How to teach cork

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How should I teach my little brother cork on a trampoline?

He keeps doing misty/rodeo. Ive told him to throw over his shoulder but its not working.

Any suggestions?

+ k on good ideas
 
other shoulder, think more of spin than flip, right ear to right should for right side spin, left ear to left shoulder for lefty spin
 
not sure who it was but some body on ns said this once... and i thought it was rely helpful

he said to act like theres a midget standing right behind your back, and your trying to punch him. so throw your arm like back behind urself and done across your back (punch the midgetttt)
 
i have a few ways...

punch the midget works, as said above.

if he can do backflips, start him doing a straight backie, then make it a back 180, when he gets comfortable spinning a 180 with a backflip he should be able to make it a 360 backflip. Once you do that you're basically there. He will know the feeling and it's just a matter of messing around with it until you're doing cork 7 not back full.

The other way is to start doing 7s and just keep trying to dip your shoulder more and more. at first they will just be weird looking 7s, but eventually he'll start to feel where in the spin you need to dip your shoulder and it will get more and more corked.

I learned cork 7s when i was very very young just by kind of hurling myself backwards and spinning. Most of the time i just landed on my back/stomach/head, but it never hurt. After about a day of doing that I bounced a little higher and just tucked my body more. I didn't land but i felt myself coming around and that's all it took, I had it stomped within a few tries.

I would stick with the other ways I described, but when all else fails honestly just start throwing yourself backwards in different ways until it feels right, then go for it.
 
Whichever way he spins, have him wind up as hard as he can throw like a normal spin but as soon as he takes off have him grab lead critical. Eventually after a couple of those he'll know how to throw it.

If this doesn't work you may blow your load in my face.
 
get on a tramp:
a. do a 180 to bounceb. do a misty 5c. put them together and do a all in one bounce 180 to misty but land on your back on the mistyd. bounce higher finish out the rotation and you have cork 7
skiing just carve and replicate that motion but adjust it so it works on skis too
 
i do my cork 7s like this but ive always seen corks more as you head looking up and over your shoulder and not under. is there a difference?
 
start off by getting a nice bounce,,then as you set the spin look at the opposite heal of which you are spinning.. like if you spin right look at your left heal or spin left look at right heal..and then once your in the air at about cork 3 or 5 you bring your knees to your chest and you will land. thats how i learnd them hope this helps
 
What helped me a lot was when I stopped focusing on the getting off axis/flip part and when I focused on the spinning.

I would always do a misty too when I was learning and actually learnt it on accident when I was just doing a regular 720.

 
the way i learned it very fast: if he is able to spin normally a 5 or 7, just tell him to spin and while jumping off to look down on the tramp over the shoulder he spins. pretty easy like that.
 
do a 7 but drop your lead shoulder as hard as you can as soon as you start spinning

or

jump really high and lay yourself out so your feet are pointing straight ahead and turn your head to spot the landing. as soon as you spot, pull yourself into the spin as hard as possible
 
i don't have a tramp, so i rarely use them. but for some reason I can cork 7, but can't backflip. It's mostly commitment, but it's weird.
 
so i have backs down, and back 180s.
so are you just setting back and then punching a midget?i guess what im asking is is it more back and less rotation. or thinking about more rotation then back?
 
nope, you're looking over your shoulder and spinningdont think backflips, they really have nothing to do with corks.

180 to bio

or 180 to misty, whatever you want to think of it as.
 
I would tell him to think like he's going over a jump on skis, start the spin but instead of looking directly over your shoulder look to where your left heel piece would be (if your spinning to the left) this helped me a ton. Also to get over the fear of initiating the cork tell him to do some 3's but land on his back, this should help make if more comfortable with the trick.....hope that helps
 
not exactly. you can tell by the way you landed that you were flipping forwards a little. its super close though, just take off as if youre doing a normal 7 then start to cork it out in the air. someone else said they lernt by doing a 180 to misty which is pretty much what you want to be doing.
 
when you say 3 and land on your back, where on the trampoline do u land? to you land exactly where you wouldve land had u just dropped on your back or do you land at about 90 degrees angle from where you would if youd done a backdrop?
 
For me i just land like you would a normal backdrop, if you u just get a minimal amount of bounce and set it like i said before but expect to land on your back it should help you overcome the fear, or at least it did for me
 
maybe im seeing this totally wrong...but this is my take on that.

What I think you just did was a bio 7. As you can see right at the takeoff (or around 0:02), you tucked your left shoulder FORWARD, causing you to rotate forward. A cork 7 requires you to drop your right shoulder like you did, but to then take your left shoulder and throw it BACK and around.

Hopefully this made some sense and will help you a little.
 
yeah i can see what your talking about, i was doing the punch a midget but ducking my head down. so do you have any tips on setting cork not misty/bio ?is it like punch a midget and drop your shoulder back or what?

thanks for all the help guys,+k for all.
 
180 then misty is a d-spin 720, which is a mogul trick still cool but you invert so it isn't a cork

as you can see similar but not a cork

 
If your spinning to the left take right hand and point to a cloud or something behind and to the right and then take your right hand and throw it down immediately. That makes no sense at all but it's kinda hard to explain. It'd be much easier in person.
 
This thread has been crazy helpful! I read it then went out and stomped the next cork 540 I tried. Thanks for the advice everyone!
 
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