Fakie vs switch

ok heres my spin on this. skiers hit jumps forwards so there is no such thing as backside and frontside that only applies to boarders as they hit jumps side on cos of there stance right. skiers use leftside and rightside for spins or natural unatural whateva of those tickles your fancy. switch is used for skiers hitting jumps for sure. its allready been said. switch 9 sounds better than fakie 9 and fakie is used in the pipe when landing switch... eg. air to fakie hopefully that kinda made sence but oh well. im out

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RePiN 4 NZ WoRlD WiDe
 
^right on, unnatural, is spinning to ur non dominant side, lets hope that stops the bullshit

jack

formerly east coast fujative 1537

rep the right side
 
Switch

Fakie is just the old way of saying it, and cab is just gay. Sounds like something Tanner made up to sound more gangsta

 
there isnt really a right or wrong. i personally use switch. but i suppose they can be used interchangably. it doesnt really matter.

~*Michelle

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roundtop riders '05
 
its switch...its the closest we have to everything else. cause you cant realy ski cab...thats only for tricks..and fakie technically means switch nollie stance...and you cant ride switch nollie in skiing

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JC TMC S3P
 
nobody saw my first post, so i repeat... not cab or fakie or switch.... its all about

reverse

or

ass-first

those are the only two possibilities

CHEESE CAKE - COMING 2005!!!
 
^ yeah i agree, we newschoolers could start a revolution in the skiing industry.

from now on, switch, fakie, cab is ass-first. nothing else means backyards.

VT
 
well if ya think about it in a skate boarding way it would be fakie because we spin as if we are moving forward... but i say switch

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I usually say switch but I use cab sometimes. Especially for switch 180's I say half cab a lot instead. No matter what you say, an educated newschooler will know what you mean. It's all about personal preference.

 
i say switch, and for some reason a kid here says "cab" is switch unnatual which would be cool but its not

'i think i'll go with shouldabeen for the first name and abeejay for the middle name, reguardless of if its a boy or girl'-CameIToeJam on what he would name his kids

i hate ski patrolers
 
Skiers should never say cab. Cab is a skateboarding term that is very specific. It comes from Steve Cabellero and its popping off your tail going fakie and spinning frontside. Its a term that shouldnt be used and everyone that uses it sounds ignorant.

 
excelent point, so no skier use of cab, sounds offical to me

'i think i'll go with shouldabeen for the first name and abeejay for the middle name, reguardless of if its a boy or girl'-CameIToeJam on what he would name his kids

i hate ski patrolers
 
my philosophy is theis: if ur going into a jump or something then ur going in switch, but if u coming out of something then its fakie, , for example

switch 270 on, blind side switch up, fakie out

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from my understanding switch unnatural is referred to as Dirty. and yeah cab is like a switch nollie 3 right?

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Please, stop making skiing into a soap opera. This isn't the OC.
-J.D. May

JC TMC S3P
 
cab.. fakie..switch who cares they all mean the same.. you could even jsut say backwards if u guys can;t decide on whos right lol

 
here's the deal. Fakie = backwards

Switch = unnatural

Think about skateboarding.

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I always thought cab only referred to switch unnatural, ah whatever.

If I see somebody going off the jump backwards I just call it "crazy out of control". As in, "Did you see Gagnier's crazy out of control 7?!"

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