looks unusual and sometimes is a change for the good.
The whole argument about taking too much time to set up is absolute bull. Less than a half of a second could be spent putting your front foot back in place. For those people who make this argument, you’ve never even TRIED to push mongo. It comes a lot more natural to those of us who have spent years doing it. Most people who comment on the slowness of mongo are the ones who – apparently- have to work REALLY hard to build up speed. ‘Cuz hey, all you are doing is pushing off the ground.
As for getting sponsored and stuff, if the person can’t see past the mongo and look at the actual style, they aren’t worth knowing. My local skate shop rejected me for about a month, before rolling over and calling me twice in three days about being on their team. A true example of overcoming adversity in the face of others. If you keep coming back and making the Tom Penny/Bill Danforth argument, they will just collapse.
As for other skaters, screw them! Skate anyway you want and I guarantee, if you are better than your average non-mongo skater, you WILL get signed. Don’t listen to people who say you wont make it big, ‘cuz you know they aren’t going anywhere. Are they pros? Did they make it big? Didn’t think so.
And Yeah, just so you guys know, only a few pros ever pushed mongo when they weren’t riding switch, and Daewon and Stevie do NOT push mongo.
Some acclaimed mongo skaters:
1. Tom Penny (gave it up)
2. Mark Baines (gave it up)
3. Bam Margera (gave it up)
4. Bill Danforth
Mail me if you know any more. But please, I don’t want what you THINK is mongo, like the idiot who said Daewon.
Hopefully this will be the comment to end this stupid thread, ‘cuz I’m tired of these quote unquote “Gangs of Monkeys” goin’ around actin tough ‘cuz they Skate regular (nice phrase by the way, that just might be my new band name.) These are probably the same people who idolize Sheckler, Bam, and Hawk because they are popular or “cool”.
Mongo is a better style than regular, not just because it is unusual, but because it is easier and more stylish. Skate for yourself, not for others. Peace out.
Thats right, Eric Dressen pushed mongo too.
There’s part of me that would like to end it here, because that was a pretty good wrap-up, Conor. Then again, I’m kind of curious to see how many comments this post will attract if I leave it open…
Rofl, that actually sounds like a good idea.
I picked up skating when I came to college a little over a year ago. Until recently I never really skated for anything more as an effecient way to get to class and across campus. I tried skating a few times, fell, and was kinda over it. A couple months ago I saw a pretty cool older Sector 9 video from the 90s that for whatever reason finally gave me the inspiration to start skating. I’ve been practicing and slowly getting better.
I say this for two reasons. One, yes, I am a beginner. If this bothers you and makes you want to discredit what I have to say (as I’ve seen in a couple of previous posts), get over it. You were at one point too. Two, I push mongo as a result of my previous reason for skating. I found it allowed me to go faster and be able to sleep in that much later and still make class on time. I can push normal too, although admittedly not as well, but I am practicing pushing normal. I think that being able to push both ways will only be advantageous. However, I feel that I will continue to push mongo. After a while, the proper placement of your front foot becomes instinctive. I can place my front foot in the right place and such just fine I don’t think it takes me any longer.
It’s all a matter of personal preference. For me I personally prefer mongo. To those who said we need to stop saying it’s about having fun, you should consider why you are skating. If it isn’t fun then don’t do it. It’s fun for me. I enjoy skating, I enjoy practicing and getting better. I have no aspirations of becoming pro or getting sponsored. If I ever got good enough to the point where that would be an option then that would only be even more fun, but that’s not my ultimate goal. I just skate to have fun and relieve stress as should all of you.
Wow everyone who pushes mongo are seriously #$#@s. Like kids push mongo directly after getting their fresh new Target boards haha Use your head, if you were a true skater you would want a steezey style and mongo is the complete opposite. You go faster when pushing regular and have so much more control. I bet 90% of you who push mongo can’t land a kickflip and the other 10% will never land a tre flip haha Learn to push regular noobs. You don’t see anybody who’s sponsored (whether its minor, flow, am, or pro) pushing mongo. Go outside and learn how to tweak your ugly %$@# ollies too #$# noobs.
