Hey, Freaks. First, some notes :

• Just about everyone pushes mongo when they go switch (check Koston in "Menikmati" and Kalis in "Photosynthesis").
• Other names for Mongo : Piss Peddler, Back peddler, Pushing Dan (as in Bill Danforth, the unofficial King of Mongo), Pussy Footing... and we're sure there are more.

Now, the letters :

Judging by the way Andrew Reynolds mounts his board, throwing down with the back hand, I'd wager he started piss pedaling. The only people I know that jump on their boards this way are all mongo, or recovering mongos. --Waxtron@aol.com

I'm a skater from jersey. I met Chris Cole about 6 years ago in Trenton. We were skating this 3 up, 3 down setup right by that 9 stair rail. He was definitely pushing mongo to set up for a nollie backside tail on the little rail. I was pretty convinced back then that it was a fakie nose, but sure enough... he's CONFIRMED! --Richard C. Allen, ginzberg@eden.rutgers.edu

I'm sorry Rich, but we can't condem the man on hearsay. --Carl

Dude, Chris Cole doesn't push Mongo... the proof is in Tranworld's "Videoradio."

There you go, Rich. But then, maybe it IS another case of a Reformed Mongo. See below. What is your source, Patrick? --Carl

I think that Christoff Cole should be promoted to the confirmed list. He has gone on record saying that he started out shit-pedaling and only (relatively) recently corrected himself because of how socially unacceptable it is. He went on to try to justify the Mongo Method as superior, for the reason that you can hop into trick-stance, and easier and "cus you don't fall when you hit little rocks." --Patrick Thompson, Wyldstallyon1989@aol.com

In case noone else points it out, in the "Menikmati" dvd, Tom Penny pushes mongo towards the launch ramp. There ya go, one of the most stylish guys ever, started out mongo. There IS hope for you guys after all! --Dave Waite, UpSg92@aol.com

Koston says Natas doesn't push Mongo. You can add a confirmed Mike Frazier and a questionable for Mike Crum. --Cory

Natas started Mongo, so tell Koston to chill or we'll pull out the old viddy of him... We're looking into Frazier and Crum. --Carl

Kevin Harris is the best skater, but he pushes mongo and looks like a fruit. --Catherine Ugrin, cugrin@shaw.ca

Kevin Harris, the freestyler? Does that count? -- Carl

Not that I didn't appreciate the Mongo Men list, but haven't you ever noticed that everyone pushing, um, fakie but not switch is basically pushing mongo? Just an observation. And didn't Chris Cook push Mongo? Jason Lee, or someone, also had a funny thing to say about Mongo, that it "looked like you were running to catch up with the skateboard." --P.J. Canale, pcanolie@hotmail.com

Bam does NOT skate mongo, if anyone has seen him in CKY, CKY2K, or CKY3 they will know what I mean. --ELEMENT5225@aol.com

Settle down Element boy. Go check the list again. AND, go check CKY2K again... -- Carl

Check out CKY2K and see for yourself... Bam and the Mongo pushin' can be detected. Ride on. --JonoUnLtD@aol.com

I started pushing Mongo. Skated that way until I was about14 or 15 and a friend kicked me out of his car and said "you need to push the right way all the way home." So I did. A few miles. Been pushing the right way ever since. But I prefer the term shit-foot over Mongo. But that is just personalpreference. --Tim Butler, tim@slapmagazine.com

My name is "Pete Marx", and I know of an ex-Mongo-er that everybody loves... his name is Paul Rodriguez... I love the little guy too, but I have to tell ya that the kid was a "ponytailed penis peddleing prodigy." Sorry Pauly, I'm sure you'll get me back some how. --Pete, ALkuNO@aol.com

I push mango. Does that count? --Fourstar0004@aol.com

hey, what up. this iz joe, i just wanted to let ya know, cuz i looks like ur "doin sumthin". ok? peace. --Snboarder90@aol.com

Get out a here... both of you. Jeezus. -- Carl

I've got some really good footage of Randy Colvin Mongo pushing his ass off... it's in an early 90's promo video that World put out that featured Randy and Dune (chris pastras)... if you want the video, write me back and let me know. I dont really have any use for it anymore. Later, Bo Golden, golden_bo@hotmail.com

Are you talking about "Two World industries Men"? Got it. --Carl

Carl,

The evils of mongo footing know no bounds. There was this guy who was in my friends Industrial design course at uni. He was a complete monkey, with fashion dreads and a penchant for being carefully casual just to knock other hippies bitches, if you know what I'm getting at here. He rocked a longboard which is the begginings of the horror (there are a bunch of longboarding hippies in Wellington) and he Mongoed it in the most reckless fashion. Everytime we saw his front foot flailing around in the air we'd wince in anticipation of a dislocated hip or snapped spine;

such was his lack of coordination. In his innocence/ignorance he thought he was God's gift to the free spirited women of Wellington.

Anyway, d-day was upon us. Innocently munching our steak and cheese pies we rounded the corner only to see our front footed friend laid out in the middle of the street, left leg at ninety degrees to his torso, calf bent backwards up to his armpit. Screeching and wailing. It was a sickening, horrid, yet beffitting end. Perhaps there is a lesson to be learned from this?

Cheers. --Matt Hunkin, hunkin_m@yahoo.com

PS Oh yeah we have an M.P (member of parliament/ kinda like a congressman I guess) who longboards to parliament in his hemp suit, dreads a-flailing, battling for the cause of pot smokers nationwide. He, I am afraid to report, is also Mongo.

Carl,

How about mongo women? My friend, Heather. pushes Mongo. I like to tease her about it. One day when I was teasin' and a man name Dave Ruel (you know, the pool guy) said that Mongo was very practical and attempted to demonstrate that it helped to push Mongo, especially when street skating, to keep your balance when skating over cracks and bumps. I don't know if he was being serious or just trying to gain brownie points with my friend nevertheless I seen him do it

and it really didn't impress me to make the switch. Do these other Mongo footers have an explanation why it is better to push that way? Maybe you should interview them so they can have a say? Have a nice day. --Suzin Stucky, suzinstucky@earthlink.net

There is no explaining Mongo away. Dave was most definitely putting the moves on your friend... and undoubtedly happy to have found a follow Mongo. --Carl