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If you are moving "forward" in your unnatural stance are you going Switch or Fakie?
Depends on foot placement - like in skate 3 you can travel switch or you can travel fakie depending on your joystick.
Foot placement generally tells you where you're *popping* from.
I'm just asking plain rolling.
I'd guess "Fakie" predated "Switch" because it was defined as an outcome stance from early transition skating.
The "Tail" had a distinguished shape from the "Nose" so you'd approach the wall nose-leading and continue "forward" tail-leading.
I don't know if there were "switch" tricks back then but if so you'd probably have the nose shape leading and your stance was "switched".
The Cab is a big point of reference here and brings up multiple issues for debate.
He calls it a fakie 360 ollie but points out it's a vert trick and the roll-away in natural stance is significant.
On flat you roll-away fakie. You could argue for a different name since the roll-away is different.
... Then there's the backside/frontside debate
Again, those spins or approach to the lip must've had root in transition skating but I haven't thought about those as much.