Mongo is bad, bottom line, when i started skating i pushed mongo. For beginners its easier to skate when you can see the whole board in front of you, but after awhile when you start learning more tricks and putting together lines it does in fact take longer to set up. Yes, if you just slide both of your feet in one motion its the same, but while pushing regular, you can position your front foot where you want it as your pushing, thats why you see kids skating with there front foot off to the side or towards the middle of the board.
And the stupidest thing I have ever heard is that its faster, i would like someone to scientifically tell everyone how its faster
Also, it looks like S.
and…non mongo is not the right term
it would be called regular.
I’ve been pushing mongo forever and I get deadly speed ultra-quick and am in the correct position for a trick in a flash. When done properly, it far surpasses other techniques in terms of style and fluidity. On rough surfaces I can FLY past anyone pushing regular. It’s just the grim truth about pushing mongo.
I skate mongo and i can skate faster than any of my friends all who have longer legs than me. i was going to change to regular but then i thot wats the point its just how i push and it really makes no difference. and if u have a problem with mongo pushers u shud shove ur board up ur @$$ until it tickles ur tonsils.
I guess you guys all make valid points.
But it comes down to personal preference and each person’s individual ability at the end of the day.
And therefore further debate of this topic is moot.
Hey why hate a fellow skater if he pushes mongo? Being told to quit mongo is like being told to skate in switch for the rest of your life. Try it and you will know what I mean. Why do regulars hate mongo so much? Who cares how it looks we aren’t going out there for attention or to be told how to skate we are going out there cause skating is the thing we love. The setup time makes no difference, because what kind of an idiot would push half a second before he tricked? I dont plan to get sponsored, become pro or enter competitions. Every regular telling us that skating isn’t about fun and that we will never get sponsored is just stupid and proves that playing tony hawks video games is their true hobby.
Getting sponsored is just a bonus, so you should skate how you wanna skate and live your life without people hating on you for how you push, because they are probably the posers who cant get lives.
Pushing mongo is for posers
I used to puch mongo. until i realized it sucks. sure it felt weird at first but i just pushed around for hours and slowly got more and more used to it. so now i dont suck. mongo skaters, stop sucking and puch regular
I push mongo and there’s no way thats holding me back. The people who make fun of mongo skaters are whacked in the head. Mongo skaters are cool.
The way you push doesn’t matter at all. People say it’s harder to get sponsored while skating mongo. In reality, this makes no sense at all, because you never see skaters push in skate videos anyways—skate videos hardly even SHOW skaters pushing before atrick, because nobody cares to see a skater push a board around. If you can land tricks, you can get filmed, you can get sponsored.
Why does it matter how a person skates. I bet you that a lot of mongo skaters can actually beet some regulars at skate
theres nothing wrong with mongo
if u learn to push both ways though then u get the benefits of the speed of mongo and the more fluent trick set-ups of regular
o ye and paul rodriguez pushes mongo too
If you push mongo it make you look even worse at skating
i skate mongo for swich, if any1 made fun of me i kicked their ——
Wow it looks like I reopened the discussion. Sorry guys. All the rs, go read my message please. I don’t care if you agree, just read it.
lol i never read any of this, im just going to say, MONGO BLOWSSS!!
My friend michael ramsey, thats right, remember that name, he’s so predudice against mongo pushers, he won’t even let me touch his board, I may not be as good as him, but thats not because I push mongo, it’s because he’s skated all his life, I just started this year and I can already kickflip, pop-shovit, 50 -50, 5-0 every once in a while i can crooked grind, i can ollie over 3 boards stacked, sometimes 4. He thinks hes more supperior, im not bad, so he can heel flip, BIG DEAL!!!!! my opinion is hes jelous that i can push mongo, i personally think that skating mongo gives you more stability, and you don’t look retarded. Michael Ramsey is retarded.
Cody Blows, mongo is the way 2 live, and so does jarred.
Dun Dun is a real loser, saying that mongos for posers, he probably holds onto his thrasher magazine and tells everyone he can skate, he is just a threat to the whole skate society. I had a dream, That regulars, and mongos, can skate together equally and not be dissed by each other. Unless you get a real life dun dun, don’t talk, u poser, trash diggin, fart faced, imbred ,loser……….Who realy can’t skate to save his life.
