Who invented switch stance

Step 3 Front foot becomes push foot and this step reeks of the dreaded "mongo" syndrome. But help is on the way! Mongo is just part of the skog movement! This is where mongo and skog haters lack intelligence and rightly so since they choose to ridicule that which they cannot perform.

Step 7 This step helps bridge Steps 3 and 6. It occurs while the pushing foot is on the ground, the foot on the board shifts back or forward depending where you are in the skogging process. It is by far the most difficult to master and as speed increases, it creates the best environment for severe wipeouts.

Step 4 This appears a mystery to many people how the back foot ends up in the front. But it's "slight-of-foot magic".

During the strides, the back foot slides towards the front and back to rotate the legs as the unweighting and weighting occurs. Bottom line is that the switch of the lead foot occurred and now the opposite rotation takes place.

Step 5 This is the reverse of Step 2. Keep in mind if you had problems in Step 2, you can bet this step will be much harder. The key in this step is to think that your feet are back in HOME position. In this HOME position, you can feel the balance required for switch stance i.

Step 6 So here we are, the opposite of Step 3 and one step from skogging nirvana. Which is something that many have not found and which is why I am going into great demonstration lengths. Many want to learn since the concept is easy but the application varying in degree of difficulty for the average skateboarder.

Chris' main objective for encouraging the masses to use both legs to push is so that equal muscle development is gained and from this one can become more healthy, robust and happier all from an aerobic skateboard outing! Truly it can be a full bodied workout yielding an exercise of the ages.

He became one of the first people to skate switch stance in Gonz went on to further influence skateboarding as it modernized with the video Video Days, by Blind skateboards a skateboard company he created around The name Blind was an intentional slight to his old sponsor, Vision.

And in , Gonzales was the first to kickflip his namesake, the Gonz Gap at Embaracadero and was the first skater to do the Wallenberg set 4 block. After leaving Blind Skateboards, Mark went on to start two new companies. Gonz has also established a parallel career as an artist, having shown at the Alleged Gallery in New York and various galleries worldwide. Some of his fans include Donald Trump and Sean Combs, both of whom have collections of his artwork.

He has been in a few movies, including Harmony Korine's cult film Gummo, where he wrestles a chair. He has published a book called Broken Poems and in he was awarded the Legend Award by Transworld Skateboarding[2]. Cut to Mullen has since paid a dozen visits to the dome, each time with a list of new tricks, or newly executed old tricks, to document.

To Mullen, the ramifications are thrilling. This is the infrastructure through which we perceive all things. I figured the most difficult thing I could do would be to develop that skill set in the other wrong stance. Mechanically, this is a fakie laser, but visually, it has nothing to do with fakie.

It is a switch trick that could not be done switch, and proof that a stance can be broken. In this case, the board turns degrees, from a near standstill. I went back to footage as old as 27 years ago, and I do not see it. This trick is accessible to others—not exotic or new—which is part of its strength. There are skaters who can do hard tricks, but within that top tier, skaters who have a flow from within are often considered the best, as long as their tricks are good enough.

This speaks to how much the community values individual expression over metrics of prowess, such a trickiness or power. In that black dome with the shadows, your instincts to slide it into control are almost too hard to fight.

I had to come back to this trick three times for that reason alone. Because breaking my stance allowed me to center with greater poise, I could generate the torque without pitching my upper body forward—to some extent, you have to stand fakie because of it, like a garden-variety fakie kick-flip—which allowed me to stay behind the board once the final casper-flip spun, eventuating in the full spin, so that I could keep the overall rotary motion and pivot backwards, instead of pitching forward to a dead stop.