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RudyGarmisch

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This is from 2001.

[video]https://vimeo.com/15907608[/video]

**This thread was edited on Dec 23rd 2017 at 12:45:43am
 
Ahhh Yeah!

That Mike Nick zero spin was so damn good.

Was it Kris Ostness who double flipped Chad's?

That movie basically set the standard for gaps. Chad's, pyramid, leviathan.
 
I remember in 2001-02 people on the hill were telling me I couldn't wear baggy clothes because I wasn't a snowboarder. It's not that old and yet seems like a lifetime away...
 
13871983:SofaKingSick said:
Yep! It's Marc Andre iirc

Risky flip two clips before that way ahead of its time too (arguable)
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Everyone hated on doubles and the risky flip so much at that time. I get it though, the sport was trying to distance itself from other "established" forms of skiing like aerials. Too bad for Schrabs.
 
That was very enjoyable, some of those cliff drops were massive. Superman frontflip was insane.
 
13872112:Titus69 said:
when did double corks first happen?

ogs sent hard
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I think Mike Wilson had some of the first double corks. Not sure what

movie but when he's hitting that pipe gap thing I think he does one

there.
 
13872144:VinnieF said:
I think Mike Wilson had some of the first double corks. Not sure what

movie but when he's hitting that pipe gap thing I think he does one

there.
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The first "cool" double flip was probably the kang flip by Jon Olsen. First double cork? Tough to say but definitely Wilson could be a contender. The one you're talking about was an MSP movie... A lot of different double combos were done in the 70s through aerials. When this came out, a lot of old school (at the time) dudes were doing dub flips and fucking sending it. They were gnarly but not exactly getting a lot of love for it. A big portion of the "core" community was into seeing things like urban skiing, unnatural spins, innovative grabs, and style over big gaps over things that were more relatable to aerials or anything influenced by FIS. In this era, the schrabs and others were really thrown under the bus for doing doubles,

At this time, "newschool" skiing was more interested in what people like JF Cusson, Tanner Hall, Pep Fujas, and Dave Crichton were doing. It's not to say sending big ol' doubles and big gaps wasn't important or appreciated but at the time people were doing things that actually hadn't been done on skis before. Tanner's Dspin 10 a year later caused a bigger fuss than than any trick in this movie. A perfect storm of Kris Ostness film-making and at the time "cool" skiing came a few years later with Teddy Bear Crisis.
 
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