Has cork lost it's meaning?

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Since when was cork and flip the same?

This is perhaps a worse phenomenon in snowboarding, but I notice it on the ski side, too! Especially in the media!

People are landing more new triples at the time, and the headline reads "New tripplecork", and with the article follows a movie without a single cork, but with that now, Jørn Simen Aabøs Tripple frontside RODEO!

Last year, Torstein Horgom won x games (2011) with tripplecork, which was actually a triple backflip 180, or not to mention Tom Wallish Dew Tour runs which consists of more than just corks!

I also notice when I follow the slopestyle competition on TV, skiing and snowboarding, that all double flips are called cork, regardless of whether the athlete pulls the flip sideways, forwards or backwards!

As if that's not enough, I also see pretty corks that can only bereferred to as a simple spin, "nice 900, 1080 etc" (but he should have dipped his head benith his body once or twice, judges like that!) something that seems quite contradictory.

This is gonna get so much worse in the olympics as well!

How hard can it be to hire a reporter who can name the tricks, or find someone in each case bothered to do a reserch?

Does this anoy you as well, or don't you think it matters?
 
it does annoy me when i'm watching x games or the dew tour and I could to a better job naming the tricks haha
 
Or like in Wallischs X-games slopestyle run where the announcers said that he did "sideways flips" when i think it was a dub rodeo
 
it kind of annoyes me to, but not that much, the most annoying is when they call out the wrong rotation, that's the one of the worst move a commentator can make!
 
Luke Van-Valin (The man!) almost never calls tricks wrong when he announces, but yeah it is annoying when others screw up. I think the most annoying failure to name tricks correctly though is youtube comments. I read them just to laugh.
 
If a cork is off-axis but not inverted, then almost nobody is doing double corks. So yes, it has lost its meaning.
 
I don't really care about trick names, but it is pathetic when a double flat is called a double cork or whatever.
 
LVV does a great job whenever he's naming stuff. Snowboarding and doubles are fucked though, everything is a double cork!
 
I somewhat agree. Bobby is the only one who has done a true triple cork. Dane's was triple rode or flat, essentially the same dub that Sammy did.
 
Yeah it pisses me off so much when anyone misnames a trick, especially flatspin/wackflip. I also hate how Mike Douglas calls EVERYTHING a D-spin.
 
i hate it when people say stuff like this. "oh, that 1080 was just 6 180's in a row" No, you look at the trick as a whole.
 
that snowboard triple frontside rodeo is thrown forward so isn't it not a rodeo?

and wallisch's switch dub 10s are usually called rodeos as they should be and they get bobby's switch dub misties right but everything else is fucked
 
@usace, what im trying to say is that it wasnt even a cork. and besides, you dont call a backflip 180 a rodeo 540, a roeo 5 is spinning 540 degrees while backflipping.
 
Douglas calls every switch double rodeo flatspins. "Here comes Bowman, with his signature alley-oop switch double flat 900" Bowman's trick is dope, but it is a switch alley-oop double rodeo. That and every other time he calls a dub cork a d-spin and a switch dub rodeo a flatspin bug me.
 
That's not true if you spun 540 degrees while backflipping you would do rodeo 9. 360 degrees come from the flip
 
I remember when Brown did his dirst triple flat (sort of) 10 and in every article it said triple cork...

It also bugs me that there are so few "real" double corks, too often it´s a cork 7 to lincon or something like that
 
Now people that think they are good and know a lot about skiing really dont so they try yo name tricks when it is totally wrong. For example one time i was skiing and someone did a 3 and someone said nice iron cross.
 
I still don't understand why they go "bbrown with the sw dub dspin 1260!!" Shit looks like a sw dub cork 12 to me...
 
Some solid points made here. Dub cork 10's and 12's are usually pretty cork, but I definitely agree that the triples so far are much more flip than cork. And as well, the D-Spin has pretty much lost it's meaning as most all cork 9's are what we used to call D-Spins back in the day. I don't really think it matters per-say, a 9 is a 9 no matter what way you describe it in words, and a quick glance by a learned eye can better describe the axis.
 
What announcer were you listening to? At first he called it a dub rodeo 10, then corrected himself to a dub flat 10... Luke is the best, hands down, he was/is a professional skier.
 
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I have to admit it does annoy me when someone does a dub rodeo and the announcers yell out "dub cork"

I just wanna yell, "he went completely upside down, how is that a cork you dumb fucks, maybe if you stopped sucking off shaun white you'd learn the difference."
 
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