Fakie

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Fakie is, in skateboarding, a synonym for riding backwards on a skateboard. When used in conjunction with a trick name, like "fakie ollie", it means that the trick was performed while riding on the front, rather than the back of the board. The name derives from the trick being a fake nollie, a trick that is usually harder to do but looks very similar.

This is not to be confused with the switch stance, in which a normally regular skater is riding with the weaker foot forward.

In snowboarding, riding with the weaker foot forward is called riding switch, and tricks done while switch are called fakie tricks. These two are easily confused.

See also: footedness