my switch push makes i look like i've never skated before, i hate doing it. it's one of those things that's hard to work on when people are around, haha.
Yeah, I could see that... I'm lucky in the respect that my buddy and I do these little "theme" sessions, be it just cruising, spot hunting, manny pads, or whatever... we spent 1/2 our session just skating switch, and it's rad with him because we're both at the same place and age so we look regular together, haha.
These are the mysteries of skateboarding... I can push switch do almost any(flatground) trick I can regular, switch(Maybe because I learned switch flips like a week after I learned reg kickflips), yet I can hardly skate any tranny over 4ft. Ironically I like watching dudes skate tranny over street. I'd trade all my switch shit that people struggle with to be able rip on any transition I see.
I dig it all, but my biggest problem is I always forget what stance people are (people on video at least) and forget that what I just saw was switch because so many dudes are just fluent as hell either way they go. My same homie mentioned earlier and I were talking about Rodney's interview... stance-less will eventually be the norm. From watching a lot of the local kids to the big videos, it just looks like the next subtle evolution of skating. It's like our boards became ambidextrous after the 80's and now the people that ride them are catching (and in some cases have) caught up.