Mongo foot
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Mongo foot in skateboarding refers to using one's front foot for pushing. Normally a skateboarder feels more comfortable using their back foot to push, while their front foot remains on the board. In the minority case of a mongo footed skateboarder, the opposite is true. Some consider mongo footedness to be a faux pas in skateboarding[1], as a skateboarder requires more time to prepare for a trick, and some simply find it aesthetically displeasing. So while mongo foot skating has some drawbacks, it doesn't really offer any advantages except maybe some comfort for a beginner. Some skateboarders who do not push mongo in their regular stance may still push mongo when riding in switch stance, rather than push with their weaker back foot.
Mongo footed is also known as Shit Foot. Beginners and children will sometimes resort to mongo pushing and the result is a handicapped ability to setup for tricks. While not detrimental to one's ability to become a good skater, it will hamper you in some situations. For example: You want to ollie a set of stairs and you have a small landing on top to gain your speed, mongo footers can have trouble getting enough speed and still have time to get their feet set for the ollie. This, however, is easily averted with practice, since the feet positioning only requires about a millisecond more of time.
In the skateboarding video game Tony Hawk's Underground, mongo footedness is used insultingly on a bumper sticker that appears in a cutscene reading "Cops push mongo."
