The forward powerslide or full frontal powerslide starts with the skater skating forward and spinning sideways to a stop. In a backward powerslide, the skater starts out skating backward. A roundhouse powerslide starts with the skater skating either forward or backward, spinning to face the opposite way, and in the same movement executing a powerslide. In
Motorsports, a powerslide is mechanically synonymous with a
Handbrake turn, except that the vehicle continues to travel in a relatively straight line, and is often used to either stop quickly - as with a hockey stop, or perform sharp turns in spaces too tight for conventional drifting, up to and including an on-the-spot 180-degree turn if the vehicle's momentum is high enough. ==References==