You're missing the point. Triple backflips have been done for years. So has jumping on skis, or 360 heli mogul jumps. The thing is we are a newschool site that do newschool tricks. Just as we don't give a shit when an aerialist does a quad quad.
Yes, a triple back flip is a triple flip. But a "Triple," in the way that it is used on this site, refers to a newschool trick. A trip back is not newschool, not in the same game as a trip cork, and therefore should not be claimed as a "triple." It is irrelevant in a newschool discussion. This is the same reason why a wack flip gets less respect. Rather than using a newschool axis (cork, rodeo, bio, etc) its three backflips, tweaked out.
That being said, that triple back flip was sick. It is not a newschool trick but it is ballsy as fuck and hard to do. Style and axis is what makes our segment of the sport. Don't forget that. No matter what those text in idiots at the x games say about Dumonts double front beating Jon.