—- MONGOS! U GUYS LOOK LIKE RETARDED DINOSAURS WHY DONT U JUST QUIT SKATING BEFORE YOU GET SHOT! SERIOSLY JUST GO HOME NO ONE LIKES YOU. AND DONOVAN CANT DO ANYTHING. I MEAN ANYTHING BUT OLLIE. BESIDES HE IS A MONGO ———-
Mongo is short for “mongoloid” which is a non-pc way of saying Retarded…but you do look like a retard when you push mongo. It doesn’t make sense, it ruins your style, and no legitimate skaters will ever let you skate with them if you haul — while in mongo…and if you think you can go faster this way you suck, you just cannot push regs. THis site is apparently full of mongo-pushers,
Ok, ive been skating mongo all my skate life, and its the best way for me, I skate goofy, and my foot is on the back of the board, all i have to do is put my front foot (the one that was pushing) on the front of the board, i dont even have to move my back foot. People who say mongo skater suck are lame, its all in the way that you feel about it, their arnt any rules about it, just do what you feel is most comefortable. I would agree that its harder to learn when you first skate mongo, but when you get real good with it, i think its better, you skate soo much faster. just do as you feel, not what other people say. By the way, some of the best skaters push mongo, (hint hint, ME)
mongo completly blows —- i mean if you seriously look no smart ——- or pro skates mongo only —– — ——- skate mongo it is straight up ugly and is for the retarded outcasts of society and ryan sheckler probly skates mongo sectretly and that makes mongo like 20 times mor —-
look i’ve bin compeating (as a mongo skater) since i was 8 i’m 16 now and have never had a problem i haven’t lost points or bin made fun of, and frankly i think mongo looks better (oh by the way i skate goofy aswell). however you all say mongo blows and stuff, however how many can honestly say you have bin signed just because you push regular, i have always hated the fact people look down their noses at us because we skate mongo, we are just as good as you it’s is seriously just a matter of preference, guys just —— GROW THE —- UP!!!!
ummmm whats wrong with mongo????
MONGO IS SOOOO —— RANK AND IF I EVER SEE SOMEONE SKATING MONGO I WILL ACTUALLY SHOOT THEM IN THE HEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
so thats pretty much whats rong with mongo
i stopped pushing mongo because when you look at yourself on the video it looks stupid and ugly so if you videotape yourself i would suggest to learn to push non-mongo
My Nigerians, please…
I’ve skated for over 20 years now. I’ve never been pro, but I was sponsored back in the day before the Army and wife came along. Yes, I skate Mongo, and always have. I can push regular and do in certain situations, but my “natural ” push is Mongo. If you’re in an empty pool where every split second counts, regular is the only way, but if you’re cruising the city all day, switching up push feet is the way to go. Mongo comes in especially nice on crappy pavement and uphill streets.
I agree that, from a purely asthetic perspective, regular just looks better. However, why should you ever, EVER give a crap about what someone thinks of how you skate? Sakting is all about personal freedom and expression, not what Harry hardflip over there thinks…
Try growing up in the sticks on —– hilly gravel half paved roads theres no possible way to survive pushing regular. mongo gives you more control on —– pavement and seeing that is all i ever dealt with my whole life i have become so smooth and natural looking pushing —-foot/mongo that it doesn’t even look much different from regular. in my own eyes i feel it gives character to my way of skating and seeing a mongo rip gives me no better satisfaction in life. I heart —-foot.
yeah i push mongo too………not people who push mongo are —- and probally cant skate.
Shut the eff up. I push Mongo. It has nothing to do with being gay, it has to do with being left footed you retards. Also if you didn’t grow up in a little rich neighboorhood with perfectly paved roads, you pushed mongo cause it gives you WAY better control of your board because your foot is near the tail it allows you to shift your board around while pushing. Also, Mongo is superior because you actually do less shifting when you are doing tres, varials, kickflips, heelflips etc. because your front foot isn’t stuck, so you can put it where you want to on the board when you are preparing, while you stupid regular pushers are moving your feed around and tripping. I wouldn’t care if you all would just shut up, it has nothing to do with how good you are. I guess now we should all ridicule left-handed people and tell them how uncool and stupid they look.
