skiing backwards should be referred to as fakie not switch.
switch, is opposite of your naturally inclined direction of spinning.
I am sure most of you will agree everyone has one way their body likes to turn,
the other way feels weird and it obviously not your naturally inclined direction of motion.
boardsports have frontside or backside, but since we are facing forward we start at zero.
you can learn to be comfortable spinning both directions, but naturally
you are inclined to turn in one direction better than the other. Just
as almost all humans have one dominant hand, eye, and foot.
that is all relative to this.
Fakie comes from skateboarding, in line skating, and even bmx now.
I dont see how skiing has adapted it incorrectly, confusing it with switch.
what do you call a switch spin? left or right turn?
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