Who was the first person to throw a double cork?

its not Jon for sure. i remember an episode of JOV where he was trying to learn 'em because he felt he was getting behind in the doubles game.
 
9315954:scratchskier321 said:
Mike Clarke and Jacob Wester. It's funny how people forget how good Clarke used to be.
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THIS. I had to google it, it's been so long (NS thread!). While Wilson was doing some stuff like that I am pretty sure Clarke was the first one to throw a proper, wobbly double (that wasn't aerials flippy). Was it not at that Japan competition? I remember it being a bid deal at the time. And then AJ and I have one on camera of him at Keystone trying them in the Green hoodie for a Jiberish edit which wasn't long after. I remember now looking at the edit again he had to try a few in a row to get one.

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14586322:BK said:
THIS. I had to google it, it's been so long (NS thread!). While Wilson was doing some stuff like that I am pretty sure Clarke was the first one to throw a proper, wobbly double (that wasn't aerials flippy). Was it not at that Japan competition? I remember it being a bid deal at the time. And then AJ and I have one on camera of him at Keystone trying them in the Green hoodie for a Jiberish edit which wasn't long after. I remember now looking at the edit again he had to try a few in a row to get one.

**This post was edited on Jan 31st 2024 at 12:36:46pm
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yes i do remember it being some overseas contest
 
I don't think they count. They weren't throwing them as corks, but more aerial style. Or.maybe they were? Guess it's time to dust off the old vhs.

9315088:californiagrown said:
or it could be the schrab bros way back in the day...
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14586322:BK said:
THIS. I had to google it, it's been so long (NS thread!). While Wilson was doing some stuff like that I am pretty sure Clarke was the first one to throw a proper, wobbly double (that wasn't aerials flippy). Was it not at that Japan competition? I remember it being a bid deal at the time. And then AJ and I have one on camera of him at Keystone trying them in the Green hoodie for a Jiberish edit which wasn't long after. I remember now looking at the edit again he had to try a few in a row to get one.

**This post was edited on Jan 31st 2024 at 12:36:46pm
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bro responded to a 13 year old thread, then OP responded right back! that's awesome haha.

im always fascinated by these names who i've never heard of (granted im not especially learned in newschool ski history), i always wonder where they are now and why they seemingly all stopped skiiing ?
 
14586545:SteezyYeeter said:
bro responded to a 13 year old thread, then OP responded right back! that's awesome haha.

im always fascinated by these names who i've never heard of (granted im not especially learned in newschool ski history), i always wonder where they are now and why they seemingly all stopped skiiing ?
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jacob wester is still skiing, puts out some really cool youtube videos. Mike Clarke is a producer/video guy, he makes commercials for UA/samsung and shit like that. its dope
 
9316244:Kjell said:
Here is an excerpt from Jacob Westers blog where he describes the deal in from his point of view:

"Understandably, this got boring after a while. In Vail, Colorado, at the US Open big air competition in 2006, 37 out of 40 runs in the qualifying round were switch 1080s. Something had to happen, and I’m going to blame and thank

Mike Wilson for taking the first step towards a new age of big air

competitions. After landing two Wilson flips, or better described as “underflip to switch rodeo 540“,

he didn’t make it into finals because the judges didn’t know what to

make of it, but he left a few questions hanging in the air. Was this the

way forward? Can we make this cool? Is this aerials?

Watching Wilson doing his thing while all of us were stuck in a rut

of just spinning like tops, Jon Olsson and I said to each other – this is what we have to do.

I remember Jon ranting about how this was the future and we better get

on it now before everyone else. The rest is history. Jon went off to

Australia to invent the Kangaroo Flip on the water ramps, I worked on

double backflips in Åre (on the jump Jon built to learn Kangaroo on

snow, all props to him for pioneering, yes, he should get the credit for

doing the first “new school doubles”), and at the Jon Olsson

Invitational in 2006, on the first perfect big air jump to try double

corks/flats on, we unleashed the new tricks to the rest of the world,

Jon stomping Kangaroos and I figuring out double cork 1080s and 1260s. All of a sudden these tricks were accepted by the judges, and we had something new and fun to play with."
http://www.freeride.se/jacobwester/2010/11/23/thoughts-on-style-and-its-royal-family/

I think this sorta clarifies that Wilson did double flips first but Jacob did the first true "double cork"?
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I'm so glad Kjell shared the relevant part of the blog on the forum thirteen years ago because like so much of freeskiing's historical documentation from back then the website is no longer active.
 
Just because it hasn't entered this thread yet, the risky flip is worth mentioning...
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this 22yr old NS thread has good ol [tag=1476]@AndrewWoods[/tag] saying no way is it 'newschool', probably the same season he ended up winning the us open with an ungrabbed 1260!!https://www.newschoolers.com/forum/thread/1727/Risky-Flip

then this one has [tag=8582]@mattwalker[/tag] claiming it is new school...https://www.newschoolers.com/forum/thread/12690/Risky-Flip

I always liked mike wilson's dub 10s in tbc. and mike clarke in the nippon event. then jon and jacob really pushed the dubs. but this og one was pretty close too!
 
14587003:snomaster said:
Just because it hasn't entered this thread yet, the risky flip is worth mentioning...
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this 22yr old NS thread has good ol [tag=1476]@AndrewWoods[/tag] saying no way is it 'newschool', probably the same season he ended up winning the us open with an ungrabbed 1260!!https://www.newschoolers.com/forum/thread/1727/Risky-Flip

then this one has [tag=8582]@mattwalker[/tag] claiming it is new school...https://www.newschoolers.com/forum/thread/12690/Risky-Flip

I always liked mike wilson's dub 10s in tbc. and mike clarke in the nippon event. then jon and jacob really pushed the dubs. but this og one was pretty close too!
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agreed with every point. rick's risky flip is basically identical to modern dub 10s

mike wilson's double was more like 5 to 5 whereas modern dub 10s are usually 7 to 3 but def counts as well. keep in mind that at this time people still called dubs in general "circus shit" and it wasn't catching on quite yet

then jon and jacob did the ""first"" modern ones shortly after the kang flip was popularized by jon

and i don't think mike clarke had one of the very first, he might have but certainly back then the big deal is he had the first one that people really thought looked good and comfortable and was showing where skiing was going. cause he did it with a dope tail/blunt and it looked as good as anyone's, say, cork 9

mike clarke's nippon dub 12:https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_....eu/&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE&feature=emb_title

jon had one or two other firsts too i think, mightve had the first dub 12, and nearly sure he had the first switch dub 12
 
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