corked ??

haha your in the wrong sport if you dont like crashing alot! you gotta take your hits like Mike d says. When i was learning corks (which i still havent exactly perfected) its all about trial and error i spin to the right and just drop my left shoulder and tuck my knees according to how much rotation is needed.


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yea, you just a to lend to the side or the back by throwing a houlder down...

The thing is to land, the easiest way is to do cork 720, and when you reach 540, look at the landing iunder your shoulder, this way, You'll land straight on your feets.
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Its not too tuff. Tramps help a lot. Lets see basically I jump up, lunge forward and to my left and spin or when Im getting psyched out on spinning I just do the same first 2 steps and open up my right shoulder so my body is flat with the ramp looking straight up (yeah that last explanation was shitty but it may help). To uncork just think landing on your feet. When I am at about 360 I just think about landing like you would a straight air. Something else to try, its stupid but works. Okay go up to your bed, turn 90 degrees, bend over like your puking, then do a half cartwheel on to your bed, come off the other side completing the cartwheel, straighten out and do another 90. Dont know if thats a proper cork but you will get the motion down. Spend a lot of time on the tramp. Start spinning on your side and try to come back out of it, it will come eventually. For me the cork came to me at whistler when some kid was trying to teach me misties on the tramp, I learned that I could either spin on my side and just cork it or really throw my shoulder down and make it more inverted for a misty. Oh yeah be pretty good with 540s, and make sure you try and cork out spins 540 or more, its hard to cork 360s. Its super hard for me to explain, maybe some of that helped maybe it confused the fuck out of you but Im trying to think of how to explain this sitting at my comp.

Ive only learned this on the off season and didnt have the time to learn it on snow at camp but I can land it pretty consistently on blades. Dont know how this will translate to snow but I guess Ill find out next week or soon thereafter.

yeah its weird though, ok now I'm side ways, how am I gonna land back on axis on my feet...my friend tried a corked and just landed on his back


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I dont know you jsut gotta throw your body back on axis. It took me a while. It took lots of practice. Maybe try misties first, cuz with misties the rotation (usually) naturally brings you back to your feet. When you have a good sense of the misty you can tweak it so its more like a corked spin.

i thought corked was just a tilted spin and all you had to do was drop your shoulder alittle. I guess landing one would be pretty easy, since you would just have to look at the ground and you would naturally straighten out

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its all about dropping your shoulder and knowing where you are in the air. personally, i feel more comfortable corking spins when i add a grab, but maybe thats just me.

dude, the key is to watch the landing under your shoulder, this way, your body will come back on the normal spinning axis by itself... at least, it worked for most of the peoples I know.
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they aren't sooo hard... once you get them.
they feel really really akward at the start... but once you learn to just trust it, they are pretty easy. They feel realy nice in the air too.

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No.. No you didn't. Threads exactly like this still pop up every damn day

Chris Turpin taught me how to cork. He said learn a normal 720 or 540. Add a safety with arm that leads your spin, and once you've perfected the safety in order to cork you just have to drop the hand on the side of the arm you are grabbing with to cork.