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Why do a swich 5 when you could do a cab 5?

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Phisherman
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I also ride wakeboards in the summer time and I could never understand why some of the terminology is so different...

what I'm talking about is doing spins switch.    in most sports (and in wakeboarding),  whenever you start switch and land regular, it is called a cab-spin.  But this is not the case for skiing.

for example, in wakeboarding, a switch 180 would be called a half cab.  a switch 360 would still just be called a switch 3.  a switch 540 would be called a cab 5.  a switch 720 would still be a switch 7.  a switch 900 would be a cab 9.

But in skiing,  it seems everything is just called switch and not cab.  Why is this?  And is it wrong to call it cab?
Dec 28 2007 9:20PM
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quebecfreestyler
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 a full cab is switch frontside 360 on skateboard isnt it... try that on skis now..
Dec 28 2007 9:23PM
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skinnylove
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I've heard the term "half cab" used in skiing before...
Dec 28 2007 9:24PM
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Phisherman
Posts: 136 - Karma: 47
yea but on a wakeboard, its still called cab and you are attached to the board (just like skiing)
Dec 28 2007 9:25PM
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CHARLES.BRONSON
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no, its fakie fs 360, off the nose(what would be your tail going forwards), sw fs is sw fs.
Dec 28 2007 9:27PM
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GFProd.
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I ride with snowboarders all the day every day, and for them cab is a switch frontside spin
Dec 28 2007 9:28PM
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.Capn.
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You use this when you do a 180 at the begining of a spin before it becomes a d-spin, flat spin, ect.
Like you would say half cab flatspin 540 is a regular 180 to a flatspin 540 in one trick. At least thats the way I learned it.
Dec 28 2007 9:32PM
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Phisherman
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is there a website that has the "official" terminology for everything in skiing?
Dec 28 2007 9:35PM
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snarky
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i've always heard it used as just a sw 180.
Dec 28 2007 9:37PM
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chugLIFE
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i like that....im gonna do it! cab 5 switch sev, cab 9, switch 10
Dec 28 2007 9:37PM
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.Capn.
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Yea it is when you just do a sw 180 but like Often when I do "cork 5's" only 360 of it is corked the other 180 is just reg so prbly more technically itd b called a cork 360 half cab.
Dec 28 2007 9:41PM
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zerospinskier
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I always just say either because skiing doesn't have frontside or backside or anything like that. So we can say switch, cab, who cares its all just backwards.
Dec 28 2007 9:43PM
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SHampson
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why make things complicated with cab?  switch everybody can understand, including non skateboarders and non wakeboarders.  lets keep it that way.
Dec 28 2007 9:52PM
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ski8990
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no, thats just ridiculous
Dec 28 2007 9:55PM
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Phisherman
Posts: 136 - Karma: 47
^it just sounds good to say cab

to me (because i wakeboard)  it makes you sound stupid when you say switch 5
Dec 28 2007 9:55PM
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estaked
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Only problem is that the rotation isn't different like cab is sw frontside, and sw backside is sw backside.

so i say no!
Dec 28 2007 10:18PM
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Phisherman
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if there is no frontside or backside in skiing, then how would you get credit for spinning in your "unnatural" direction (which would be backside on a board for most people)
Dec 28 2007 10:24PM
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Capurnicus
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i like it! cause taking off sw and landing sw is so different than taking of switch and landing foward. i feel like a switch 7 feels more like a  sw 3 than a sw 5. and if the terminology should reflect that.
Dec 28 2007 10:31PM
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Phisherman
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^amen brotha
Dec 29 2007 12:20AM
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JuliusJ
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there is no reason  cab can't be the same as switch as they are both switch tricks and skiers don't really have a back/front side...
Dec 29 2007 12:25AM
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snowboardersrule
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here's quick quiz. whats a frontside half-cab vs. a backside half-cab?
Dec 29 2007 12:29AM
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estaked
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unnaty is BS
Dec 29 2007 12:37AM
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RudyGarmisch
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*Head explodes*
Dec 29 2007 12:40AM
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Alex_thedroog
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this sums it up.
Dec 29 2007 12:43AM
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Sir.Pete
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sw and cab should correspond to natural and unnat spins taking off backwards.
Dec 29 2007 12:46AM
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jordanrs
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Cab is meant to be strictly a skateboard term and that is all.  Wakeboarders used to say cab but they no longer so everything is just switch or regulsr just like skiing.  Steve Cabelaro(i think thats how you spell his name) would be pissed if he heard or read this thread. oh and he is the guy that invented cab in skateboarding.
Dec 29 2007 10:33AM
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pikupfulofsnow
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last post very true. skiing you can not do anything CAB. the term does not apply to skiing and barely snowboarding, stop poaching and using it....you sound like total poser lame fags when you say, "yo, i just did the sickest cab 5!" you didn't do anything cab, you simply did a switch 5. when will skiing stop biting snowboarding, snowboarders don't bite skiing at any place at any time?
Dec 29 2007 11:04AM
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BEARS.
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https://www.newschoolers.com/web/forums/readthread/thread_id/339889/




