half cab flips

[swayze]

i cant seem to stick these. my board spinds perfectly, but my body ony gets a 90 for some reason.

im also confused.

how can you tell is someone means nollie or fakie when they say anything half cab?

also what stances are reversed, switch, nollie, AND fakie??

[skatinkrazy]

Funny, i have same problem as you with my half cab flips! Only get 90 degrees!!

[Flip Effect]

A half-cab is a fakie ollie. A full-cab is a 360 fakie ollie. A cab is any FAKIE rotation. A nollie rotation would be a nollie 180 or 360. A regular one would be a 180 or 360. A switch one would be a switch 180 or 360.

So basically any 180 or 360 that ISN'T fakie is what it you would normally call it.

[McJesus]

Basically what worked for me is i flicked with my foot and my foot followed the board so i always stayed over it. Whatch carefully, sketchy but gets the job done http://media.putfile.com/sketch-92

[NoneMoreBlack]

A half-cab is a fakie ollie. A full-cab is a 360 fakie ollie. A cab is any FAKIE rotation. A nollie rotation would be a nollie 180 or 360. A regular one would be a 180 or 360. A switch one would be a switch 180 or 360.

So basically any 180 or 360 that ISN'T fakie is what it you would normally call it.

^^^ no a half cab is a fakie 180. A cab is any fakie 360 rotation....

[Flip Effect]

Uhhh thats what said.

Originally Posted by Flip Effect
A half-cab is a fakie ollie. A full-cab is a 360 fakie ollie. A cab is any FAKIE rotation.

When I said that anything that isn't fakie is what you would normally call it I mean a switch 180 doesn't have any special name it's a switch 180. A nollie 180 is a nollie 180 etc.

[hayward420]

i also have this problem .but im getting there i think *ponders*

[swayze]

ok for the cabs i dont get it. you call nolie "half cabs" a nollie 180 dont you?

and whats are the stances that are reversed?

[elemental_guy1]

half cab means half of a cabelarial wich is a fakie 360.. only fakie not nollie... to do the flip you need to learn the half cab either bs or fs and then work on your fakie flips.. after you get them be like BABAM woman..... i just did a half cab flip. i prefer to do them bs.. seems easier. if your going to learn the trick though, its one you need to learn on your own. so many diff ways and styles for the trick

[edward]

ok here goes...

the half cab flips. if your only getting 90 then don't lean back as much, meaning, try to stand up over your tail more, leaning more towards the direction your rolling. if you feel that the board isn't popping and not flipping/staying underneath you, then your leaning too far foward (the opposite of what your doing). basically just try to stand up straight over the board more. sorry, that was kinda confusing to explain but if you need any more help then just ask. also learning bs flips first makes this trick a little easier, but i think it sort of works both ways, half cab flips are a little easier to get the full rotation so they also helped me with my bs flips. so just try to work on both of them.

now for the half cab thing. the term comes from the guy who invented it, the long time skateboarding legend whos still out there killing it today, steve caballero. the full trick is the caballerial, and it was invented fakie by him so thats why they are done in fakie stance. anyways its a fakie 360, spinning either fs or bs. the term half-cab is because its just that, half of a full caballerial, so its a fakie 180. regular and switch 180s and 360s do not take this name, they're just referred to as 180s or switch 180s, depending on which one you're doing. it really doesn't apply to nollie either seeing as steve did it fakie, not nollie so they're just a nollie 180 or nollie 360, but some people do like to short cut it and just say nollie cab or whatever just because fakie and nollie both pop the same, just depends on whether your goofy or regular.

ok the reversed stances thing.

think of it as if you do a bs 180, 90 degrees through the spin your backside will be facing your direction of motion, and the opposite for frontside. when you do switch stance tricks then its the same as regular, you're just standing with a different foot foward, so you call switch stuff the same as regular.

fakie is a little confusing to get the hang of, because if you do a halfcab and your fs is facing your direction of motion, thats actually a bs halfcab. think of it as if you do a bs 360, you start spinning bs and then after you do 180 degrees of the rotation think of where your at, your in fakie, now if you continue the rotation that motion is like a half cab, and its called bs because its like continuing the spin of a bs 360. technically nollie stances should have the names reversed, so they should be called just like fakie tricks are. now some people do get them mixed up and everything and call them differently but this way is the most logical and the way that everything makes sense and works together.

so for a little overcap... you understand the regular spin terms (bs and fs). switch tricks are called the same as regular terms. nollie and fakie tricks they are "reversed." if your still not understanding it then go out and do a bs 180, then after that, stand on your board and start riding fakie, then do the same exact motion that you would do for a bs, nevermind the fakie that your riding backwards. when you do them they both have the same exact spin its just that fakie is moving backwards.

sorry about all of that because its really REALLY confusing to explain to someone in typing, it's a lot easier to show someone in person.

[Ramp]