Cab, half cab, fakie vs. switch, ...

TheQuailman

TheQuailman

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Who remembers these arguments back in the day?

Like when people argued over what was cab and half cab and if these should be even used. I think cab meant switch take-off, switch landing. Like you could throw a cab 3, cab 7, cab 10. Then half cab was switch off, land foward, so that would be like half cab 5, half cab 9.

Then I remember a huge argument on NS was over skiing backwards should be called fakie or switch. Because people were like, on a snowboard its called switch, but for skis it should be fakie.

Another was zero spin vs. switch zero spin, because a zero spin is already switch, so it was dumb to say switch zero spin.

Just remembering these old trick names and the debates. If you know any other ones from back in the day, post them up.

 
ive never heard of the whole half cab thing. for me its just cab or switch, and switch zero... no spin
 
i remember my friend used to think cab meant switch 180. so a cab 5 was a switch 7 because the cab counted as a 180. he was pretty slow
 
If any of this, minus the switch skiing vs. fakie skiing, was actually argued about then shit god damn we were stupid. Almost all of it could be determined using common sense.
 
Common sense like neither skiers nor snowboarders can "cab"?

well i suppose if a snowboard was mounted regular but facing backwards on the board and you were riding switch which would be regular... and then landed regular spinning at least 360. But you can't really do that on skis.

so...
 
Remember the long debate about whether an off axis 180 could be considered a corked spin since a full 360 rotation wasn't completed?
 
i think cab should just be for snowboarding (of course skateboarding too, but between skiing and snowboarding) cause it's switch frontside. and as for fakie, i think it sounds plain dumb!
 
NO

youre all dumb as hell

first of all (on a skateboard) a switch ollie is riding switch popping off your nose (the back of your board)

a fakie ollie is riding switch popping off your tail.

cab is fakie frontside

a full cab, or caballero is a fakie frontside 360.

so a halfcab is a fakie front 180.

cab 5 is a fakie front 5 etc, etc.

since theres no such thing as frontside and backside spins on skis then theres no such thing as cab spins.
 
I don't really care that much about what you want to call the trick you're doing, but I do know you can do a cab 5 and 9 so that would mean your definition of cab isn't right. But does it really matter, why not just call it switch 5 or 9 or whatever there really isn't a reason to specify with skiing. Anyway, I feel like that's been said before but fuck it.
 
it is too late to change switch to fakie, who cares. everyone knows what a switch 9 or cab 9 means anyways, even if it doesn't make since in other sports. Same as everyone knows back/blind and frontside.just keep names like kangaroo flip and k fed out if you want simplicity. double flat and frontside switchup, backside 270 out and everyone will know what you mean.
 
Just to clarify a few things ...

Switch 9 -> spinning natural (generally left side)

Cab 9 -> spinning switch unnatural (generally right side)

Thank you!

 
but what do you call a nollie, then?

as for snowboard, i agree: i've always heard calling cab only when frontside, while it's simply switch bs 1 when backside
 
ive read many places that a cab is like a sw unatty.. i can remeber to read that andreas håtveits run when he won xgames was : right 9, sw10, cab 10, sw 12
 
More recently, there is the old switch-up/ front-up/ front swap debate.

Very similar, equally as pointless as the other arguments.
 
cab= caballerial or caballero

trick invented by steve caballero

its a fakie 360

thats why a fakie 180 is a half cab
 
thats what i thought, and a full cab is fakie 3, that might just be skateboarding though, because ive also heard cab is fakie backside
 
cab is switch frontside. skiing doesn't have frontside or backside rotations so therefore there is no cab on skis. retards.
 
not true.

cab is either direction.

full cab flips are almost always done backside. you hardly ever see one done frontside, and i can't remember in recent memory seeing one ever done frontside. they are still full cab flips. nobody says fakie backside. if you want to say fakie backside go ahead, but it is still easier to just say cab or half cab.

also you're a girl which 9 times out of 10 means you are always wrong. even the asian kid in this thread has it right.
 
full cab flip?

at least i know you cant do a 'cab flip' regardless of whether its frontside or backside.

and either way you cant to cab spins on skis. did, done.

and if youve never seen a 'fakie frontside' spin then youre obviously not looking at the right things.

im a girl, i dont know much, but at least i know more than this guy
 
ok. you can do frontside and backside cab spins.

skateboarding -

a frontside halfcab is gonna look like a 'fakie back 1', but its the same thing as a ordinary frontside 180, just moving backwards.

a backside half cab is gonna look like a frontside spin cuz youre gonna be opening your body up. its gonna be the same thing as a back 1 just going backwards.

These are the real definitions

still, stop calling switch spins cab on skis
 
some guy at a ski shop said skiing switch is impossible because supposedly skiing switch means you'd have to be facing your tails so unless you turn your bindings round it should be called fakie

then again he was a snowboarder and they are 2 different sports but he still claims he is right
 
See I know cab is switch frontside and that shit doesnt work on skis but i read somewhere on NS cab on skis meant switch wrongside i.e spinning switch un-natural.
 
can't do a 'cab flip'? tell that to this guy.

oh and look at that...it's backside. regardless, its nollie, but that makes it that much more impressive.

and either way, i never said anything about cab spins on skis. did, done.

and if i said anything about 'fakie frontside' spins, i'll eat shit. i said 'flip' not spin.

you are a girl, you don't know much...nuff said

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i don't know exactly what you're getting at. this just further proves my point....

she said cab is only frontside. this says cabs were originally done backside but can be done either way.....

hence, i'm right. she's a dumb girl.
 
Thats mostly right.

Except

The Skating Ollies are wrong.

Natural Stance: Left foot forward.

Switch Stance: Right foot forward.

Key:

For a natural rider:

; right foot

: left foot.

For a switch rider

: right foot

; left foot.

A normal Olly is when a rider does an olly in there normal stance: The foot on the kick is at the back.

(; : ) direction ->

or

( ; :) direction

or

(; : ) direction

or

( ; :) direction

or

(: ; ) direction
 
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