CAB BOARDSLIDES?

el bombero · Faceplant Joined: 16 Jun 2004 Posts: 47 City: Vicksburg

what exactly does CAB mean? i dont get it.

jerrysk8 · Posted: Jun 18, 2004 11:11 am Post subject:

cab short for caballerial, which in skateboarding is a fakie frontside 360 invented by steve caballero. half cab is a fakie fs 180 but in wakeboarding i think its just a switch fs 180, weird.

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10756 City: Jefferton

Actually, caballerials are fakie backside spins (el-I finally get it). And you know a half cab that, if you were riding regular would be a backside spin, would actually be called a frontside half cab. Do you know what I mean? That sentence was murky. At first I was baffled, like, how is that a fronside half cab when you're rotating backside. But when you're riding fakie, everything is backwards. I hope that makes sense.

Anyway, I don't think cab should be used in wakeboarding and it should be used sparingly in snowboarding. There have been fakie tricks done on a wakeskate but in my opinion, they weren't all that hot. but to each his own.

el bombero · Faceplant Joined: 16 Jun 2004 Posts: 47 City: Vicksburg

uh....you lost me there. How would i go about doing one? explain in a simple, easy way for stupid people to understand.

Catalyst · Backside 180 Joined: 16 Nov 2003 Posts: 736 City: Kelowna

ok for a cab boardslide are your gonna do is go up to the rail switch ollie on and boardslide. when you get to the end of the rail land regular. Basically its a switch 180 with a boardslide in the middle. Terms are stupid so just think of it thatway.

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10756 City: Jefferton

Switch and fakie are two different things. If you're going by the lame wakeboarding terminology, then I guess a switch boardslide to regular would be considered a cab boardslide. If terminology is stupid, then forget about using the word cab if you're doing something that's switch.

Catalyst · Backside 180 Joined: 16 Nov 2003 Posts: 736 City: Kelowna

who cares about terms just try stuff.

jerrysk8 · Posted: Jun 18, 2004 4:57 pm Post subject:

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10756 City: Jefferton

jerrysk8, that's what I used to think. But el read in a steve caballero interview that they're actually backside spins. And at first I disagreed with him, but he's actually right. And it makes sense, especially because of the frontside half cab thing (which, on a snowboard, looks like a switch backside 180. But I guess SOMETIMES you can initate the rotation with your frontfoot, which makes it fake. Whatever, I guess...pretty subtle).

Like I said, the best way that I can understand it is that when you're riding fakie, everything is backwards. For instance, a fakie 5-0 looks like a nosegrind, blah blah blah. Some of that "shizzle" gets really confusing sometimes...like mind boggling.

RUSSIAN · Posted: Jun 18, 2004 5:49 pm Post subject:

Let's see if I can make this easy to understand, It's hard to explain in writing. think of it this way, if you ride regular and turn backside your turning to your right side, that same direction applies for fakie, even though your turned around, your still spinning in the same direction, so a cab is backside, turning to your right, and a frontside cab would be turning in your natural frontside rotation, turning to your left.

could that BE anymore of a run-on sentence Laughing

jerrysk8 · Posted: Jun 18, 2004 6:17 pm Post subject:

el

i don't know if we're thinking on the same level here, or maybe im reading it wrong, cause frontside and backside are two totally opposite positions but to me its sounds like your saying they're the same thing. and when your riding fakie frontside is still frontside and backside is backside. your back doesn't automatically become your front, thats just weird.

frontside = you initially spin your body so your front is facing forward or the obstacle your about to hit is in front of you

backside = exact opposite of frontside

i guess if im wrong i've been wrong for the last 8yrs Sad

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lets just say a cab is a fakie 360.

after a while, in photos, you can tell the difference between fakie 5-0 and nose grind, just like you can tell the difference from a noseslide and a tailslide

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10756 City: Jefferton

Jerrysk8, I think you've been wrong for 8 years. But that's ok, because I didn't get it at first and I basically refused to believe it (even after I was told that this came from a stevie c. interview. how can you fight it if it came from his mouth, you know?) Russian explained it perfectly (much better than my mumbling) and his post was extra special because of his chandler bing impression that was on point and then some (I love friends. One day I will have every season on dvd...it's a shallow goal, I know.)

anyway, calling it a fakie 360 sounds good to me. Then my head won't explode.

el bombero · Faceplant Joined: 16 Jun 2004 Posts: 47 City: Vicksburg

good god you lost me
but thanx for the help i basically get the idea now.

brad · Guest

cab, shmab, who cares, just ride,

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10756 City: Jefferton

Well, one person asked, so someone cares.

And really, it's not bad to understand your roots. Skateboarders invented 99% of what everyone does, so it's not bad to understand what tricks you're doing and where they came from. But you know, everyone else can do their thingies and whatchamacallits...cause those are cool tricks. hahahaha, I'm just teasing...

nick · Posted: Jun 19, 2004 6:19 pm Post subject:

so a cab boardslide would be a switch bs 360 to switch board?

Fredrick_Eisenhauer · Posted: Jun 20, 2004 8:43 am Post subject:

No, a cab boardslide would be riding up fakie and boardsliding.

el bombero · Faceplant Joined: 16 Jun 2004 Posts: 47 City: Vicksburg

alright that explained it right there. Thanks.

Josh · Posted: Jun 20, 2004 9:52 am Post subject:

Uh-Ohhh...

el · Backside 180 Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 1739 City: The Sea