what exactly is a "switch" and "fakie"

[plaxxman]

I know what nollie is, its when you do a trick on the nose of the board instead of the tail, while using your front foot instead of the back foot to pop the board (or am i wrong?)

But what is a "switch" and "fakie"? thanks

[crazy_dave]

Your profile says your regular, so i'll do it from that.

Say you were riding forwards facing the right, that be regular right?
Now say you were riding facing right, but on the nose, that'd be nollie.
Switch for you is riding forwards, in goofy stance. So basically the opposite of your regular stance.
Fakie is the same as nollie, but in switch stance.

Heres a video.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=iLm0BhDtBj4

The guy in blue is in regular stance, so his ollie is just a normal ollie for you.
Tony on the other hand is a goofy skater, so if you were to stand goofy like him you would be performing a 'switch' ollie.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9E81AUIlzYs

Thats a fakie ollie for you. If he was a goofy skater it would be a nollie.

[Flamethrower]

^^
That's right, Dave. But if your riding regular, your right would be facing the oppisite direction of which your moving.

[spenser]

youd be facing to YOUR left if you were a regular-stance skater riding normal foreward, if you were looking in the direction you were going.

someone needs to make a video visually explaining regular/goofy, switch/nollie/fakie, fs and bs spins (and the difference when its fakie), and fs and bs grinds.

hell, ill do it, but ill need to get my boss' vx2100 first, and the cables to hook it up to the computer.

[sk8vogell]

yes seriously, I understand bs and fs spins but not grinds, I have read on it but its kinda confusing so if anyone finds a vid that explains fs and bs for grinds...much appreciated

[luckysk8er1991]

fs and bs grinds are easy. if the grinding surface is infront of you before the grind then it is always a fs grind. if the grinding surface is behind you before the grind, then it is always a bs grind (it has nothing to do with which way you spin like some people think)

[sk8vogell]

oh, ok thanks....for some reason the place where I read it before had it explained lengthily so that is was hard to get the info out (I believe it was transworld's website or about.com skateboarding....though I dont remember which)

[DCsKaTeR]

the hard thing is finding out what a trick is done frontside and backside.

[PeeWeeSkater]

the hard thing is finding out what a trick is done frontside and backside.
not really. only if its nollie or fakie.
nollie and fakie bs and fs i dont understand. and i dont try to figure it out.

[Ramp]