The Biggest DRAMA in Skateboarding (Fakie Debate) Difference Between Frontside & Backside

Check this clip, this guy explains it well. [this video]

fakie is the only stance that deviates from the other three in that when you are doing a trick on flat ground or down a set, The name of the trick is quite literally identical to the trick in regular stance, but since you’re rolling backwards you say fakie first. The only other caveat in fakie is bs rotations, where a backside 360 rolling backwards would be called a cabalerial after steve. Some people try to say halfcabs can be fs too, but thats a very recent thing that is very contentious/controversial. So a fakie bs 180, which is identical to a backside 180 just rolling Fakie, despite the fact that your body does indeed start the rotation with your front side/shoulders first, would be called a halfcab (or half of a fakie bs360). The important part for fakie is what would the trick be called if you did it in regular stance. That was the idea historically behind names in fakie tricks especially because Nollie and switch wouldn’t be a thing until later. and all these naming conventions I just mentioned only universally applies on flat ground and down sets. Once you start doing these tricks into grinds and slides especially fakie, the naming conventions start to get muddy but when a …