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Why does everyone insist on calling it switch.

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kickerlicker
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It's not switch it's backwards. Switch is something you do when you're skateboarding, snowboarding, surfing, wakeboarding and all the other sports with one board. Skiing on the other hand has two directions, forwards and backwards. I know it sounds cooler to say switch but don't kid yourself. It will never be as cool as snowboarding switch.
Dec 8 2009 10:03PM
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spliff.Life
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elsearchelbarro

why do you care?
i agree with serge
Dec 8 2009 10:04PM
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fillup
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Why is the sky blue?




Dec 8 2009 10:04PM
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Gameboy
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'' We need to find a name for skiing backwards !! ''
Dec 8 2009 10:06PM
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triebby
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Hey guyzz, what me do this sweeet backwards five hundred forty degree spin while grabbing the tail of my ski while i cross my tips!!1!!!!11 it's gonna be soooo extreme!!!!!1!1!!
Dec 8 2009 10:06PM
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p-fo
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its switch. deal with it. if you continue to call it "backwards" me and everyone else will think youre a n00b
Dec 8 2009 10:07PM
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Ski.Ballet
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But I can do switch helicopter whirly birds
Dec 8 2009 10:08PM
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drugula
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The­re is a physical phenomenon called Rayleigh scattering that causes light to scatter when it p­asses through particles that have a diameter one-tenth that of the wavelength (color) of the light. Sunlight is made up of all different colors of light, but because of the elements in the atmosphere the color blue is scattered much more efficiently than the other colors When you look at the sky on a clear day, you can see the sun as a bright disk. The blueness you see everywhere else is all of the atoms in the atmosphere scattering blue light toward you. Because red light, yellow light, green light and the other colors aren't scattered nearly as well, you see the sk­y­ as blue.

and skiing backwards is called switch because we try to make it cooler than it really is
Dec 8 2009 10:09PM
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Calb3rt
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switch-
verb.
to change direction or course; turn, shift, or change.
Dec 8 2009 10:10PM
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Malcolm
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ok there buddy
Dec 8 2009 10:12PM
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kickerlicker
Posts: 820 - Karma: 11
by that definition it's a verb, and therefore the act of going from forwards to backwards
Dec 8 2009 10:12PM
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Thenowhereman42
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I do call it backwards, and its much cooler than snowboarding switch.
Dec 8 2009 10:13PM
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SHampson
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"Switch"=freestyle skier
"Backwards"=gaper
Dec 8 2009 10:13PM
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fillup
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.....asshole
Dec 8 2009 10:15PM
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Thenowhereman42
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Its like "oh yeah I can do a switch 540, its pretty cool man"

much cooler if you say "oh yeah I can do a 540 FUCKING BACKWARDS!"
Dec 8 2009 10:15PM
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Eric.S
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Basicly I think that you should just get the fuck out of here.
Dec 8 2009 10:15PM
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GreenHorn
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HAY I DID A BACKWARDS FIVE HUNDRED FORTY DEGREE LEFT HORIZONTAL ROTATION!!!!

or

hey i did a switch 5 son! ugh!
Dec 8 2009 10:16PM
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Blurst
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Exact same situation I was going to post. And to OP why call the bannas sister a wooden stool?
Dec 8 2009 10:17PM
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chicken
Posts: 6843 - Karma: 2,123
because everyone knows what it means, along with fakie, or cab, so who cares. If you have problems with naming tricks it should be with stuff like kangaroo or hexo flips, since you can't know what it is unless you see it, call them double flats and stuff.

go ahead and call it a backwards 5 if you want, I have called it that before, people know what you are talking about.

Dec 8 2009 10:20PM
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kickerlicker
Posts: 820 - Karma: 11
Ok I get it. It's a ruse, for claiming purposes mainly.
Dec 8 2009 10:22PM
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drugula
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ha jus kid
Dec 8 2009 10:25PM
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Ben.
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I LOVE SKIING BACKWARDS, IN CASE YOU DIDNT NOTICE
Dec 8 2009 10:30PM
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Roy
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Because we do deal with it, your not going to change an instustries way of doing things. And if you want to get technical snowboarding and wakeboarding don't have a sw stance, because your strapped in it would be backwards or forwards.

