Switch

See also relay, transistor, short circuit, closed circuit, open circuit, transient circuit analysis, steady state.

ex. If you are regular your left foot is your lead foot. Therefore if you switch to your right foot leading you are riding switch. Viceversa for goofy footers.

In some cases it is not called switch, but fakie. This is how and when the terms are used:
1. If you are riding in your normal stance and you do a 180/540/900 you come out riding switch.
2. If you begin a run (by pushing off) in the opposite stance to your regular stance you are riding fakie.
3. If you are riding switch or fakie and you grind you are doing a switch grind.
4. If you are riding switch or fakie and you go off a jump you are doing a switch trick.
5. If you are riding switch or fakie and you do a 360/720/1080 you come out riding switch.
6. If you begin grinding up a rail in your normal stance - for this example doing a nosegrind - and start coming back down you are doing a fakie 5'0.

Fakie is usually worth more points than switch in a competition, though fakie is a far less common move.

Switch (?), n. [Cf. OD. swick a scourage, a whip. Cf. Swink, Swing.]

1.

A small, flexible twig or rod.

Mauritania, on the fifth medal, leads a horse with something like a thread; in her other hand she holds a switch.
Addison.

2. (Railways)

A movable part of a rail; or of opposite rails, for transferring cars from one track to another.

3.

A separate mass or trees of hair, or of some substance (at jute) made to resemble hair, worn on the head by women.

4. (Elec.)

A mechanical device for shifting an electric current to another circuit.

Safety switch (Railways), a form of switch contrived to prevent or lessen the danger of derailment of trains. --
Switch back (Railways), an arrangement of tracks whereby elevations otherwise insurmountable are passed. The track ascends by a series of zigzags, the engine running alternately forward and back, until the summit is reached. --
Switch board (Elec.), a collection of switches in one piece of apparatus, so arranged that a number of circuits may be connected or combined in any desired manner. --
Switch grass. (Bot.) See under Grass.

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Switch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Switched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Switching.]

1.

To strike with a switch or small flexible rod; to whip. Chapman.

2.

To swing or whisk; as, to switch a cane.

3.

To trim, as, a hedge. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

4.

To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; -- generally with off, from, etc.; as, to switch off a train; to switch a car from one track to another.

5. (Eccl.)

To shift to another circuit.

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Switch, v. i.

To walk with a jerk. [Prov. Eng.]

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Switch (?), n. (Elec.)

A device for shifting an electric current to another circuit, or for making and breaking a circuit.

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