What is a Half-Cab 180 Ollie?

Series Summary

Skateboarding has come a long way from its modest origins in the innocent suburbs of America in the 1950s. At first, a skateboard was nothing more than a wooden plank with wheels. We can now thank the radical, mind-altering attitudes of the televised revolution that was the 1960s for the increased popularity and production of skateboards. Certainly designated as “what the cool kids do,” skateboarding's third generation has taken the sport to a whole new level. Nearly every man, woman, and child knows someone who has skated or is currently skating. Though known as a popular hobby for the youth counter culture and modern day punk scene, skateboarding has been accepted by all kinds of people and age groups. Learn how to do half-cab 180 Ollie's on a skateboard in this free video series on skateboarding trick tips featuring skateboarder Shawn Connelly. Connelly demonstrates proper footwork for half-cab 180 Ollies, how to prepare for half-cabs, how to do a half-cab frontside, how to avoid common skateboarding mistakes for half-cab frontside Ollies, and how to nollie frontside 180 kickflip.

Video Transcript

"The half cab 180 ollie. The name comes from a full cab, or a caballerial. Caballerial was a vert maneuver invented by Steve Caballero so that's where it's gets it's name. The half cab is exactly what it says, it's a half of a caballerial. So a caballerial is when you roll backwards and do half of a full turn so that's just enough to turn you back to rolling straight forward. So what you want to do is you want to set up in a fakie position and do a half cab 180 ollie, or a fakie 180 ollie, and land rolling forward. The things that you'll need to do this trick before you try it is you'll want to get very comfortable rolling in a fakie position, more importantly you'll want to get really good at rolling in the fakie position into the fakie ollie position. This is going to be very much different from rolling in a fakie position because your weight is going to be distributed in the direction that you're rolling so it's a little easier to tip and to get your balance off. So once you're ready to do a half cab 180 is you're going to want to set up your feet in a half cab position, in a fakie ollie position for the half cab, hit your tail and turn 180 in the direction that you can see and that's how you do a half cab 180 ollie."