Ok ok. You win. Everyone wants to call that one trick a cab five. I understand it's culturally acceptable in snowboarding to call it a cab five or cab spin, but I've personally never liked the idea. So you may have won, but now you have to listen to my explanation.
Here are a few video grabs of Harrison doing a cab five or switch frontside five.
Here are a few video grabs of Harrison doing a cab five or switch frontside five.
Here is where I say Harrison rolls up switch and you say he rolls up fakie.
You can see Harrison getting ready for the pop by putting a little weight on his back foot, which is weird for a fakie ollie.
Now Harrison is initiating the pop off of his tail. Which is also weird for a fakie ollie. (If you're confused at this point, "cab" is boarder lingo for a fakie 360)
He is now officially airborne. And as you can see he popped off his tail, which means he did a switch ollie. And it is 100% impossible to switch ollie into any fakie or cab trick.
Now he's spinning. I hope I changed your mind.
my 2 cents... the question was what do "you call it?" and not "what are you actually doing?" because if the later were the question i would agree with you 100%, however out of habit, cultural acceptance, and ease of phrasing i voted cab. love the blog by the way
ReplyDeletei voted switch frontside! i skateboard a lot, and it just feels wrong to call it a cab 5.
ReplyDeletei'd call it cab on a rail and switch on a jump...this is pretty much the same with a frontside on a rail and a frontside spin!
ReplyDeletePeace
I love spinning cab off cat tracks and knolls, but not off jumps.
ReplyDeletewhat you call it and what it i"s" should be the same thing. i used to hear snowboarders call a frontside boardslide a backside boardslide, luckily i dont hear that anymore.
ReplyDeletealso, what if someone really did a cab 5 off a jump. what do you call it then. "WOOO he just did a "real" cab 5!" if these terms were used correctly then there would never be a problem.
there is a reason different tricks have different names.
and on rails people do both, i have seen fakie spins onto rails and switch spins on them.
what im saying is when someone calls a trick, there should be no question what they are doing. its not a matter of what is culturally accepted. there are alot of things that are culturally accepted, but they are not all right.
amen
ReplyDeletelong live steve cabalerro. and all hail cardiel....
ReplyDeletethere is so much controversy over the spinning terms... if you think about it logically the way he described it only makes sense. a fackie ollie is basically a switch nollie. so i guess if you switch nollie off the jump you can call it cab... just go buy some ashburys and you will see it differently.
ReplyDeleteswitch backside= Cabob
ReplyDeletemr. lance i love you
ReplyDeletei think using harrison was a bad example. hes got some pretty wack style
ReplyDeleteswitch ftontside spins are not called cab spins... end of story
ReplyDeletecoming off your heels not really popping your tail on a slide stick is cab. no ones really snappin a tail here, come on.
ReplyDeleteIf it was spun off your toes then we could maybe talk.
tail is tail, heels and toes makes no difference.
ReplyDeletesnowboarding is for wakeboarders.
ReplyDeletewho cares
its switch frontside retards, cab is from steve cabilario, he was a pro skater and nemed that trick after his last name. and harrison's style is really sick
ReplyDeleteits switch frontside retards, cab is from steve cabilario, he was a pro skater and nemed that trick after his last name. and harrison's style is really sick
ReplyDeletejust remember kids. wear a helmet.
ReplyDeletethere's no such thing as doing cabs when you just switch normally, but if you'd done it by pressing your nose so it does looks like cab - call it this way. If we are gonna call sw fs cabs then how would we call the cabs? sw front nosepresses?
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