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 with your normal back foot as the front foot on the nose of the board, rather than the back of the board. The name derives from the trick being a fake nollie. A Nollie is more difficult, because a Fakie still uses the same muscles as an ollie.

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.

Fakie is also used in BMX, Freestyle Skating, Skiing, and Surfing. It is not common in surfing. However, in BMX, Freestyle Skating, and Skiing, Fakie is when you are riding backwards, and when you do tricks from fakie.

Often in sports, to make a trick sound better, They'll add "to fakie" at the end of the name if the rider lands fakie. In skateboarding, it is usually only used when riding a half-pipe. In snowboarding, In a Park event, Landing the other way from natural is landing switch. In a Pipe event, It is called landing Fakie.

See also: footedness