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Originally Posted by Wells
Start pushing with your back foot. Do it now. You'll thank me later.
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Absolutely. But since I know what a tough habit it is, and you wouldn't want to do it without some understandable reasons for doing it (I'm sure a religious belief in "you'll thank me later" isn't enough), here's some reasons:
1) as you mentioned - hard to footbrake.
2) at speed, your mongo-push is dangerous because of the heavy swing-mass in front of your rear foot - the slightest bounce of your front wheels and leverage dictates it'll shoot to the left or right. Compare that to pushing normal - your foot is over the front wheels, and the board's mass is trailing - that means that a disturbance to your rear wheels, and physics dictates the board will be pulled back into line. Much safer.
3) foot repositioning is not only awkward, but dangerous - each time you set up you have to move your rear foot forward, then when you step back on the board, you have to reposition
both feet. That also means less control, less stability, and a different foot position is most likely - inconsistant.
4) it's simply unstylish. It looks as unbalanced and sketchy as 2) and 3) shows it actually is.