Rodney Mullen in World Industries: Rubbish Heap

Not to downplay the one footed 540 shuv but Rodney did that in 1989 It's the fifth trick here [VIDEO]

>Weird thing is, though, I find it way easier to do them fakie Not weird at all. Shuvits were originally a trick you did at the front of the board. When you pivot the board at the front the pavement that's rolling past catches on the front wheels and shoves them back for you, making the trick almost effortless. That's how the trick was meant to work - it took advantage of your forward momentum and put it to work for you to spin the board. Then some time in the 80s people figured out how to turn the board around during an ollie. It became known as a pop-shuvit, even though it was done from a different end and worked totally differently. I guess because they both turned the board around. Some time later again... (and I'm not too sure when this finally happened)... people who had learned pop-shuvits, but *didn't* know the original shuvit, must have looked at the pop-shuvit and figured "well, if this a *pop* shuvit... then a shuvit must be the same motion without the pop". It sounds so logical. Of course it also wasn't true, but very easy to see why that happened. The pop shuvit works the way it does because it's designed to turn the board around in the air, and it works well for that,…