Self absorbed? You need to reread your posts. It's quite typical for someone so judgmental to say such a thing.
I still skate every day and love it. even old men can have fun and juxtapose their style's next to grasshoppers anytime they want.
come skate with people that let their skating do the talking. wanna race downhill? wanna grind some coping. wanna go 70mph? wanna freestyle? we're down. skogging is a small fraction of the skateboarding equation. go ahead and slam skogging all you want. it ain't all I do but it is indeed something I love to do and am proud of it.
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cYask8
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rodgon has requested one day a week meeting somewhere like Crystal Pier to hook up and shut the little peons up that complain about the cost of skogging lessons. or even screw "skogging" . I'm teaching basic skateboarding techniques for flatland switch pump, push and carve. If someone wants lessons on grinding frontside/backside coping, thats for another day. If someone wants to slide 10,000 feet, that lesson can be had too. i raced last weekend and placed 3rd in the Open Division at the Pumphouse Dowhill event. I do more than skog on my board. In fact, I'm getting closer to pulling off the Samoan Squat, a trick I invented back in the 70's. I have a long list of skateboarding accomplishments before it went mainstream counterculture in the 80's.
skogging is just a new wrigggle on a skateboard that allows me to express myself in a very animated form. the video's posted here are old but as many have told me, they are yet to come close to getting it down.
when you skate hard for over 40 years, you get the idea things can be better. my skateboard is more than just something to hang on the wall at night and admire the graphics. it's an exercise machine in it's very basic form. i've taken the movement which allows you to become adept at switch skateboard stance. imagine pumping goofy or regular. imagine alternating mongo push with regular while switching lead feet. i dont imagine that. i do it. i do it not for a few feet but for long distances while getting a wholesome exercise. And that is the goal. Aerobic and leg building (Pictures coming)
i got good at it simply by changing my running routines by inserting a skateboard in between me and the ground while running.
it can be done on any board. just seems my design for my view of what a skateboard transportation board should be is FLAT. my 18 year old son who's a mad fingerflipper loves the board for cruising fast downhill.
i'm not trying to convert anyone to going the distance. i've turned on over 10 million people to the movement and YES, anyone can do it, it is not a new concept, it just makes sense. and to me, using a skateboard as a transportation vehicle, i can't think of a better way to motor around town than my skogging deck design that Galac has nailed down for me. We're both collaborating and making this deck available in custom format. We prefer you let us dial it in for you with trucks and wheels since optimizing it for you can help your feel for the switch-stance-pump-and-carve stoke of "self generated" speeds for the cruise.
stay tuned here for Rodgon to announce when and where the long cruisers will assemble and chat while taking up this movement. LDP'ers can pick up the switch on these cruises and best of all .... you can see the skog in person .
come on down and have A FREE LESSON or continue complaining it costs too much money to learn. or perhaps your learning technique is so far off base that you'll swallow your slant on doing it and come up with your own thread so you can be ridiculed too! whatever the case, the stoke of skateboarding cannot be found on this messageboard. it is up to you to get off your ass and find the stoke while applying yourself to do it.
have you ever skated with a 50+ year old seasoned skater? there's lots of us around. try hooking up. learn something more than the comic book movements with your itty bitty hood of fools thinking their way, is the only way to skate. not because they think it looks funny but moreso that they are too pigheaded to try something new that can only benefiit their arsenal of skateboard moves.
every person that has seen the skog in person realizes that there's something of a lesson to be learned. or forget the skog and just switch-stance-pump-carve-push.
as some kids have shouted out as I come blasting by, 'THAT'S NOT SKATEBOARDING' . I love it. I am different and outside of the box. always have, always will.
keep laughing, smiling and smoking up the pavement.
cYa
Niice. 504 people turned over every day of your life.
Wouldn't anyone WANT to be adept at pushing w/both feet? That's certainly my goal. I skated for years only pushing w/my right foot--wish I'd taken the time (and discipline) to practice both! Put some balance in your body- take the good, and let the rest go...I really don't see the argument in all of this...
And telling people they would be more suited to a razor scooter when you fruit boot.... right. I'm done here.
Steve: I nearly sprayed my monitor with coffee when I read your post.
That honestly made my day. I think "fruit booting" has a better ring to it than "skogging..." When you see it being done, fruit booting just rolls off the tongue.
and I concur on steve's post... can I sig the last paragraph of that?
Wouldn't anyone WANT to be adept at pushing w/both feet? That's certainly my goal. I skated for years only pushing w/my right foot--wish I'd taken the time (and discipline) to practice both! Put some balance in your body- take the good, and let the rest go...I really don't see the argument in all of this...
I doubt that there's who would be apposed to knowing how to push all four ways, but to make this big a deal out of it?
I mean seriously, it's about as impressive as being able to raise your eyebrows independently of one another.
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im sure even if he is charging people to take lessons its not a multi million dollar enterprise.
that being said, he is obviously joking in most of his posts about some things but other he is being genuine about. i like the word skogging, kinda neat.
I'm gonna go to the beach and push mongo, goofy, and regular and constantly alternate. And then I'm going to exaggerate my leg movements... I'll make a video and give it a weird name, too. Lessons will be offered at high prices to do this, even though I learned it in a few hours. Oh and by the way, I'm old and "seasoned."
I'm gonna go to the beach and push mongo, goofy, and regular and constantly alternate. And then I'm going to exaggerate my leg movements... I'll make a video and give it a weird name, too. Lessons will be offered at high prices to do this, even though I learned it in a few hours. Oh and by the way, I'm old and "seasoned."
Killed...
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sorry, i've never seen this thread until now, but just had to re-iterate that skogging is a lame attempt at making your mark on the skating world. Vote "No" for skogging!
I wish I had the skills. But I'd never let anyone see me doing it.
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Remember, we're riding on thin pieces of wood. We're fat asses and there's tons of stress. If you ride these skateboards how you're supposed to, things are going to happen to them.
Re: THE FUTURE OF SKATEBOARDING! Holy ####.
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504 people turned over every day of your life.
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