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WATERSKI MagazineIf you're confused about all the new-fangled wakeboard terms, you're not alone. The hardest thing about wakeboarding isn't getting up on the water, it's learning the names of the tricks. However, once you realize that most terms are just synonyms for tricks you may already be using on a trick ski, you'll talk the talk in no time.
Unfortunately, there are rules to wakeboarding trick names. For instance, the term switch-stance should only be applied to tricks that are performed from start to finish in the backward position. Therefore, a fakie-to-fakie roll is also a switch-stance roll. However, a roll-to-revert cannot be named roll-to-switch. And although you may hear someone say they did a switch-stance front flip-to-front, it's actually a half-cab front flip.
Confused? It takes time and practice, but for now here are a few general rules:
If it's taking off it's fakie; if it's landing it's revert; taking off fakie and landing revert (or fakie) is switch-stance; and if it sounds like food (chicken salad, melon, etc.) it's probably a grab. – Heather Lee