Go skate and just shut up.
dude i skate mongo an wenever ppl make fun of me i show them up at skate thats how i shut them up
Don’t really care whether any mongo pusher is good or not..the fact is that if you push mongo u never learned how to push regular or goofy..so thats just a rookie move..so push mongo all u want but if i see you at the park, you gets no respect from me even if you can tre flip el toro suckas! Learn how to push correctly..and I didnt grow up in a rich neighborhood with paved roads, i skated nyc and still do and i still had learned to push correctly!!
i push and i do find it alot eiser because its eiser to turn ur board when need sure it may look weird but i find it helpfull when i need to turn real quick cuz somthigns in the way other then that i dont get why people really care its just like how some people skate goofy and normals dont and most great skaters skate goofy
hey, dude skating is about being yourself, if you get on a board and it feels right to go mongo.. well then go for it. dont be a posuer and sell out jsut because peopel tell you you have to, —- if anything the constant pressure form your peers makes your skating more pure —- WHAT THEY SAY. do your thing,
i think mongo looks awesome , jsut becaues it looks awkward and different, but hey.. im old… liek mentioed though, if you are skating to worry about how it loosk to other people then you missed the point entirely.
For all the people who say they don’t “respect” skaters who push mongo…
Good. —- you and your “respect”. If you are bothered by the way someone else skates then you have nothing to say to me that I will EVER give half a —- about. The fact that it offends people is hilarious to me.
And add Randy Colvin to the list of mongo pushing pro’s. There was also someone else but I can’t remember who it was now.
…and pushing mongo helps with no comply tricks.
The only reason this matters to anyone is because skateboarding has progressed into some metro-sexual rockstar BS. It’s gone from Slayer to Winger, from Ak-47 to BB Gun, from Wendy O Williams to Rachel Ray. All these kids are like “I want to look good for all my guy friends”. How about you stop puttin on a fashion show and just rip? Maybe you need to go work on your novel Brian.
lol GO MONGO SK8TERS i just hate it tho cuz i dont kno how to ollie while wriding my board
i push mongo but just recently started training myself to push non mongo, their arent really any drawbacks to mongo except that it looks kinda retarted
I’m a goofy stance sk8er and I don’t push mongo normally. But when I land in a switch it feels more naturally to push mongo. Still I can’ t ollie when i push mongo.
I push mongo and i find it WAY faster than non-mongo cuz in non-mongo you push with your weak foot so eat that. im the best in my school so who the #$@$ cares?
I skate Mongo, and theres nothing wrong with it.It takes no time to set up for tricks, though it does look s***.Its about how you feel comfortable skating, Ive been skatin for 1 month and can 50/50, pop shuvit, nosehook impossible, 180 classic filp etc. , and mongos never stopped me doin anything.I win in races against my regular footed friend lol!
ok who ever says that skateing mongo is dumb and looks stupid is cus there a #@$#@ @$$ and cant skate it. most people that skate mongo have been doing it since they were young so there used to it so if you dis on mongo skaters shut the @#$# up cus your a dumb @#$#@ @#$@# and just shut the @#$# up and and just skate and have fun
plus a mongo skater can do every thing a reguler or goffy skater can do.
(if there as good as that person)
so yeh theres nothin wrong with skateing mongo so if you skate mongo dont listen to any one else im 13 and my friends dis on me for skateing mongo and i say “shut the @#$#$ up i can do any trick you can do”
wow about three yrs of replies
MONGOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I skate mongo and evrytime i do a trick i do it fakie
dude, who cares how you look when you skate? i skate mongo and nobody has ever ragged on me about it, i’ve had one or two people say it looks different but never weird. maybe i do it right? %@#$, i don’t know, either way i’m a lot more concerned about getting tre flips down pat than pushing the “accepted” way.
i tried to push regular a while ago cause i was concerned about the whole “set-up” argument but it felt too weird, i’ve been skating mongo for way too long, and really, having to move another foot as well costs me, maybe, half a second? just buy some nicer bearings!
To each his own. I think someone who’s experienced at skating mongo actually tends to look more smooth and relaxed. Also, having your foot over the back wheels and using a longer strider actually make for a sturdier and more powerful push.