(Sorry for being bitchy but this question comes up like every other week it seems it just gets annoying)

Dec 8 2009 10:32PM
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--ski--
Posts: 1670 - Karma: 817

switch makes sense, rad the definition that someone posted

its just like saying whys it called a pretzel? when that has no relivance to sporting at all.

Dec 8 2009 10:34PM
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Chilly_Willy
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/Thread
Dec 8 2009 10:37PM
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GreenHorn
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WHampson quoted SHampson, WTF!!!!
Dec 8 2009 10:43PM
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mackcamp
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And thus Reverse Mode was born.
Dec 8 2009 10:44PM
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*LiNeLover*
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this.

& why does it even matter.
/THREAD!
Dec 8 2009 10:51PM
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PeterNorth
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Call it cab then, like they used to call it, not fucking backwards you noob
Dec 8 2009 10:52PM
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Mr-Cam-ron
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if a skater's stance was left foot forward(regular), right foot forward would be switch for them right?

so your pretty much saying that when we are going to hit a rail untatural, you want us to say im going to hit the rail switch?

Dec 8 2009 10:59PM
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GNARBARSTAR
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so logically we should call it downhill reversing.
Dec 8 2009 11:00PM
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Delaney
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i think it is switch
Dec 8 2009 11:02PM
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traylortrash
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why does it matter at all?
Dec 8 2009 11:03PM
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kickel
Posts: 242 - Karma: 10
Its switch due to said reasons above but. whats up with this first we have to name
have a specific name for sliding a rail "skier grind"? now changing switch are noobs are trying to change all the names of these common tricks. I believe its called digression at this point not progression.
Dec 8 2009 11:10PM
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Ben.
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thank god at least someone noticed
Dec 9 2009 12:31AM
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nathanielstyza
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Hahahaha. The first ski movie I ever owned.
Such an epic quote.
Dec 9 2009 12:58AM
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gretzels
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win.
but, dude, be real, snowboarding switch is not. that. cool. I can't even tell if a snowboarder is going switch
Dec 9 2009 5:04AM
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BackRoad
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and then he trips over himself, so funny
Dec 9 2009 5:14AM
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TWoods
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I'm calling it reverse mode from now on.
Dec 9 2009 6:34AM
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SHampson
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It's my brother ha.  My name is Seth, his is Wylie.
Dec 9 2009 11:01AM
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Pmoore
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ass first.....
Dec 9 2009 11:05AM
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ninjax6792
Posts: 510 - Karma: 12
this
Dec 9 2009 11:07AM
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andersteeze
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its switch becasue assuming you didnt start going backwards off the lift, you switched from going forwards.
Dec 9 2009 11:35AM
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Gorno
Posts: 266 - Karma: 28

Is this whole thread a big attempt to troll us? Because, you can't seriously expect to anyone to use such a shitty term to replace the already perfect term we have appropriated

Dec 9 2009 11:43AM
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Sewardo
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agreed.   there's a decent amount of threads these days questioning well estabished concepts. switch is switch, i know we aren't snowboarders but we don't call our bindings something different because they don't look like snowboard bindings.  we may use some of the same words but it's our own spin on the word so people need to forget about the snowboarding influence (although not altogether because it is influential) for a second and realize that.
Dec 9 2009 11:53AM
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kool.aid.man
Posts: 1416 - Karma: 526
let just think of how that would sound....

"And (name) just did a switch double cork 10"

OR

"And (name) just did a backwards double cork 10"




..... i will let you decide for yourself on which one sounds...well normal.
Dec 9 2009 11:59AM
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PEJibber31
Posts: 358 - Karma: 11

Nice reference.

I remember when Pep got up in arms about this term too, Im pretty sure he settled on calling it fakie for awhile. At least I think so but I could be wrong. It was in an article in skeeze awhile ago.

Dec 9 2009 12:01PM
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SKETCHY_D
Posts: 979 - Karma: 27
Switch-to change direction or course; turn, shift, or change

when going going forward to back wards it is a change of direction

congrats your retarded!!!
Dec 9 2009 12:45PM
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I_Am_Mod
Posts: 13214 - Karma: 3,753
when talking to snowboarders i often refer to my "switch" skiing as fakie...
why don't we all call it fakie?
Dec 9 2009 12:49PM
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Zent33zy
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THIS
Dec 9 2009 12:53PM
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superpoluha
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this is a two pager now
Dec 9 2009 12:55PM
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