QUIT calling them half-cabs!

feelnjstfine · Backside 180 Joined: 04 Aug 2006 Posts: 802 City: Portland

I just don't understand why people insist on calling w2w switch frontside 180's half-cabs. Unless you are really riding fakie and popping off your real tail(appears to be your nose), THE'RE NOT. Call them what they are, SWITCH, or better yet for all of you real skaters out there(i.e. the ones that come from skaboarding, not wakeblading), just call them Hensley pops.

pipo · Backside 180 Joined: 13 Oct 2004 Posts: 1214 City: 0172

Are you the kid who is married to Pirate?

Phonetic's · Pop Shuvit Joined: 10 Dec 2004 Posts: 150 City: Sweden

and how about snowboarding? do you mean that it's wrong to say a cab 7?

feelnjstfine · Backside 180 Joined: 04 Aug 2006 Posts: 802 City: Portland

Negative funny guy.

feelnjstfine · Backside 180 Joined: 04 Aug 2006 Posts: 802 City: Portland

Snowboarding cabs are proper because you are popping off of your nose( really the tail)

TWG · Kickflip Joined: 25 Sep 2006 Posts: 3258

feelnjstfine, got a point

tad · 360 flip Joined: 07 May 2006 Posts: 5031

I never use the term 'cab' with wakeboarding or wakeskating.. only skateboarding and snowboarding..

Incentive · Ollie Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 62 City: dallas

what about hardflips, it seems like everybody on the wakeskate just does frontside varials and calls them hardflips. a hardflip is popped completely vertically then flicked halfway.

Evan71 · Posted: Nov 19, 2006 11:23 am Post subject:

Incentive, no there just frontsid kickflips and people do em different and why not just call it a 180 what the trick is really called

Mr. Top Hat · Dead Joined: 29 Aug 2004 Posts: 5818

Incentive, a hardflip is a frontside shuvit with a kickflip. that nasty flip thing that goes between skateboarders legs is not a real hardflip.

Slapdown · Kickflip Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 4240 City: Austin

Incentive, Mr. Top Hat, is right. a hardflip IS actually a frontside varial. The "nasty things" that go between skateboarders legs are also hardflips, just with a completely different style. If you really break it down, it still rotates as a fs shuv + kickflip, just in a different motion. I can rotate them both ways on a skateboard, i just feel more comfortable with the "nasty" way. I can pop them higher Smile

addison · Guest

dude call a w2w switch frontside 180 what ever you want and dont give a shizzle about what other ppl call that trick

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10753 City: Jefferton

the cab 7 nose popping thing is malarky. If it wasn't, then dudes would be throwing "nollie 7s" off of kickers as well and they'd say, "but beyotch, it's legit. I kind of popped off of my nose." It's the same break in terminology that wakeboarding uses. And with that being said, when directional stances were heavy, technically, you could say they were doing legit half cabs and what have you.

anyway, I'm sure we'll live...

Mr. Top Hat · Dead Joined: 29 Aug 2004 Posts: 5818

call it a switch jiminy cricket

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10753 City: Jefferton

mr. top hat, I checked on that and it's already trademarked. that's a no-go...

And Drew · Posted: Nov 19, 2006 1:26 pm Post subject: tru dat

good point. half cab is a fakie 180 not a switch 180

Ctipping · Posted: Nov 19, 2006 1:58 pm Post subject:

Well, I must say I am guilty of calling them halfcabs, but I do not come from a skate background at all and had no idea...I guess I shall use the proper terminology from now on... Thanks Mr. Internet!

Raven · Posted: Nov 19, 2006 7:50 pm Post subject:

So what was GD's kickflip called he hits off the kicker at Odub in volume, where he comes at it switch does a 90 spin coming up the kicker and a 90 kickflip off. Sorry I'm a little confused.

tahoe · Posted: Nov 19, 2006 8:02 pm Post subject:

feelnjstfine, why dont u let who ever call it whatever they want. u dont have to call it that.
and dont tell me that snowboarders pop off their nose for a cab 7. i have snowboarded my whole life and i can pop off my nose or my tail switch. its still cab.

nick · Posted: Nov 19, 2006 8:39 pm Post subject:

Raven, Actually he comes at the kicker fakie. It's a halfcab flip.

I call switch 180 a halfcab, but I don't say that I can cab 3 or cab 5, I say switch for those. Just saying cab by itself sounds weird.

I don't really care what you call it, but I do 2 different tricks switch that go like this:

Switch FS Flip - switch 180 + switch kickflip

Halfcab flip - switch 180 + late regular kickflip

If that's not a legit halfcab flip, sorry. It sure was fun to hit it Wink

P.S. I've thought the word halfcab out loud too many times and it now looks weird to read it or say it, that ever happen to anyone with other words? Spoon?