“Use your nose, that’s your tail going switchstance.”
Some more origins of skateboarding history from TWS and once again it’s the eccentric mind of Mark Gonzales that lead the charge where no one had gone before.
Sample:
Guy Mariano: Sometimes he’d be trying a trick and because you had never seen anybody do it, it just seemed foreign and kind of wacky. Maybe too much of a circus trick. But then you would see him make it and immediately you knew–this dude is on to something. Even some of the stuff from his Real parts, where he lets the board go under the bar and he goes over and all that. I would still think like, “Okay, is this just some weird kooky Mark Gonzales stuff?” But low and behold you wait a few years and… the type of skating Mark Gonzales has done over the years is exactly where skateboarding is today. Everybody does the hippy jump thing now. Everybody does a frontside invert. And it’s all because Mark Gonzales stayed this true original. He never let vert die. He never let freestyle die. He always kept it awkward. He always showed us what was possible on a skateboard and what was next. Like nobody else. Yeah he invented noseslides. He kept the no comply alive. He kept eggplants cool. He’s everything.
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