Complete Guide to Skateboard Stances: Demystifying Frontside vs. Backside

[@whythetrick]

I'm more than terrified to release this video haha. Although I believe my understanding is right, kindly let me know if you spot anything wrong. Voting Platform: whythetrick.io/skateboarding-stance-list/

[@SkateAndExplore817]

Great explanation and 100% correct. Many people get the nollies wrong. You nailed it.

[@marcsllite]

Nice video. It would be nice to build a reference for trick names on obstacles. They also seem to follow a pattern like the naming of frontside and backside tricks except there is also a dependency on where the nose/tail are in relation to the obstacle.

[@flickeringscreens]

Thanks, this clears things up

[@jarrenjose6230]

love this vid, even though there are established names for tricks, these names sometimes don't follow a consistent logic that other tricks do

[@jfranciscobtz]

I think you should include grinds and slides, some people struggles to understad fs boardsilides while you are turning backside

[@whythetrick]

Sorry I had to put it at the farthest back of the video, but there's a section about grinds/slides. Kindly refer to this. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y3-sioiwZ8ifgNE

[@jfranciscobtz]

@@whythetrick Oh my bad, didn't put attention to that section.

[@MatthewMaranan]

Ive always thought about this - when you are going in your normal stance and you do a hardflip would you recognize that a nollie hardflip is a hardflip? or does that change suddenly to a varial?

[@whythetrick]

Excellent point. If I understand your question right, it is a Nollie Hardflip. Let's say you are rolling in the Nollie stance and spin your board in the Nollie Backside direction (the direction in which you push your front foot forward). Combine the spin with a Kickflip, then you have a Nollie Hardflip.

[@MatthewMaranan]

@@whythetrick Yeah that’s what I and a lot of my other skate friends concluded as well! Btw I will be in Tokyo and Osaka next week visiting, I wanted to check out that park in your videos with the Train as a place to skate but I wanted to ask you if there is a local Skateshop that is skater owned that you know of - I want to support the locals!

[@240high]

Nice video dude i cant help but notice alot of videos cover shuv its, kickflip and treflips any chance we could get why the trick heelflip!???

[@whythetrick]

Working on it. Please give me some more time.

[@240high]

@@whythetrick oh please take your time !!! Just wondered if there was one in the works!!

[@zueiraplay_22]

Hello, I'm having trouble landing my heelflips, and I don't really know why. My back foot always stays lower than the catch area, like below the wheels line. I can't really explain it, but there was a time when I landed a couple of heelflips and they felt perfect. Anyways, I'm here to ask if you can make a video explaining how to do heelflips, like you did with the kickflip and 360 flip. It would be really helpful 😭

[@whythetrick]

Working on it. Just a quick tip. Extending the lower leg is not the only way to flip a skateboard. Your can boost the flipping force by lowering your upper body, pulling the hip, in a way your body becomes like > when seen from forward. Will try making a video soon. Please wait.

[@zueiraplay_22]

@@whythetrick Ok I'll try, thanks 🙏

[@swr410]

Hmm, I disagree about nollie spins and shuvs. If you have to kick the nose forward to make the shuv happen, that’s a front shuv. It’s funny, because I’d agree that you get this right for fakie.

[@whythetrick]

How about this: In SNOWBOARDING, the direction in which you open your body is always Frontside in Nollie. Please refer to this one. **There should be tons of videos like this. m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/mIWqhqqOd619h8U The point is it is the direction of the body and board that determines the name, NOT the way you use your body. Thought snowboarding would make it easier to visualize what I mean.

[@swr410]

@@whythetrick that’s because they’re a bunch of dummies, i guess 😄

[@swr410]

@@whythetrick Well, after reading more online, it seems you are indeed correct, according to the consensus I can find. That still seems wrong to me, though, lol, but I’m glad to realize what the “right” way is. Snowboarders are fixed to the middle of their board, so it makes sense they don’t really differentiate between ollie and nollie turns, but skateboarding is so much about how you manipulate the board with your feet, popping either the nose or tail, so it seems a bit silly how things ended up. Oh well. I’ll just keep explaining things with charades when talking to people. Cheers man, and please keep up the awesome videos!

[@Just_SK8]

I think they should have called it a leftspin or a right spin.

[@whythetrick]

Haha. Point taken.

[@BeatnikBrent]

I disagree on your fakie rotations labels. When I checked the voting polls, it seems like there is some disagreement in the community here too. When checking other sources however... it seems I am just wrong?! In my mind, the point of reference is not the direction of rotation, but rather an invisible obstacle in front of you. Imagine you are doing flat ground tricks over an invisible obstacle (like an invisible manhole cover, pebble, or crack in the pavement) and the naming conventions can be the same as they are for anything else. The naming conventions come from surfing, so frontside/backside are not referencing a direction of body rotation (clockwise/anticlockwise) they are referencing the obstacle (wave). In flat ground skating the obstacle is the ground in front of you. So I always thought a frontside half cab would be a clockwise rotation for a regular footed skater. The callallerial on vert vs on flat ground now makes no sense to me. A caballerial on vert is actually called a BACKSIDE rotation?! What is happening?! lol

[@whythetrick]

I know, right? But Cab's been BACKSIDE ever since.

[@mtgguiltfeeder4111]

The only thing I disagree on is that fakie is different than nollie. IMO they should be treated the same in that you are popping off of the “nose”. I don’t like the idea of fakie being regular but riding backwards but I understand why it’s treated as such.

[@therhinopotomus1286]

Should go over fakie manny, fakie nosegrinds, fakie frontside tailslide. That's a whole other realm of bullshit.