I’m not sure where the notion that it was slower and less stable come from. The last place you want your only foot touching the board to be is on the front while you’re going over a bump or down a hill.
yea my one friend pushes mongo and he has been skating for a while there is nothing wrong with it i mean i skate regular but hey thats just what works for me if mongo works for u then do it…
skating is about having fun and enjoying urself not what other ppl say u should do
skate what is comfy
Alright bro, everyone who posted on this is a ____ing poseur. straight up.
mongo is wrong. its looked down on by every skater except the mongos. no matter how good a mongo gets he/she will still have no respect. you will never get sponsored. you will prevent youself from skating to your full potetial. everyone will make fun of you. you will fall more often. it looks #@$ as @#$#3. just trust me, switching over is way easier in the long run.
i used to push mongo until someone told me that it was #$@ and i just limited myself to pushing with my right foot. now i cant even push mongo to save my life. and to all those people who think you get more speed pushing mongo theyre @#$#in dumb@$$ poseurs that prolly go to the park and sit down for 4 hours to look cool.
YO, My first time on a skate board, I wrecked myself trying to go frontside around a corner and got six stitches on my knee, I was trying to push with my right leg, but didn’t know at the time that I was goofy. I always felt more comfy pushing with my right leg, and feel bad that I cant push with my left, but being goofy, what other chance do I have? It has been this way for over 20 years, and I can not change now.
i skate mongo aswell and im trying to go normal, when iskate mongo tho its my frot foot thats in the back not my back so its just weird it takes forever to set up but im just fine with my kickies
alright guys i think if you push mongo thats how it should be and if you skate regular thats fine but all this arguing about witch ways better is pointless you guys saying one way is better just makes you sound like a snob i mean people call me mongolian because i skate mongo goffy and also why cant you be sponsered if you skate mongo do they realy have to be so discrimanating i think their just jeleous cause were uniqe. love peace and trankquilaty hommies
OMG
I used to skate mongo too!!
except one day me and my friends went street skatin and I couldn’t keep up
so after that day I tried regular and I gradually got better =]
now I usually don’t skate mongo at all
ahhh good times
I miss mongo =\
I am goofy mongo and maybe because i am left handed and alot of your flip control comes from your back foot. I can keep up with everyone, set up just as fast, and it is comfortable, really 3 years and nobody has said one word about how i push. oh well to each their own. maybe i am missing out maybe im not whateve. S.K.A.T.E.
i push mongo, @!#$# pushing regular. i’d rather not fall off my board and look like an idiot trying to re-learn how to push. i’d rather look like an idiot for pushing mongo. who cares anyways? if you really care that much about someone pushing a certain way you need to smoke some weed and chill the @#$# out.
I just started skating….I didnt even know I was skating “wrong” until I checked out you tube so I could learn some tricks. I went outside to try and busted my @$$ three times in five minutes because it forced me to stop with the opposite foot. Think Ill stick with mongo. Im ambidextrious so possibly this is why I cant skate normal.
i skate mongo, been skating like that since i started , never knew it was “the wrong way” to push until a few months ago . i recently tried pushing regular and might try and get used to it for when i hit up the parks . but when im just with my buds ima push mongo , just cause my left leg is my dominant one. i cant help it thats just how i grew up . it may look crappy . but like the 1000000 other comments on here , its just bout having fun , skating is all bout having fun . and if yur pretty good . then people shouldn’t care how you push , after all they should be focused on how you do the trick not how you get there . so to all you mongo haters , how would you like it if i said you pusheed shi*y , even though that way just feels right to you . it kinda sucks . so just #$%& off and let us figure it out on our own, whether we think “ah F%#@ it idont care what people think” or “yeah it kinda does look crappy when i push that way, maybe ill try pushin non-mongo” . but when it al comes down to it , just skate and let nuthing get in yur way .
ive been skatin for a year and mongo is way eisier. it makes it easier to do fakie tricks too
MONGOS!!!! yee!!
I ride mongo, I just can’t ride anyother way, i have my left foot foreward on my board and i push with it too. If anyone gets mad or makes fun of you for riding mongo, just show them up with your beastly mongo skillz
YOU GUYS ARE ALL MONGO @#$#@
STUPID POZERS
I WILL KICK ALL YOUR @#$@# IF I SEE YOU HOMOS PUSHING MONGO
PS @#$@#$ @#$##@……../…..
