Why so many names? tail..blunt.. and other stuff..

Nikkekoivisto

Nikkekoivisto

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Tail, Blunt, Lead Tail, True tail, Reverse tail? Ik, im retarded for not knowing this but correct me please

-Tail/blunt = same thing? skis crossed and grabbing tip? no? ok:(

-Lead tail = for example if you spin left you grab tail of your ski with your left arm while skis crossed?

-True tail = uncrossed tailgrab?

-Reverse = ?? .
 
tail is a tail grab, can refer to grabbing any part of the tail of the ski, usually the inside edge.

blunt is the same as true tail, meaning the actual tip of the..tail

lead, opposite, and reverse all mean grabbing the leading ski.. like, if im spinning left, i grabbed the left ski

people love to split hairs about rodeo vs flatspin but as you mentioned it's just a stupid thing that skiers do for some reason. just call em rodeos instead of being a dork

no such thing as a rodeo 3 though really, so just call those flatspins

now cue a hundred retards arguing over stupid shit, but ignore them cause i'm right and they're wrong

 
Haha, ok thanks mate. since everyone else is wrong and you're right, u mean blunt is crossed tail and grabbing the very tip of the ski?

and what do u call when ur skis arent crossed and u grab both tails with 1 hand. (like skis are really close together)
 
"tail is a tail grab, can refer to grabbing any part of the tail of the ski, usually the inside edge."

grabbing the inside edge is called a toxic grab.

you're wrong and im right.
 
blunt doesnt necessarily mean crossed or uncrossed. blunt just means true tail, grabbing the very tip of the tail

you can then do it crossed or uncrossed but "blunt" doesnt denote one or the other

and i've never heard of a name for grabbing both blunts with one hand, there's not a name for that
 
yeah funny you'd say that cause i was going to add in that back in the day it was popular to argue about tail versus toxic, because people who want to split hairs say that you should call the inside edge grab a toxic

no one ever uses that any more though, it's just a tail grab, havent heard someone say toxic since like 2001
 
i just call grabbing anything behind of the rear binding a tail grab (except for japans, duh), but the purpose of the thread is to name the "exact" definitions and locations of each grab so thought id through it out there. jah bless.
 
no yeah definitely agree, that is what you'd call if if you wanted to split hairs but that's one hair splitter that has luckily been left behind
 
what you might be thinking of is when people grab blunt but on the farther away ski... like, put your right hand back and grab blunt on the left ski, people have started calling those cubans recently i think

and stalefish is when you grab OUTside tail edge of LEFT ski behind you with RIGHT hand. so sort of like a cuban but the far outside edge of the left ski's tail
 
Nobody actually calls d-spins "d-spins" anymore, they just call it a cork. Cork= Knees/feet do not go over your head
 
I have always referred to tail grabs as skis crossed and blunts as skis uncrossed. It seems now a days, every single tail grab is called a blunt which sounds way too try hard of a name.
 
And as far as blunt, to me a true blunt has always been uncrossed. Think of what blunt means: not sharp or jagged. What looks less "jagged," crossed skis or skis together? PWhite has the best blunt in the game.

I know I will be ridiculed for that, but whatever.
 
well yeah, some would be... but i always avoid splitting hairs, and a wackflip is just what people call the trick that's between an off axis backie and a true flat, and i don't see any reason to propagate more hair splitting
 
Arnt dspins pretty much spinning through a backflip. In which case it would be completely different than a cork.
 
i said that up there.. cuban is grabbing blunt but on the opposite ski. so you reach behind you and grab the very back of the tail of the LEFT ski with your RIGHT hand, or vice versa
 
If you want to see a reverse tail, just watch clayton vila's first 9 in the jibberish welcomes clayton vila and Sean Jordan edit. It is honestly one of the sickest things I've seen in an edit.
 
You're right about that, just saying blunts usually refer to trailing tail. You wouldn't call a lead tail a blunt, just from my knowledge.
 
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