Freestyle Skiing/Snowboarding Question?

Question

I know what fakie and switch mean but what does cab mean? You know like cab 540? And does it have anything to do with switch or fakie?

Answer 1

Nowadays, anything done cab means you went into the trick switch. Skiing-backwards, snowboarding-opposite stance. A cab in general is a frontside 360 starting switch and landing fakie but when referring to the spin, it is called a cab 360, not just a "cab". A half cab is a 180 going from switch back to the regular stance. When speaking, cab spins are frontside spins (on a snowboard) because it is not common to say cab backside 540.. when something is backside and started switch people put switch backside in front of the spin such as a switch backside 540 (switch back 5 for short).

In skiing I'm not exactly sure how it works with natural/unnatural spinning. Sorry =\

Answer 2

Well, it goes back to skateboarding. A Caballarial (Cab for short) was a trick invented by Steve Caballaro. It was a trick in which you went up the wall of a halfpipe switch, did a frontside 360 and came back down the wall forward. It has been adapted from skateboarding to snowboarding and then to skiing.

Basically a cab 5 is a switch frontside 540. Strictly speaking, you should pop from your forward foot (that's a true cab) and not from your back foot (that's a switch frontside spin) but no one seems to pay attention to that anymore.

Answer 3

cab is spinning fakie but popping off the nose was adapted from fakie spins from skateboarding (fakie is cab where switch is not)

Answer 4

its more like a 180