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you only spin 180 when you do a misty "5"
Alright technically there are 2 different moves that people are calling lincolns. If you look at footage, which I don't have, of Eddie Lincoln doing it back in the 70's; it was like a cartwheel going across the fall line. Normally, if you spin counterclock naturally, you would do a cartwheel by putting your left hand down first. You would also do a classic lincoln loop by cartwheeling to your left. The videos I remember seeing of Ed doing his loop, it looked like someone stuck a pole through his stomach and then rotated him on that like a spit, if that makes sense. Seth Morrison was the first guy I saw doing a new version of a lincoln which he starts like a Misty but the flip is going across the fall line and he doesn't rotate. That is the big difference. If you flip like this ↕; it's a misty. If you flip like this ↔; it's a lincoln. The way Morrison does his Lincoln, he tucks and then barrel rolls. That is totally different from what the original Lincoln Loop was, but they both are flipping across the fall line. You see some tricks where the guy/girl is flipping side ways or at a 90 from the direction their skis are going and it looks like a lincoln, but it isn't. It's only a Lincoln if the flip is at a 90 to the direction of the takeoff and/or direction that the skier is traveling.
What is a Lincoln 180 called, I don't know. In both of the vids posted, the flip is going down the fall line, so neither of those are Lincolns. Like it or not, the trick is called a Lincoln because Ed Lincoln was the first guy to ever do it in a comp. Everyone else was doing front flips, back flips and the infamous mobius which was a full twisting backflip or back 360. Ed's trick was unique because he took his flip across the fall line. Ed past away late last year. He lived about 15 minutes away from me and I didn't know it until after he died. It would have been sweet to buy him a beer. Chris Anthony did a great story on him. Chris had him as a freestyle coach at Copper, when he was little.
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You could call it the "missing Linc".
https://newschoolers.com/web/content/viewvideo/id/259698/
that tricks seems kind of unique to what's already been said, but is fairly common.
jk.. Johnny Mosely
