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Premium Member Comment by BJ on January 18, 2011 at 13:49: Hah. So what you are saying Hop is that there could have been a pivital moment in time?

Premium Member Comment by Dani on January 18, 2011 at 13:49: Whoah! And Bj, awesome footage!

Premium Member Comment by Dani on January 18, 2011 at 13:48: That was awesome Hop! Thanks for sharing!

Comment by Hop on January 18, 2011 at 12:45: The pivotal moment was Tony Alva 1976. Hang Ten slalom world championships.

Tony the new kid on the block vs Henry Hester. Older generation vs New generation?.

In the video below, look at the start. Hester mongo, Alva front foot.

Alva was a skater that everyone wanted to be and everyone copied. Maybe the momentum started here.

Premium Member Comment by BJ on January 18, 2011 at 12:27: OK.

Just watched a vintage video of skateboarding on the late 60's. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3436531041855899171#

Scary to think that it is clasified as vintage when I was a kid!!!!!!!!!!!

One kid pushed normal and one mongo. So I admit that I am slightly incorrect. Only slightly though.

However I do reckon that that we skated faster than 30k, benbro. We were going at least 33k :)

Can you tell I am bored sitting at home looking after the kids while it is raining!

Premium Member Comment by Tom Radinski on January 18, 2011 at 10:17: I learnt to skate in the late 80's, all the kids in my neighbourhood pushed mongo so i did too. Probably was a geographical thing, no internet to learn these things.

ASRA Admin Comment by Bugs on January 18, 2011 at 9:14: BJ, I learn to skate in the mid-70s, and I push with my back foot (non-mongo), as did everybody I knew at that time. Perhaps it was one of those geographical things - you learnt from the kids around you, and if they were mongo you became mongo too.

Premium Member Comment by BJ on January 18, 2011 at 8:54: Yeah I know. But that is how we started. It was still skating. I had almost given up skating at 19 when I started working for myself when you were born Benbro. So it was probably another 8 years before you can remember when you started to skate. There had to be a change over from a dominant front foot pushing to a dominant back foot pushing at some stage. I skated with probably 50 other kids over probably 10 years. And from memory they all pushed mongo. We all learnt on scooters. as Skateboards weren't around much when were were little tikes. So maybe that is where it came from.

Premium Member Comment by Benbro on January 18, 2011 at 8:30: what changeover,?everyone has always skated there own way,i have been pushing with my back foot all my life on every sort of deck and most people i kno have done this...the difference is that back when you guys are refering to,you were skating on small boards with tiny trucks and shit little wheels.the setup wasnt capable of doing 30klm,now we have gear that can deal with speed and is way more practical for riding roads,..the control aspect has always been the same.you were either tick tacking from the back at slow speed or you were weight forward,control over the board carving....you guys are mixin up different types of skating and refering to it as one.....tripping!

Premium Member Comment by Tom Radinski on January 18, 2011 at 6:53: Interesting BJ, I noticed the change over around the same time as when the double kick trick decks became popular.

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