THANKYOU FOR NOT PUSHING MONGO
yeah i dont push mongo, and i dont want to offend anyone out there that does push mongo. If you’re thinking of skateboarding as a career, it’s almost impossible to find a big sponsor that will take you somewhere. I just got am for girl skateboards and I’m flow for lakai. If i was mongo, they would’ve told me that i couldnt be on the team. So please, push normally.
man i skate mongo and it does take a little longer to set up but so wat i am fine wit it and im a preety good skater and yall say is there any pro mongo skaters well wait and u see alot im out
yo !
not many female skateboarders .
but i totally am . and i push mongo
I dont know about you guys, but i skateboard because of the pure freedom of the sport. pretty much no other sport in the world has NO RULES, and the freedom like skateboarding. i cant think of one single rule other than GRAVITY. so why do people make up rules and say that pushing mongo is the ‘wrong’ way to push? yea mongo does look like @#$# but skaters shopuld care about that. i guess if you purely skateboarded to look good for other people then you should probably push normal, but if youre like, what seems to be the vast minority of skaters now days, and purely skate for self enjoyment and freedom, you know that mongo doesnt matter at all. ive been mongo for over 10 years now, and love every second of it.
(p.s those who skate for themselves are the only skaters that are keeping the TRUE meaning and attitude of skateboarding alive, those who skate for others are skating for the wrong reasons.)
tyler ,
that was inspiring .
but your totally right .
except for mongo looking like @#&%
Who gives a @#$# if u push mongo…….Just Skate AND STOP HATING ON THE MONGO PUSHERS
i started pushing mongo and all my friends told me it was bad that dont keep pushing mongo and all that stuff… i have tried to change to “regular” stance but its too hard lol… but wat i now do is.. that i grab my sk8 and run with it the throw it on the floor and caught it with the speed. (hope u understand lol) that when im jumping obstacules or something like that… but when i have to go long distances i just push mongo.. and what i do is to push like if im a goofy… and then change quickly mi feet… most of my friends keep saying i stopped mongo skating but the truth is i havent lol… but im kindy trying to lol… but mongo doesnt mean retarded or noobish or anything… is just how u feel better at your sk8… its ur form of skating and how u feel more confortable using it… so ·$%$% everyone else and just have fun. wheter is u push mongo, or non mongo.
peaceee!!!!!!!!!!
first of all im regular.
2nd mongo does not make u go faster seriously wtf
3rd it looks gay
4th cant get sponsered
5th or go pro
6th u sukc
mongo is shot for mongoloin which means retarded.
angelina u cant get am with pushing mongo. if u are “am” tell me which team u ride for -.-
I have something to say that’s weird.I’m new to skateboarding and When I skate for transportation I skate regular, but when I trick I’m mongo with my right foot on the board and pushing with my left foot I tried doing ollies and pop shuvits skating regular but popping with my left foot feels wierd an skating mongo for transportation also feels weird. I’m really confused and don’t know what I’m doing help me out plz
Mainly at Bob and anyone else who say’s it looks @#$#.
Mongo technically does make you push faster. Because you have the room to balance OVER the board to get more distance/force. And how exactly does it look !@#? Why? Don’t just say ‘COZ ITZ GAY’, tell me why. There is absolutely nothing wrong with mongo pushin’.
Personally regular pushing looks weird to me. I’m a mongo but can do reg too. Regular seems too over balanced to the front, you can’t see what the whole board is doing and you’re more ‘on your toes’ pushing mongo.
Mongo also helps with switch. I get more joy out of pushing mongo than regular. It’s just more cruizy for me.
Tell me 100% regular pushers. Can you skate mongo? Or are you a pussy?
Honestly, I see mongo as a haven for all of those who start off riding for the first time. Who cares if you ride mongo, as long as you your pushing, and moving FORWARD, who cares? If you push normal, that’s good, if you ride mongo, that’s good too. If you do both, well, now you can switch ollie easier….isn’t that good?
