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I want to cork and I’m feeling somewhat confident. But Im not the best jumper. I can do basic grabs and little tricks like ski crosses and shifty kinda stuff. I can do 3s, 5s, and 7s too but I can’t do a backflip or anything like that. Should I try a cork or do I need more jumping experience? Also what kind of cork would be best (3 or 5, no way i cork 7). Any tips would be appreciated too
Can you do them on a trampoline? I wouldn’t recommend attempting them unless you can do them on a trampoline. They usually take a bit to figure out, and trampolines are much more forgiving.
Cork 7 is a crazy fun trick. Its also scary because its hard to see whats happening. I hurt myself for 10 years trying to nail the trick without having a good 720.
The breakthrough occured when I reached for a safety too soon on a 45ft step down jump. It caused the 7 to go off axis, but held the grab until I was in a better position to crash. Somehow, the off axis corrected itself after the 540 by looking up at the landing.
Next try, I replicated the mistake, but exaggerated the motion and boom! I learnt the cork 7.
SquirtleCan you do them on a trampoline? I wouldn’t recommend attempting them unless you can do them on a trampoline. They usually take a bit to figure out, and trampolines are much more forgiving.
Worst case scenario.... Hmmm. Death. Unlikely but death via: broken neck, traumatic brain injury, vertebral dissection, open fracture leading to sepsis and death, ski pole penetration injury leading to death via hemorrhage, sharp ski edges slice open your neck and you bleed out, collision with gaper in the landing leading to death, scorpion onto ski pole stuck in ground under your chin that rips your head off and you die, land switch out of control and ski into a snow cat/snow machine/tree and die, blunt force trauma from hard snow and die, and of course the most likely is on the rotation around a sparrow flies into your throat and chokes you to death.
I'm bored.
I know there's trampoline parks in NE Ohio. Hit those up this summer if you don't have one.
start learning multiple different grabs in your spins. if you can do 4 different grabs on 5s and 7s, preferably 2 in front of the binding and 2 behind, before you know it you'll be corking naturally. the difference between carving into a 7 blunt or nose mute and carving into a 7 and letting it cork is minimal. also, learn to backflip. backflip 180, underflip and cork 5 are all super similar.
cork 3 is hard to do on a small jump, and a weird axis to learn. most park skiers learn 5s and 7s first.
