Well, the "logic" for fakie is that your tail remains the reference even though you are popping backwards. Therefore you would spin the same direction for fakie fs 180 as you would for regular fs 180.
> I never figured out how to classify nollie/fakie board and lip slides front or back
Yep this one still trips me up to and is great argument over some beers. Especially when you introduce flip tricks into them as well :p
Woah! That's so random, I recently came across your article a few months ago. Great work and small world :)
I have a private discord and github for the project I can add you too. I eventually plan to open up the discord for anyone once we get a little further in the rebuild.
Wish there was a good way to DM on HN, I can send you a discord invite. Or if you happen to be on slap let me know.
Here's a fun one to debate with your skate friends, nollie and fakie tricks are "swapped".
For example:
- nollie fs 180 and fakie fs 180 (fs half cab) are two different directions: nollie fs 180 is in front of you and fakie fs 180 is behind you going blind
- nollie 5-0 and fakie 5-0 (fakie switch nosegrind) lean differently on the grind: nollie 5-0 you pop off your nose and land on your back truck, fakie 5-0 you pop off your tail and land on your front truck
- nollie noseslide and fakie noseslide are different motions to get into the slide: nollie nose you pop off nose and land on the nose in the ledge, fakie nose you pop off tail and land on the nose but you do a sort of half cab
The key distinction in the argument is that in fakie, your tail is always considered your "tail". Therefore you treat any derived tricks as being "backwards". In the 5-0 and noseslide examples, you're still popping off the front of your board, but you classify it as nose or tail based on if it's nollie or fakie.
There are caveats though such as "fakie crook" where if you kept the rule it should be "fakie suski", which no one says.
There's a million arbitrary and nonsensical rules in skateboarding which is part of the reason to love it, especially for something that "has no rules".
And remember, never carry your board by your truck :)
Yeah for sure, the way the foot wraps with the board is the visual cue. It has led me and friends to some fun debates in a game of skate i.e. "that wasn't an impossible", so I was hoping to be able to point to some ridiculous mathematical definition the next time it comes up.
I'm guessing it's kickflip, heelflip, bs shuv, and fs shuv.
Your definition leaves out varial heels and inward heels.
Edit: On second thought I'm still not sure, I saw this in the paper, and I'm guessing they're classifying both direction shuvs as the same, and kick/heelflip as the same
Below we list these four tricks with their corresponding residue class in Z/4Z.
0 ↔ Ollie
1 ↔ 180 Shove-it
2 ↔ 360 Shove-it
3 ↔ 540 Shove-it
Another interesting choice of representatives is given by a combination of the shove-it
and the kickflip.
Kurt Vonnegut is really great, my personal favorite is Sirens of Titan which is his most "sci-fi" of the bunch but I wouldn't really call it sci-fi. Other great starting points are Cat's Cradle, Mothernight, and of course Slaughterhouse Five.
I've only read one Toni Morrison book, Song of Solomon, but that was one of my favorite reads of this year.
If you haven't read Frankenstein or Dracula then I would highly recommend them. I personally enjoyed Frankenstein much more than I thought I would.
Norse Mythology and Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman are also fun reads.
If you want some non-fiction, Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer is a very engaging read.
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