link app wouldnt work for me.
Dec 29 2007 11:36AM
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bpalmer
Posts: 2408 - Karma: 93
fuck. now we have smug snowboarders on here asking hapless NS retards TRICK QUESTIONS?!

this is completely fucked up.
Dec 29 2007 11:54AM
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nhjibber
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the trick is still all one rotation so its still just a cork 5 or sw cork 5.
Dec 29 2007 11:57AM
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CHARLES.BRONSON
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no such thing, cab is a skate term for fakie frontside, which is different than sw fs because its a fakie ollie(which is the switch version of a nollie).

snowboarding and skiing are both guilty of using the term improperly. No one is popping fakie on their switch frontside 900s snowboarding, and skiers dont even have a fs or bs, so its even worse with skiing.

Lots of snowboarders do real cab stuff jibbing, just not off big jumps.
Dec 29 2007 2:26PM
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Ben.
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how is backside unnatural on a board. there isnt really an unnatural on a board at all
Dec 29 2007 3:22PM
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bpalmer
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because when you are riding regular on a board, backside is rightside, which is usually unnatural. just because they are on snowboards doesnt mean they can just magically spin both ways equally.
Dec 29 2007 4:01PM
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Jorgen.
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Thses many definitions are just confusing me, I think I'll stick with just saying switch.
Dec 29 2007 5:16PM
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CharlesB.
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cab is taking off siwtch and landing regular ??  what the hell ?  ask snowboarders what a cab 7 is for fun...
cab is just switch frontside on a snowboard (and fakie frontside 360 in skateboarding), no matter how you land.
Dec 29 2007 5:23PM
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mattwalker
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switch natural = switch
switch unnatural = cab
Dec 29 2007 9:38PM
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freshlyDIPPED
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^other way around
Dec 30 2007 1:45AM
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Tinga
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hmmmm well maybe since our sport isnt skateboarding we should just use the term switch for any trick that is thrown switch. this is perfectly logical
Dec 30 2007 1:52AM
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james44
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i say backwards and forwards
Dec 30 2007 3:56AM
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tommihq
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why say cab 5 and sw 7 when its much easier for all the pothead skiers tosay just sw 5 or sw 7
Dec 30 2007 9:33AM
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tjski
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cab is just another term for switch, fakie, etc...
Dec 30 2007 9:42AM
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Ben.
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well i dont snowboard but i skate, and i def dont have a natural and unnatural.
Dec 30 2007 4:27PM
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sirskizalot
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im not gonna lie
i have no idea
Jan 1 2008 3:37AM
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45cal
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suvASiVtzZc

tanner hall - cab 540 double grab trick tip..
Jan 30 2010 12:09AM
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J-Evs
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thread date....
but decent bump even though im pretty sure u werent trying to
Jan 30 2010 12:11AM
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45cal
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i'm just trying to bring back a decent trick for the rest of us who can't do switch 1440, Switch misty 1440, or dub 16.
Jan 30 2010 12:17AM
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PeterWojnar
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I'll take a cab to the airport, switch off my cell phone before departure, and land forward, because airplanes don't land backwards. What a silly question.
Jan 30 2010 1:05AM
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Thenowhereman42
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Thats where I'm at. But its because for them the rotation is actually different right?
Jan 30 2010 1:19AM
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make.believe
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correct.
the term cab def originates in skateboarding. transferred to snowboarding--anything switch fs.
and ive heard people use cab in place of switch in skiing too.
bottom line...skateboarding is cool.
Jan 30 2010 2:16AM
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s.erickson
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cab on a snowboard = switch frontside
Jan 30 2010 2:24AM
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KillaSteeze
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TOOO MUCHH

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