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Only thing that bothers me is it should be backside cab. Regular, nollie, switch, back 180 means your back is traveling forward as you do it. For some reason they fucked up naming fakie tricks.
A cab is a backside 360 in fakie. Your body and board spin in the exact same way fakie and regular.
Calling a fakie frontside cab/360 is spinning frontside and it makes sense to me.
You know why this conversation is impossible to have on the internet? Because people suck at articulating the definition of FS & BS spins in their head and just assume everyone thinks the same as them.
Let's break down the above as an example:
"A cab"We all know what that is.
"is a backside 360"Picture riding regular and doing a normal old BS 360. That's the definition of 'BS 360' in this instance.
"in fakie"Now picture that exact same body and board motion doing the exact same BS 360 above, only this time you're skating the other way and of course are popping off your boards regular tail/switch nose, i.e. Fakie.
All of a sudden we're now defining a trick as BS, even though our body is doing what most definitions would class as a FS trick as the front of our body is the first 180 to spin in the direction we're moving.
Now perform the same exercise with the other 360 and we have FS Cabs.
Thus we're left with:
BS Cab
FS Cab
BS Half Cab
FS Half Cab
I assume the reason we drop the BS is because that was the first variation that earned the nickname Cabellarial, and FS was added to the opposite rotation to differentiate the trick without coining a whole new name.
Correct me if I'm wrong on any of the above.
Also,
Who cares about cabs? As long as we all call back smiths monty grinds, all is good.
Mono Rail grind or GTFO.
Topic: ATTN: Slap of fakie fs 360, on fs cab???? (Read 5976 times)