I guess skating both ways is an advantage. Sweet
i push mongo and i dont see why people say its stupid. i get enough speed and its easy to set up for tricks.skatins about havin fun,lol its discrimination to put down mongo lol
I used to skate mongo but i heard it will help me do tricks faster and now ive really noticed a differance in my skating also i havent really switched over to reguler pushing yet because its only been a day since i started sooo every once in a while i will push of mongo for like 2 seconds but my friend helps remind me because i told him i wanted to switch over but it is kinda awkward but i heard it will go away and i skated all day yesterday and i getting used to it pretty fast
i push mongo and i tried to push regular but i cant its to hard i can do it good down streets and stuff but when it comes to sets and stuff i cant get the speed for it
idk i can go goofy or mongo,personly mongo gives you less bored controll but thaqt just about it
BILL DANFORTH SKATED MONGO THATS WHY I DO IT ALSO ANOTHER FUN FACT,JASON DILL USE TO SKATE MONGO.
I push mongo B coz its easier i can do tricks like a double kickflip but i get called ‘mongoman’ or ‘Mr.mongo’ are there any pro mongos?? ty
I push mongo, but I feel great when Im skating. Whats wrong with mongo? I love mongo!
Wow I’ve read most of the comments and only a couple have gotten close to answering the question -_- the truth is once yuh start out mongo isn’t a problem but for stairs and speed gttn back on the board is gnna be a problem
Eric Koston the cleanest street skater today says that he prefers pushing mongo because he can pick up more speed to do gaps and manual long distances.
i push REGULAR! when first learning its kind of awkward to ride the board so people ride whats comfortable. but the reason mogo isn’t considered stylish is because people tend to do ABUNCH of really quick and UNbalanced pushes instead of AFEW long balanced pushes…
I’m a girl who skates,I skate regular, and I teach all the little kids on my street how to skate. I used to teach them regular but some of them like mongo better, and now they tell me I’m pushing wrong hahah. I don’t think it looks weird or anything…I don’t even notice how people skate. A couple of my friends push mongo but its hard to tell if someones in fakie anyway. Who really cares if someone skates mongo? Like that Thrasher mag a couple months back had this whole anti-mongo section. It’s like chill… if it was that big of a deal then it would be impossible to skate like that…but it’s not…because skating is just free like that. SKATE AND DESTROY!
pushing mongo doesnt nesicarly make u worse but it puts uneeded weight on the tail
i push mongo and im awesome skater but i push non mongo when in switch
I’ve been skating mongo since the early 80’s & still do currently. However pushing is seldom since i am a vert / transition rider…. I contibute the stance to learning how to ride bananna boards, they were so skinny it seemed to help more to have the back foot straight towards the tail. Little rocks & shit could throw you off those boards in a second, so having foot placement mongo style seemed to set you up for advance warning thus preventing eating shit. I was also one of those kids who couldn’t decide between left vs. right hand & which was the dominate. I used to wear a baseball glove on my left hand then have to throw the glove down to pitch the baseball. I sometimes wonder if that has any relevance in reagrds to mongo stance? Skatebaording is not a team sport, it’s about individual expressionism therefore you shouldn’t give a shit what someone else is doing, stick to your talent, & your system. fuck everyone else.
when you see pros skate mongo ( for switch) it doesn’t look bad, i personally think pushing mongo is harder, but i perfere it, my friends all push regular but i don’t and im twice as good and they have been skating longer.
can’t u stop making fun of it, why r u worrying about us, why dont you go learn some tricks,
it’s naturally easy for regular people to push regular and it’s naturaly easy for mongo skaters why should we go through the trouble just to be able to set up i second earlier!
really why does it matter how u push, its all just skateboarding, im a mongo pusher myself and get critazived about and u no wat i dont care wat people say, if mongo is wats comfortable too then just skate screw wat other people say and just skate wats comfortable to u
I got used to skating mongo cause I started as a snowboarder. I always push with my foot behind the board. In skateboarding thats near impossible, so I started skating Mongo. I think it looks silly when people have absolutely no idea what they are doing, but I really don’t think it is that big of a deal when you see someone who clearly knows what they are doing skating in that style. And how can it look good in switch but not regular? Cause I’m goofy which is the same thing as skating switch for a regular person.. but because I’m goofy it looks ok? So strange.
