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john18061806What should the cutoff be for calling something cork?
I'm voting for 50 degrees off axis or more, and it must clearly come back around.
john18061806What should the cutoff be for calling something cork?
I'm voting for 50 degrees off axis or more, and it must clearly come back around.
Cork
A cork is a off axis spin that is leaned back, but so that the rider does not go inverted at any point. It is a popular trick, and many pro’s and amateurs do these very well.
Bio
A forward corking non-inverted spin. Note the lean the rider has forwards at about 360. Also, see CR Johnson in SM2, SM3 or Propaganda, he does them best.
D-spin
Set the same way a cork is, but is more leaned back. A d-spin is essentially any cork where you become inverted. In all of these videos note how the feet will go above the head. Evan Raps does these very well, also see Mike Douglas.
Flatspin
Flatspins are very close to rodeos. They are thrown almost the exact same, but the difference is that in a flatspin, the rider never gets completely inverted. Heres a way to think about it: A line extending through you from your head to your toes when you stand up. In a rodeo, this line ends up completely inverted at some point (although your feet can be somewhere else, like leaned back in a tail or a mute or something) while in a flatspin, this line never reaches true vertical. The line between what is a rodeo and a flatspin is understandably very blurry, especially when one considers tweaked grabs and such.
TWoodsWe stopped being able to take the moral high ground on calling tricks when everyone started calling wackflips "flat 3" back in like 2008. We live in a world where people are allowed to "identify" their tricks as whatever they want. It's a free for all now.
**This post was edited on Apr 5th 2019 at 12:53:35pm
TWoodsRead this shit.
Awesome throwback to the days before doubles when you'd get called out for mis-calling tricks.
https://www.newschoolers.com/forum/thread/221589/A-Trick-Guide-2--The-difference-between-bio--cork--d-spin--misty--rodeo--flatspin-and-underflip
SimplySkiingA cork 3 is not a safety 3 while looking at your toes
SimplySkiingA cork 3 is not a safety 3 while looking at your toes
ElizabethWarrenI love corks just as much as the next guy but personally it also gets on my nerves when a rider calls (let’s just say) a 10 but they don’t specify cork, and then proceed to bang out a completely corked 10. I think the rider should have to specify if it’s a cork and if they don’t call cork and do a cork the trick shouldn’t count. This is just because I think with a lot of larger spins it actually becomes easier to do a cork than spin a straight spin (maybe with spins over 9)
big.lovedo a flat based 9 or 10, no cork. Its harder than cork 9 & 10 and harder control.
trifonitchevso ill do a pencil 1080 while looking down and demand it to be identified as tripple 1080 (sarcasm)
TWoodsThat's absolutely correct
"PLEASE REFER TO MY TRICK BY MY PREFERRED AXIS IDENTITY"
BrawnTrendsThe X-Games definition of a cork:
"The skier does one distinct off-axis or inverted horizontal rotation. At no point should the skier’s feet be above their head."
Hugo Burvall's Cork 5 blunt in his last game of SLVSH:
freeskibum82The video isnt even level. straighten out the horizon line and he is in fact corked with his head almost at the same plane as his feet.
BrawnTrendsThe X-Games definition of a cork:
"The skier does one distinct off-axis or inverted horizontal rotation. At no point should the skier’s feet be above their head."
Hugo Burvall's Cork 5 blunt in his last game of SLVSH:
BrawnTrendsI did, and his feet are still above his head. You can compare it with his ao cork 5 lead mute in that same game:
eheathThe pictures look the same bruh
BrawnTrendsLet’s agree to disagree on this one, interpretation is subjective anyway (so is the definition of a cork these days).
What’s the limit of invertion on a cork then? Is there even one? When does too much cork stops being a cork and becomes something else.
eheathYou're talking about a pretty rare situation with even a more rare outcome, getting nit picky about an off axis 540 is ridiculous.
BrawnTrendsIt’s more a general question, the screen grabs were just examples because I had it in mind (just like Colby’s cork 6 out I just saw in his game an hour ago). I’m sure there are many more examples.
Speaking of Colby’s Game... Interesting call from Woodsy on Taisei’s cork 6, completely on topic with the general discussion here.
Was it really a cork?
trifonitchevThanks doctor
