. . . because this is how it all ends. Just ask Franck Bare. Is this really where you want to take snowboarding Mark McMorris?
The Corking Escalation Must Stop Now
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I feel like you may have missed an opportunity here to say “put a cork in it” or something along those lines.
Haha…Haters. Get a grip. Snowboarding has no place to go but forward. I agree the tricks are getting nuts but thats what happens in sport (duh).
Team Push.ca here… Backside 180s are going nowhere, why not let the kids have their fun with the flipping and twisting and whatnot?
http://push.ca/blogs/sayer/archive/2011/03/02/mark-mcmorris-bs-1440-triple-cork.aspx
I agree with Push. snowboarding has always been about and will continue to be about style. nothing started out looking extremely good, but over time 180s got steezier and grabs became more tweaked.
Look at the first double corks, and look at them now- especially McMorris’ backside 10 nose. If that’s not style I don’t know what is. Let people progress. Style will come to triple corks soon enough.
(because if there’s one thing snowboarders will never be, it’s skiiers)
Word!
McMorris has the best double backside 10!
Most the new so called “pro snowboarders” cannot even do a decent good style frontside or backside air. I’m talking with GOOD style. These spins grabbing the nose or tail(easiest grab when hucking into oblivion) are freakin beat. Start grabbing stale or melon for christ sake and try to learn what good style really is.
Mark Mcmorris is the real deal! Makings of a legend! You cant compare pizza pie and french fry to snowboarding!
that skier dude is siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick!! more corks please.
Why hate? If this is where the sport diverges and those who love to spin as fast and hard as possible with no thought about steez want to do that. More power to them. Snowboarding for me will always be about flow but it means different things to different people. You can’t put Torstein Horgmo and Xavier De La Rue in order of who is better, they have different ideals and ride to those ideals. You sound like a snot nosed little park brat when you say “thats not what snowboarding is about”, you know, one of those kids who has been snowboarding for a month but knows the name of every trick and tells you how wrong you are doing it. This kind of riding might not be your cup of tea but its sick in its own right and who the hell are you to say what is and what isnt snowboarding.
One of these guys was going to do it sooner or later. They’ve been thinking about it all season. Might as well be McMorris, because the one thing you can’t accuse the kid of is not having style.
Unlike, say, Ulrik’s 1620 which was the ugliest looking nute grab in the history of tailfish/tindy panic-grab ballerina spins — of which there are many — and is far more deserving of a triple twisting backflip comparison than Mark’s beautiful, stomped triple cork.
If we are going to call out tricks and style, we should at least call out the right ones…
You can’t stop progression. McMorris’s triple was stylier than Torstein’s. Back when I started riding a lot, the gap between what I could do and what the pros were doing was pretty close: I was doing 3’s badly and they were doing 7’s badly. As time goes by the gap between them and us grows bigger and bigger, which kinda sucks. But the alternative is stagnation.
What I would like to see is a mandatory style round in any big air comp. 360° max. Because it’s just so damn hard to appreciate style when they’re spinning at mach ten.
http://vimeo.com/22548816
this is the right contest, anything over a 720 and your run doesnt count, hahaha
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