What is a cab spin???

Cab is just a word that people who don't know anything uses. A Cab is actually a Fakie 360 - On skateboard. It was founded by the skater steve Caballero in the mid '90s. So it has nothing to do with skiing.

Well actually the other expressions (Switch, Fakie) don't have anything to do with skiing either since the were made-up in skateboarding. But they fit better to skiing.

I mean, why use the name for a spin trick in the first place? If thing would have been even more f-d up we'ed might have said Cab about a 360 now...

Anyway, I think Fakie is the proper term.

 
same as switch or fakie

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and yes if you go off the jump backwards and do a 180 it is actually called a half cab but it's a cab no matter what!

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Actually a cab on a skateboard is a fake fronstide 360. i fakie 3 backside is just that, fakie 3.

I dont know if the cab applies to skiing, so that a cab would be spinning unnatural, but in skating its fronstide.

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yeah isnt cab a skating term

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i thought it was right side spin fakie

So I told him if you say that again im gonna stick this bowl of gucamole up your ass.

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Like in so many trick definitions, it has to do with the way you are travelling. The folks talking about skate terminoligy have it right. Its a switch move, rotating frontside - half cab is a 180 going off a table or kicker. Originally, its a vert ramp move, a 360 frontside fakie to forward on a halfpipe.

S0 - since there is no real way of rotating frontside on skis (since you have to be standing sideways to sort it out - not the same as natural and unatural) its not REALLY a trick you can do on skis.

That said, 180 fakie to forwards are a lot of fun.

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so you could refer to it as a switch unnatural 3. With the cab meaning it was a swithch 3 but you were spinning unnatural regardless of which shoulder you were looking over.

Too confusing I'll just stick with fakie especially since my unnaty's suck balls.

 
if you spin left, a cab is a spin to the right, starting switch (the frontside spin on a board fakie goes unnatural)... if you spin right, its to the left starting switch...

so like this dude said^ its an unnatural spin starting switch...

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No.

Not at all.

Frontside/Backside and Natural/Unnatural are not the same thing. Frontside and backside refer the direction of rotation based on body position - Frontside is when your body is rotating with the front of your body leading the rotation downhill; its also when the front of your body is facing up the pipe wall. Backside is the opposite. It also refers to what part of your body is facing the rail - frontside is when your body is facing up the rail on a boardslide (skate or snowboard perpendicular to the rail).

Natural and unnatural refer to comfortability in rotation - you like to sping clockwise versus counterclockwise.

Again - using the term 'cab' in ski terms is never going to be quite accurate.

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actually, yea, im right, but you are thinking of when the skiis are perpendicular to something: pipe wall, rail, then yea, there is a difference

backside/frontside and natural/unnatural

but in this case there isn't, since you are facing forwards...

on a skateboard, a cab is a fakie fs 360, you spin right for regular (usualy left spinner) and left goofy (usualy right spinner)...

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Actually, no, you aren't right.

The terms are inherently disconnected beacuse of the difference in stances (board v. ski) as well as due to the fact that frontside/backside and natural/unnatural are defined in different ways.

Just face it - not all skate terms (which are VERY strict in their definition) do not apply to skiing. It has nothing to do wtih what your skis are perpendicular to, and everything to do with the way you stand on your gear.

If you can't sort out Frontside or Backside on skis - which you can't - then you can't do a trick that is based on a frontside or backside orientation.

My point still stands though - its a fun trick, just call it something else.

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^ exactly. if cab in skating is switch frontside, and there isn't any possible way that you can do a frontside spin on skis, then the term cab SHOULDN'T be used in skiing. lets just call it backwards, since that is what it is.

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aaaaaaaahhhh... now i see your point... yea, it is essentially skateboard and snowboard specific, but i still think it can be applied in the terms i said, but whatever, why have a different name for a switch spin?

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Beacause its different - like it or not, freestyle terms are really specific; a Cabriarial is a specific move that has a frontside spin at its core. Thats like saying why not call it a D-Spin if you are completly inverted. Because its not the same.

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SO now that we've all come to the conclusion (did i spell that right?) that cab is a very shady experssion that should be dumped in skiing terms, why don´t use another word instead?

to me switch is unaccurate, since in skateboarding it's short for switch-stance which basicly means that you stand with the 'wrong' foot forward. For example if you're a regular rider you are switch if the right foot is forward.

Now the natural stance on a skateboard is not with both feet 90 degrees to the board. Almost all (I want to be open-minded) skaters stand with their feet slightly pointed forward. The front foot usually stands in the middle and the rear foot is on the tail.

This means that even if you use the right foot forward YOU WILL STILL BE FACED FORWARD, NOT BACKWARDS

When standing fakie you stand exactly like normal, but (in this case with the regular stance) the right foot is on the nose and the left one is on the middle, both feet pointed backwards.

I know (like others have written before) that we should not apply skate-terms in skiing, but if we don't apply these there are no other terms.

So which one is the most backwards?

Fakie

 
definately steve caballero on a skateboard, fakie 3, or the term half cab, fakie 180.

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i agree cab shouldnt be used in skiing. but isnt it switch backside. every video and pic ive seen labelled cab in snowboarding is switch backside. start switch and rotate so your back is downhill first.

and fakie may technically be right if you are taking it from skateboarding but it sounds fruity as hell.

switch sounds the best. and we can just say its cause we switched from forwards to backwards.

didnt they try and start using dirty for switch sking??? never really heard it much though. kinda fruity too.

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uhm, sounds good? well why don't we just say dratchne? or any other word that sounds sexy... this arguement is just...bad. and there's no logical explaination at all. And as for the 'switch from forwards to backwards'-part - you allways switch from somethinhg! 'hey bob, today i switched from caf to de-caf! let's call it's switch!'

anyway, i'm putting down too much energy in this shit. you know what, say whatever you want.

 
wow, too much energy in your posts, brutal...

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You're all wrong, a cab is something that gets you from place to place in larger cities.

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