THE FUTURE OF SKATEBOARDING! Holy ####.

[stringtheory]

My favorite part of this thread is that skogging is supposedly this different and out of the box skateboarding discipline, but apparently unless you learn it from Chris you must be doing it wrong.

In any discipline of skating, aren't there many different styles and ways to express yourself? So, if we are to believe skogging is a legitimate discipline then can't we also say that doing it, albeit slightly different than Chris, can still be considered skogging?

Or, do you have to pay an hourly wage similar to a junior associates wages at a law firm to learn?

[Pat S]

damn fcking right mark.

[Mile_High_Mark]

[fluidfruit]

...It looks very difficult to learn, and very difficult to do...

It is. Skogging is the most gnarly thing EVER done on a skateboard. Of course you have to be cYa to ever accomplish the unreal skill that it takes.

As for those fixed pushers, looks like it would be the next big thing in skateboarding. Where can i buy a fix pusher board???

[sk8norcal]

so how is skogging different from distance pushing ?
here's what the future will look like...

YouTube - World Championships Scootering 2008 -...

YouTube - World Scooter Championships 2008 -...

YouTube - mogo commercial

YouTube - WORLD CHAMPS KICKSLED

[Mall Grab]

Mark's fixed pushing vid absolutely saved my day. ROFL.

By the way, is there a deck length restriction in skogging? You know, with the added space you could take that second cross step and actually complete the trick, but... I guess that wouldn't be allowed, would it?

After all, the purpose of skogging is not to do tricks but to look like a drunk tightrope walker while rolling along on a slalom board.

Man, I never get tired of the skogging threads. It's a gift that keeps on giving.

[Steve Ignorant]

Hey guys, I invented this new thing.

It's called skopping. It's where you stop skating by foot braking with all two feet. You can even do it from mongo!

The price is 5,000 dollars a lesson, even though you still won't do it like me because I invented it.

[geolemon]

I think it looks intriguing - great idea for fitness - that's really one big reason I have been learning LDP. This is another thing, probably totally different muscles too.

That being said - I'm totally not digging the "long extended one-footed carving" thing.
(and all that means is, I personally wouldnt)

Reminds me of when I made the transition from skiier to snowboarder.
My mom signed me up for skiing lessons when I was five - did it my whole life.
Then, snowboards were invented when I was a tween... as a teen I took it up, and was hit with an epiphany:
"snowboarding just FEELS so much more intense than skiing!!" - because you have your whole body and two legs into every single carve - where on skiis you are really weighting on your inside edge of only one foot, on any given carve.

So - I don't want my skateboarding to become "skiing".

[Tonyz]

Because not all of us can afford $100 skogging lessons and its not something you can learn on your own.

duh.
Who wants to teach me how to push? I've got $30 to spend.

Dude, skogging was very easy to learn, I don't get why you need a lesson. It was one of the first things I learned on a longboard, I can push all 4 ways and feel normal on any foot. It just takes practice, balance and determination.

[stringtheory]

I agree.

However, the official ruling council of skogging will most likely disagree with you.

[rodgon]

hey guys, i think after opening my schedule more and more, that THURSDAY afternoons like at noonish or 1pm would be the best all around time.

PM me fro more details.

Yandall, let me know if this works for you, SUNDAY at the same time for a second run for those who want to skate more.


just come chill and have a good time, learn to skogg or not. good vibes all around ^_^

[enemy combatant]

And all these years I thought it was just called pushing!

There is less here than meets the eye...

[sAMOa]

And all these years I thought it was just called pushing! There is less here than meets the eye...

come PUSH with us and you'll see that the concept of it and the reality of making alternate shifts of weight and carving is where the skog shines. but heyyyy, why yak about it? we're doing it!

we're not talking about pushing down the block, we're talking about keeping a good 8-12mph clip using wiith both legs to shoot down cement for long long long long distances. and then there's the dance, the movement of a waltz on steroids with a funky flair for fun! you may think it's queer but the locals here have found it to be an upcoming movement on the boardwalk.

you don't have to call it "skogging" or "pushing". It's a brand and style trademarked with moves you don't see very often.

and there's a right way to do it and a very "wrong" way to do it. so, with that.. pushing with both legs can be your definition but it may change when you see the big boys do it. it really makes the "mongo" term absurd and quite frankly .. redundant.

cYa






cYa

[Pat S]

and there's a right way to do it and a very "wrong" way to do it

This is where you lose me. Isn't skateboarding about doing things your own way? Not trying to mimic how someone else does it? I understand that for it to be called "skogging" it requires you to push all 4 ways... but past that it's up to the individual to interpret it.

If I were to skog, by following the directions on your site, push normal, mongo, switch around, push switch regular, push switch mongo, and alternate... but not in the exact order you do it, or perhaps in a differnt style... maybe throw in a boardwalking trick while alternating stances, maybe push a little more switch than regular to work on my switch riding, or do it a more leisurely pace than you... it wouldn't be skogging?

If so, thats fucking bullshit and skogging can go fuck itself as far as i'm concerned. I don't want to be associated with something that closed-minded.

I'll make my own discipline called "Jogating" (Jog + skating) and teach people to do it..... maybe even teach lessons. It'll take over the jersey shore boardwalks... hahah

[243racing]

Haha I've never realized how much that video makes fun of the "bike messenger" fad

[sAMOa]

This is where you lose me. Isn't skateboarding about doing things your own way? Not tr
If so, thats fucking bullshit and skogging can go fuck itself as far as i'm concerned. I don't want to be associated with something that closed-minded.

the very wrong way to do it leads to eating ####. it's that simple.

no need for me to deal with someone obviously without stoke.

and besides, who are you? what are you good for? bitching seems to be your best skateboarding technique!

it's people like you that love throwing rocks. come on down and skate with us. we'll break you in and show you that your mouth skates better than you!

cYask8

[243racing]

[enemy combatant]

and there's a right way to do it and a very "wrong" way to do it. so, with that.. pushing with both legs can be your definition but it may change when you see the big boys do it.

Get bent. I did an 8 mile pusher last year with exactly two push stances and some old fashioned pumping carves.

And the way you do that little on-the-board bunny hop to switch feet is way beyond "wrong." It's 100% homosexual.

[sAMOa]

Get bent. I did an 8 mile pusher last year with exactly two push stances and some old fashioned pumping carves. And the way you do that little on-the-board bunny hop to switch feet is way beyond "wrong." It's 100% homosexual.

homosexual? HAHHAHAHHAHAHA.

getting private messages that you suck. all the proof I need. so you went 8 miles eh?



cYa

[VulgarDisplayCFH]

I just don't understand the exaggerated lifting of the legs