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How-To Skateboarding: Half Cab With Steve Caballero

RIDE Channel4 skaters recommend it · 4 mentions, 2016 to 2025
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64K views · 14 years ago · Tutorial · Intermediate

RIDE Channel Trick-a-Day tutorial where Steve Caballero shows how to do a half cab, a fakie backside 180. Runs under three minutes and was published in 2012.

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Linked in trick naming debates as the answer straight from the inventor of the trick. Caballero demonstrates the half cab himself.

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“A half cab (half of a caballerial) is a fakie backside 180, a full cab is fakie backside 360.”

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u/Boo-urns_2025 · 3 points

Potato, potatoes. tho wouldn’t a fs half cab be a FS fakie 180? You need to add ‘flip’ to indicate that the board is rotating too. Check it here. [VIDEO]

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u/royaljoro2021 · 1 points

Nollie switch isn’t a thing, it’s fakie. >Being good at something doesn’t make you an expert on nomenclature I mean, Steve and Tony and bunch of other guys pretty much invented most of the tricks (when it comes to spins and what not) so that gives it a quite a lot more weight than just ”being good at something” [LINK] > The original trick is a fakie backside 360 ollie > The Caballerial can also be done frontside (Fro

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u/Alex0u6012018 · 1 points

It's not a fakie flip [VIDEO] demonstration by the man himself

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u/cofudi2016

If he switched his stance and was riding FAKIE, it would be a back heel because hes doing the same motion of a regular back heel, only backwards. A half cab (half of a caballerial [VIDEO] ) is a fakie backside 180, a full cab is fakie backside 360.

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