Every time I see a kid at the skatepark pushing mongo I ask him to try and learn the other way. I am hesitant, because I do not want to tell the kid how to skate. BUT it is just painful. There is a reason that all of the pros push regular. If you have very little runway, then regular is a must. I remember when I stated skating there was this gap that only allowed one push, and my mongo pushing buddy could not hit it. Why… Because he could not set up. Sure it may be faster on flat ground, but when does this come in handy for skating, really? If you want speed, run as fast as you can throw your board down and give it one good push. Also, if you are being chased then put your foot farther back and you will go faster or just open up your stance and shoot the board forward. Again, this is not really needed very much at all.
There are too many reasons to push regular and it really is one of the only unwritten “rules” in skating.
You mongo guys are finding every little positive aspect, but c’mon not even Mike V would dare to skate mongo.
This is really gonna hurt but its true:
It is like arguing that smaller is actually better or that short and skinny is better than short and fat, because the former looks bigger.
I got hit by a car and just about had my right leg cutt off, now after 4 fucking years of not being able to skate, 5 operations later I finally bought a complete setup this last week and im skating fucking mongo! My rightleg is so numb i could barely feel the mofo. I dont even know which leg works better skatting wise i just carve bowls however and as fast as i can.
I saw the best mongo skater I have ever seen today, but he was not that great. I have def seen better skaters at his age, but still, he surprised me.
yea btw i skate mongo and i can varial and kickflip b4 all of my m8s
Your all posers saying oh it looks bad who gives a fuck aslong as your better than those regualr faggots
Mongo sucks guys no offence but thats not the way skateboarders are suppose to skate and no pros push mongo only some push mongo switch and if you ever want to go big then stop pushing mongo unless your skating switch
who ever pushes mongo keep doing it because i love a good laugh shits rad
I push mongo only when I skate switch.
it’s best to learn all forms. learn to skate regular and goofy. learn to kick regular and mongo. next, learn one arm hand-stands and push with the other hand.
Umm, I think I push mongo, but I need this answered: I am right footed, but I push with my left.
When I set up for an ollie, i put my left foot forward and it looks like a nollie. What is that?
i skate mongo peopele say its gay but i love it i use to ride scoter thats why and mong misses up ur shoes but i love mongo
I pushed mongo, and I’m 15, Rob Dyrdek pushed mongo until he was 15, then he switched because its harder for mongo pushers to get sponsored because for some stupid reason people think that pushing mongo looks stupid and its harder, but its not.
i skate mongo my best friend tells me he thinks its badass because how it looks when i skate and if anyone thinks its lame they’ll have to deal with it im never going to switch because i learned this way and im staying this way if people hate it because its harder and they make fun of you its because they’re haters and they cant do it keep mongo alive man people making it go extinct
ma crew is TN.E team new era its huge and we skate how we want to just be down for your shit =P
I’ve been skating since 1988. Back then, there were more mongo skaters, probably about 50/50. Most people didn’t care much back then about it, but sometimes there would be some trash talking from the regular pushers. It was mostly just messing around, no one really took it serious, but every once in awhile you would run across someone who was a real jerk about it. No one cared if you had a regular or goofy stance, either.
Skateboarding was such a small scene back then compared to now, even in the bigger cities. You were just stoked to find someone else to skate with, you didn’t care how they stood or pushed their board.
Everyone will naturally lead with one particular foot when they first begin to skate, just like they will naturally push with one particular foot. What’s the big deal with that? No matter if you skate regular or goofy or mongo there will always be that one particular way that feels most natural to you.
If you push regular, you will naturally want to push mongo when switch, and vice versa. Of course a pro would have the skill to push and lead with either foot, that is one reason why they are pro, but many pros did start out mongo. Some of the younger pros probably won’t admit it, but ask any of the older dudes and you will get a different answer.
The anti-mongo thing really began to take off in the late 90s, a time when skateboarding was really beginning to get popular. In the early 2000s it became about image. It really didn’t matter how good you were (granted if you could at least do some good tricks), it was all about how cool you looked. Punk, thug, beard-o, what ever. If you had the right look and attitude, you were the shit. Kids look up to that sort of stuff, and want to be like that. When young kids want to be like the pros, they are going to want to skate like the pros, and not many pros are seen doing mongo.
At the end of the day, it is not going to matter as long as you had fun. When you are older, who is going to give a shit? That’s right, no one. And for those of you who are learning to push regular to up the chance of you getting sponsored, well forget about it. Skateboarders are a dime a dozen these days and kids are coming up quick.