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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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debrickshaw
Posts: 1957 - Karma: 68
i'd be down for calling it fakie, its sounds pretty cool

official change anybody
Dec 9 2009 12:57PM
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i.ski.troll.
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But I thought cab was switch natural rotaion.  and fakie is switch unnatural roation..?  or is that just snowboarding?
Dec 9 2009 1:00PM
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sip166
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its not cooler its just the trick equivalent to snowboarding and you are switching your stance 180 degrees
Dec 9 2009 1:44PM
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SMH[-__-]
Posts: 545 - Karma: 13
this.
Dec 9 2009 4:07PM
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jason...
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Because fakie is a skateboarding term that refers to doing switch tricks with a nollie. So you're popping with your natural stance just facing the wrong direction. Fakie =/= switch. Comprendé?
Dec 9 2009 4:16PM
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Thenowhereman42
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I do start going off the lift backwards.

Also I vote reverse mode.
Dec 9 2009 5:04PM
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aquinn
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because that is what its called
Dec 9 2009 5:11PM
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Fischer-Addicted
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uh huh..... im guessing we call it switch because its the only other way to ride skis? just like fakie and regular stances on snowboards? this a serious thread?
Dec 9 2009 5:14PM
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heFF
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i swear...kids on newschoolers are getting...dumber...and dumber...and dumber.. each and every day
Dec 9 2009 5:16PM
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BackRoad
Posts: 299 - Karma: 46
why do snowboarders call a cannonball grab a cannonball? in a real cannonball you grab your knees, not the two ends of a plank, if cannonballs into pools were performed by grabbing both ends of a plank, I think the term would be appropriate, but its not. thus i am suggesting that the name is changed to the "double ender" grab or a "nose and tail at the same time" grab or possible even the .":I have a very wide armspan" grab. when one of the new names replaces the name "cannonball", I will refer to riding switch as riding backwards. I might even start calling mute grabs, "cross the front of the skis while holding onto one tip and pulling said tip up towards my body" grabs
Dec 9 2009 5:23PM
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crankdatsoljaboy
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this

Dec 9 2009 5:28PM
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Dilla
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if you're gonna call switch backwards you might as well call skiing "plank sliding".
Dec 9 2009 5:43PM
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Zump.
Posts: 3338 - Karma: 305
//thread
Dec 9 2009 5:47PM
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lilwhiz165
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this
Dec 9 2009 5:48PM
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Motes
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this

Dec 9 2009 5:56PM
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MayorWest
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so we should probably change the name of the comon rail trick "switch up" as well since a switch up is your body does a 180 but you keep sliding in the same direction on the rail... your right.
i vote reverse mode for backward skiing (you know keep it techie like its a video game setting to stay in touch with the younger generation)
and front/back/360 reverser on rails....
Dec 9 2009 6:23PM
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hellomynameisjef
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by that post, you sir, are a twat gobbler.
Dec 9 2009 6:57PM
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Mr.Capone
Posts: 1227 - Karma: 109
It should be called Ridin Dirty

Or to use in sentence form
"he dropped in dirty"
"Ridin dirty in pow is easier with rockered skis"
etc

think there was a thread on this a year or two ago haha
Dec 9 2009 6:58PM
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3ski6guy0
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i need to learn backwards 450s onto rails this year. that sounds like an ugly trick
Dec 9 2009 8:02PM
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TheStudioCC
Posts: 2092 - Karma: 366
the hard way?
Dec 9 2009 8:11PM
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double_D
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NO WAY!!!!!!1!!!????
Dec 9 2009 8:13PM
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jibjunkie
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haha somebodys seen wanderland...
Dec 9 2009 8:27PM
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Peter.
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keep calling it switch, why should we care
Dec 9 2009 8:33PM
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Sewardo
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hahaha fuck yes that would be unreal, for jokes i'm gonna say that when i ride switch from now on
Dec 9 2009 8:43PM
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m.brus
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I am confused when snowboarders ride switch because I can never tell the difference. Some people's stance is left foot forward, and some is right so you never really know if someone just did a 5 or a switch 5..
Dec 9 2009 8:52PM
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Stickity
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switch = spinning/grabbing/grinding uncomfortable way
backwards = fakie
Dec 9 2009 9:19PM
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TOAST.
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all who agree say I
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Dec 9 2009 9:44PM
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AEROPLAEHN
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what a fucking gape thread.
Dec 9 2009 9:48PM
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BackRoad
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aye I
Dec 9 2009 9:59PM
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birdshake
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are you kidding me? snowboarding switch looks the EXACT same as forward because really it's the same thing
Dec 9 2009 10:07PM
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3mania
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Do i have to explain this again. Your right skiers aren't skiing "switch" and neither are SNOWBOARDERS because you are connected to the board or skis. Switch is a skateboard term where the front of the board doesn't change directions, the skater does. So if your connected to the equipment by binders you can't go switch.
Dec 9 2009 10:22PM
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shithawks
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why do u call a vagina a pussy. who gives a shit
Dec 9 2009 10:25PM
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garygohard
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sense when can you ski backwards
Dec 9 2009 10:27PM
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smooticus
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Holy shit that does sound cooler lol.
Dec 9 2009 10:32PM
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dopen993
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cash
Dec 9 2009 10:37PM
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Myfirstname.
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YEah, everybody already knows that its called reverse mode so deal with it.
Dec 9 2009 10:41PM
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ski-swagga
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I
Dec 9 2009 10:52PM
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RUSH1329
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i always knew it as riding goofy for boards, but does it really matter what any of us call it? u can call it fluffy bunny, it really doesnt fuckin matter... kids are gonna call it what they want
Dec 10 2009 12:21AM
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DubChubb
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There was an article about this in freeskiier like 4 or 5 years back and the dude who wrote the article called it brown eye first.
Dec 10 2009 12:31AM
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Gorno
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That is such a BAMF'ing way to refer to switch

Dec 10 2009 12:43AM
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Mr.Capone
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Am I allowed to vote? haha

"I"
Dec 10 2009 6:39PM
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KAS
Posts: 1417 - Karma: 68
When has this ever worked?
Dec 10 2009 6:46PM
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KennyC
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haha. the OP is a faggot. EVERYONE CALLS IT SWITCH. EVEN THE FIRST PEOPLE ON TWIN TIPS, such as mike douglas. your a faggot.
Dec 10 2009 6:48PM
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Thenowhereman42
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Isn't that why they do the bandanna around the leg thing? Or is that for natty/unnatty?
Dec 10 2009 7:12PM
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Twinjibber77
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I remember my first beer. . . .
Dec 10 2009 7:29PM
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kickerlicker
Posts: 820 - Karma: 11
You're officially retarded
Dec 12 2009 3:00AM
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3mania
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If it's got bindings it's not switch dumbass. Snowboards, skis, wakeboards, whatever, you can only go switch when you not attached and can jump off the thing and SWITCH you stance. What part of this don't you understand. Have you ever ridden a skateboard?
Dec 12 2009 4:45AM
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