Tag: Enrique G. Cubillo
Switch-Kick Locomotion: A first classification of bilateral alternating propulsion on wheeled platforms
In this paper, Enrique Cubillo proposes the first formal classification of switch-kick locomotion—bilateral alternating propulsion on wheeled platforms—as a distinct locomotor class. To the author’s knowledge, no existing biomechanical, sports science, or physical literacy literature has formally defined bilateral alternating propulsion on wheeled platforms as a distinct locomotor class with necessary and sufficient constraints. The paper documents what appears to be no systematic or formalized switch-kick instruction in global skateboarding pedagogy.
SpikeBoarding is Skiing: Mechanical Equivalence of Poling-Driven Propulsion on Roller Skis and Skateboards
This article by Enrique Cubillo, creator of SpikeBoarding, argues that the two primary techniques of SpikeBoarding—Stand Up Spike (SUS) and Cubi-X-Cross (CXC)—constitute skiing under any biomechanically coherent definition. The distinction between ‘roller skiing’ and ‘SpikeBoarding’ is categorical, not mechanical. Cubillo presents video evidence demonstrating the presence, stability, and repeatability of the coordination patterns measured in the roller-ski literature, concluding that SpikeBoarding is skiing.
