I skate nollie but everyone seems to think its fakie



My Nollie trick list:
Nollie tre
Nollie kickflip/heelflip
Nollie varial kickflip

Attempting:
Nollie Hardflips

I cannot kickflip or shuv in goofy even though im a goofy skater but i am very good at skating nollie!

What do you mean that you skate nollie?

You skate regular or goofy, and you perform an ollie or a nollie.
To use the expression "I skate nollie" doesnt seem to make sense to me.
I think you are saying that you do a lot of nollie tricks. Is that correct?

Nollie is technically a switch fakie ollie, though.

Instead of calling your tricks a "nollie tre" - you could call it a switch fakie ollie tre.

I'm a bit confused also...?

Snowslider is on the money there...

i call crap on that... i just argued this with my cousin who is a skater...he agrees with snowslider but i dont buy it.

if you are regular footed and you ollie its an ollie
if you are regular footed and you ollie off the nose its a nollie
it aint switch unless you are doing it goofy when you are regular footed.

Lets start with stance Diablo what is your stance? Nollie is a nose ollie so when you are going in your normal stance in a forward direction popping of the nose with your front foot that is nollie.

Banger you are right when you say "if you are regular footed and you ollie off the nose its a nollie"
But what is important is the direction you are going.... Which CJ points out correctly "Nollie is a nose ollie so when you are going in your normal stance in a forward direction popping of the nose with your front foot that is nollie."

With your front foot (regular or goofy - whatever your front foot is)... on the nose, (meaning the natural nose of the board, should it be going in it's correct direction)...
is the same as SWITCH FAKIE.
the term "switch fakie" is just not used.

Thanks to skateboarding for letting snowboarding use these terms, but I'm glad that we are limited to one term and not 2.
See, snowboarders dont use the term fakie, we say switch instead... technicall a snowboards would have to strap-in backwards to be switch in the same sense that skateboarders use the terms.
Snowboarders say switch when we really mean fakie, but since we cant go switch and fakie... the term switch rolls off the tongue better.
But when a skier goes backwards and they call it switch... COME ON!
it's backwards, call it what it is!

diablo1234, keep up those nollie tricks. I say this because I'm pretty much terrible at skating nollie or switch. I know a few people like that, who can do lots of flips nollie or switch but can't do them normal stance. Some might think that's weird, but hey, rip them up in games of skate.

ollie, nollie / switch, fakie

Snowboarders can use all them, it depends on your stance and which tail you pop off.



(Anyways shouldn't this be in the skate thread?)

snowboarders do use two terms for going the "other way" though...switch and cab?

Switch and Cab are two different things...

Switch means riding backwards (opposite to your dominant direction).

Cab refers to spinning switch frontside. Any time you spin from switch in a frontside direction, it is considered a cab spin. i.e. half cab = switch frontside 180, cab 540 = switch frontside 540. 'Cab' was actually taken from skateboarding - named after Steve Caballero.

haha yeah I knew all that about steve caballero but I didn't realise it was specifically switch frontside spins...I thought it was just any switch spin but there you go - a hole in my knowledge sewn up. haha thanks!

No problem.

Yeah if you spin switch the other way it's just a switch backside spin.

I always think of it in terms of which way I am facing, then what foot I would pop with.

If I stand Regular (which I am)
Pop with the right foot = Ollie
Pop with the left = Nollie

If I stand Goofy
Pop with the right foot = Fakie
Pop with the left = Switch

The only ones which dont seem consistent are front and backside.

They seem to interchange with each other. My thought is that if you come up to the object and were to ride past it, which side of you facing it determines your front or back. If you would be looking at it front on as you ride past I believe its frontside. If you were to have your back facing it, and you couldnt see it as you ride past, then its backside.

Examples where its reversed seem to be where you spin. As an example, if you ride regular, spinning to your right I have had people call frontside, and vice versa, not sure on this, whats the go ?

- Fox®

sick man get variations going. nollie back heels please!

Yeah the naming of frontside and backside is a little odd. Phox, a regular rider spinning right (so their back faces downhill during the first 180) would be backside. You are right about what is frontside and backside on a box/rail etc.

Mizu I think that's just a switch tail grab.