How to do corks?

highabove

highabove

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I want to cork my spin but i dont know how to cork them. I would like to have some help about how i spin with my arms and shoulder and everything. the spins are not a problem cause i can spin 720.
 
ok there are many different ways you can do a cork: going straight into a cork, carving a cork, throwing it with your hips, or your arms.

I would strongly recommend that you do most of your spinning with your hips and not your arms. This is going to keep your spins much more controlled, and help stop your arm swining..ie rolling down the windows, or throwing the cat out of the window.

Secondly I would strongly encourage spinning with your hips on corks, it makes them look so much more floaty and smooth. When I come up for corks going straight I will drop my left shoulder (spinning left) and then rotate my hips up and to the right. Thats for 360's, that will help make them look really smooth and slow. For a carve 360 I will carve into the jump doing a 's' turn and right on the take off my body is usually really low with my body really leaning towards the ground. (try the straight take offs frist, they are much easier... less things to worry, and think about. For 720's I will come up to the jump push my left should back and down and to the left, while bringing my hips up and around.

Ummm, sorry about that I had to write it at different times, so hopefully its not all crazy sounding. I have some cork stuff on my profile if u wanna check it out, on how my words sound, compared to how the body looks
 
if i understand well when i do a cork 360, when i arrive on the kicker i just drop my left shoulder and rotate my hips up and right and when i do a cork 720 i drop my left shoulder back and down and i bring my hips around.
 
I think im in the same boat as STL here...im learning to to cork my spins, well at least I want too!

I am just waiting for the right to do them and the right jump to come around...at the moment Ontario is having shitty snow which results in rain which makes ice, so these jumps don't seem ideal for me...but I want to get them.

I have my 5's dialed...and 7's are a little shakey...but maybe i'll just start at cork 5...we'll see...

Still waiting for this nice Ontario day!
 
From what i've heard..it gets easier as you spin faster. My friend is urging me to start at 7...then 5...then 3's. 3's are really tough i hear..but...
 
ok... so whoever up above talked about doing the cork 3's and 7's... thats correct, thats how I do them.

Also I think that its easier to start with cork 3's then work your way up... With cork 3's u can spin it slow and not have to worry about 'getting lost in the air'. Sometimes though on cork 7's i'll get lost cause i'm facing straight upwards towards the sky. I think that cork 5's are harder than cork 7's, depending on how hard you throw them.... But then again, i think that cork 9's are easier than cork 7's

btw.... i just posted some new vids of some bails I had on cork stuff, if you wanna see some differences between cork 5's and 7's
 
sit on one side of a table and dangle your legs then swing your legs to the other side and keep your ass on the table..thats kind of a simulation that my friend told me to try and it helps
 
thx for your advice everybody and now i would like to know who landed their first cork? if you did not land it, what happenned?
 
c clair que toi si tu land pas tu te ferais pas mal, t fait en caoutchouc....

tu devrais pas avoir de preobleme a les pogner en fds, j'ai hate de revoir le groupe du dimanche
 
when I did my first cork attempt, i went into a flatspin and landed on my face. on the second attempt I did the cork, but my pole basket got caught under my ski so i couldnt come out properly. I landed on my face. on the third try the planets aligned and i landed that bitch.
 
pooponastick, that is nothing like a cork, possibly a flat spin, but sitting on a table and spinning isnt like corking at all
 
my advise would be to throw i normal seven, however, as soon as you initiate your spin drop your left shoulder and the cork will come naturally. Thats how i learned. remember the key is to drop your shoulder, if you just drop your head you won't cork. commit to the spin. Also make sure that you pick the right jump, if you hit up a jump that is too small, it becomes harder to get around. try it on a 25ft table with a nice steep take off and lip.
 
to keep it simple. carve into the jump like said earlier, and spin from that edge. don't pop. just ride the edge off the jump and spin.

or you could just set a spin, and drop down like your gonna do an opp. mute. that will drop your soldier and you will go cork
 
dropping your shoulder is too vague

if you 'drop' your shoulder too much, you get a rodeo, and you don't want that, especially if you live in ny

my trick is instead of dropping my shoulder, i tilt my head -(like a dog looking at something interesting)
 
uh my personal experiance is that i fist worked myself up to 7's. once i could throw good clean 7's then i worried about going cork. Much easier because you then have the spinning memory in your head and wont panick too much. Anyhow after dialing your 7's and want to go cork, first set your roation like a normal 7, once it is set immedialty drop your shoulder and just keep thinking of a 7 and itll come aorund clean.
 
how do you uncork, or will it come naturally? i am wonderin how to pull out of a cork. you all did a great job of saying how to set the rotation but i always seem to worry a bit about the landing part... y'know?
 
^ keep spinning and youll come out of it just keep looking for the landing and when you go to look at the landing youll come out of it.
 
the idea of throwing your hips up sounds unnatural, and further advice on how to get myself to do that? like is it like a thrust or what?
 
I like sims like this, but I don't get it. Are you saying sit on the corner of the table and swing your legs from one side to the other?

10/10 to AKoblitz for the explanations.

We were foam pitting on Saturday and I was trying to figure out a cork 3. No matter how hard I tried, I kept spinning. I was trying to stay open for the 3, but I kept dropping the shoulder which sent me into more like a 7. I'm just thinking about it too much.
 
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