Tips on Cork 5's

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.spaghetticat.

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this is my first year of park and i got 5's and 7's down i just need help with cork 5's if anyone could help me it would be great

+k for bumps
 
Thats Quick progression dude... But try just to dip your leading shoulder a little bit, that should set the cork
 
Sorry for triple post... Heres a full description. I hope it will help, id not just ask me here or send a pm :)

How to: Cork Five Blunt

Oct 26, 2010

Author: Matt Margetts

For starters you should be able to carve, do a straight air Tail Grab, land solidly switch, and have your 3s on lock. Find a jump more than three metres long, a halfpipe or a backcountry booter and get down to business.

There are two ways to do this trick: straight, pop, and dip a Cork Five or, like me, you can carve into it like a pimp. I’ll describe the latter: come in hands low and out front, aggressively with your shins pressed hard into the tongues of your boots on the far left of the in-run. Carve right into the transition, then carve left off the far right-hand side of the takeoff.

As you approach the lip press hard into the takeoff with both left edges. Be very patient and allow your tips to come off the end of the jump. Pop hard to your left side, almost touching the takeoff with your left hand, and your left ear to your left shoulder.

At 180 you can already see your landing because you’re so damned corked. As you takeoff leave your right hand low and behind your body. Cross your left ski over your right ski and place that right tail into your right hand that you left behind on the takeoff.

Grab that ski and hold on for dear life until you see the landing at 450. At that point you should let go, uncross your skis, and spot the landing over your right shoulder. Keep your feet shifted back to avoid over-rotation and rack up a bunch of extra style points. Make sure your knees are slightly bent and your body is in a strong and ready position for landing. Stomp and ride away looking over your shoulder, preferably your right— it’s smoother looking over the shoulder opposite to the direction you were spinning.

 
Margetts' trick tip hits it on the spot. You can do cork 5s carved or un-carved, but carving 'em is way easier, more fun, and looks better.

My advice is to get used to carving off jumps. Feels a bit weird at first but you get used to it quick. If you carve ten 540s in a row, you'll start getting the corked feeling because the carve inevitably sets you into a slight cork rotation.

Once you get used to that feeling, what you need to do is just emphasize the cork. Drop your left shoulder and your head - ear on shoulder is best, like Margetts says - as you pop off the lip. The harder you carve, the easier it is, and if you're really getting into the carve you can even drag a hand. The best feeling in the world is being so corked that you spot your landing at 180.
 
My underflips turned into cork 5's... And i know what you mean with spotting your landing at 180... I just under flip but instead of setting the lincoln i just look the spin more
 
lol in your first year dont worry about doing cork 5s dudejust work on getting used to jumping and 3s 5s 7s with grabs and backflips if you arnt scuredthen cork 7s, corks 5s are actually harder
 
dude, cork 5's are one of the easiest tricks to get down. hell, my 5's started turning into cork 5's naturally and now theyre easier than regular 5's. one of the easiest off axis tricks imo.
 
carve into the lip and drop your shoulder and head towards the ground while spinning. if you grab your lead foot it will make it easier to cork.
 
i can also do 5s and 7s pretty well but instead of doing a cork 5 I started trying cork 3s. people say cork 3s are harder than 5s and 7s but ive only tried cork 3s and they seem pretty easy to me now. I just pretend im hitting a wallride.
 
Great tip I was once given by a high north coach was to simply go into the jump, set a 540 like normal, except look back at the bottom of the cheesewedge of the jump. If you spot that backside bottom of the jump it seems to trick your body into dropping that shoulder and setting your axis correct.

Same other stuff applies too which you've read here. This is just a great focus point to help get your cork.
 
i have 3's on lock and can get some 5sI am thinking about prgressing alot this weekendin order i was thinking back flip, front flip, cork 5good idea?+ k
 
i think cork 5s are pretty hard cork 3s are even harder and im talking about legitly doing doing them good and off a decent jump not a fucking sketchy cork 5 attempt off a 5 foot jump
 
jd this is not your first year riding park and i'll teach you corks this weekend if you want. cork 7s are easier though. i will promise that.
 
old post but theres some really helpful info in here for me. the season is porgressing and im sure there are a few others out there who are ready to go cork 5
 
im not quite at cork. almost. this is my first season too and ive got flats, fronts, some rail tricks now and ive tried but am yet to stomp both side lincolns so i dont feel im ready for corks. gonna get my lincolns down than ill know i can do it and cork 3/5/7
 
I don't know where to find it, but Turpin explains how to cork 7 somewhere on this site and it's roughly the same thing. This is for those of you who (like me) don't understand the whole carving thing. To be fair, I've never corked on snow. But I was trying to learn on the trampoline forever and could never get it; I read Turpin's description, went out on the trampoline and stomped cork sev the first try.
Basically, head off the jump the way you normally would, set your 5 the way you normally would, but as you unwind to spin, attempt to grab leading safety. You don't actually have to grab, I don't, but reach for your leading foot. So if you're spinning left, bring your left hand down to your left foot, and if you're spinning right, vice versa. This will automatically drop your leading shoulder a pretty mellow amount, so you'll end up cork. Not an insane amount, but just enough that you know you're going cork. Be prepared for this. If you do it correctly, you'll end up landing a cork 5 without understanding what you did. Do it a couple more times and you'll get a feel for the rotation, and then you don't have to use the crutch of reaching for your foot. You can just drop your shoulder the right amount instead. I find this method to be awesomely effective, and come April (a.k.a. the only time that the jumps at Stratton thaw, and the only time that you can go forward instead of straight up off a Stratton kicker), I'm going to be testing these out.
By the way, you should be able to carve into the spin and use this same method, if that works for you. I'm picturing it in my head and it makes total sense.
Hope this helps!
 
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