What is a Half Cab?

Series Summary

Skateboarding is a sport that lends itself to many, and varied tricks - some dangerous and some not, some very easy and others extremely difficult. Skateboarding continues to gain in popularity, and with the increase of skateboarders come new skateboarding moves, tricks, and techniques. Just keeping up with all of the tricks such as the half cab is a challenging task. Learning new techniques is not difficult if someone shows you how. If you would like to learn how to do a half cab, you can learn from one of our experts for free and online.

In this free skateboarding video lesson, learn how to do a half cab from expert Joshua Blankenship. Joshua will show you how to position your feet for a half cab, how to slide your foot for a half cab, how rotate your shoulders to half cab, how to land a half cab, how to half cab down a curb, how to half cab up a curb, how to half cab a gap, how to half cab down stairs, how to half cab on a ramp, how to be creative with half cabs, and how to avoid half cab mistakes.

Video Transcript

"JOSHUA BLANKENSHIP: Hi. My name is Joshua Blankenship with Expert Village and today I'm going to teach you what a "frontside half cab" is. A frontside half cab is half of a "Caballero" who is named from the pro skateboarder, Steve Caballero, 'cause he used to do them a lot. So, the difference between a frontside Caballero and a backside Caballero: So in frontside Caballero, when you pop the board, you're looking in the direction you're going--you're turning. For the backside you can't really see; it's to your back. So frontside half cab is 180 degrees or half of Caballero, and that's what a frontside half cab is."