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The Science Behind a Triple Cork

You know when you sit down at a big group meal, and you’re involuntarily placed next to someone who works in finance? And they rabbit on and on about numbers, and their real-world uses, and you know you should really be paying attention, but instead you’re trying to roll a piece of doughy bread into a perfect ball?

Well now, thanks to this video – you can be that finance guy (or the snowboarding equivalent at least)!

In one short video – here’s a concise summary of many of the reasons people rejoiced when a triple cork didn’t win the Olympics…

In a presentation about the technical elements behind a triple cork – X Games presents all the ammunition you’ll ever need to truly bore your compatriots; handily packaged into a format that snowboard nerds (ourselves regrettably included) will probably find slightly interesting, but that also simultaneously removes any joy from the simple soulful motion of flying through the air on a plank of wood.

In two and a half minutes that fuels the fires behind articles like ‘Don’t Call it Boarding’, here, ladies and gentlemen, is a concise summary of many of the reasons people rejoiced when a triple cork didn’t win the Olympics. They might be big, and they might be clever, but there’s so much more to watch…

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