How To Land Your First Cork on Skis

For today's video, we're going to be going over some tips that you can use to land your first cork on skis. I've got a comment from one of my subs here, so we're just going to read this quick. Could you maybe do an explanation video on how to get corked on skis, but not on trampoline. I mean on snow. Love your videos. Thank you. I appreciate the comment. And basically he's just asking for some tips for doing a cork on snow. So that's what we're going to go over in today's video. Now the first thing we're going to go over is a couple of the prerequisites you need to learn before you learn to cork. In this video, I'm going to be talking about cork sevens. I think they're the easiest cork to learn. Cork threes I think take a little bit more time and are a little bit more technical and a little bit more difficult. So in today's video, I'm going to go over specifically cork sevens. So before you do a cork seven, you actually want to learn two different tricks. And the first one's going to be a backflip. And the second one's going to be a 720. The reason why is because if you do a backflip, you're going to know how to go off axis and you're going to know what that feels like. And you want to learn a 720 because you don't want to have to learn the 720 and the cork at the same time. And basically we're going to take the upright 720 and we're going to turn that into a cork. So first we're just going to watch this POV video of me doing an upright 720. So this is what a proper upright seven looks like. It's not super complicated. You wind up on the takeoff right here at 360. You're going to spot in front of you to make sure that you don't go off axis. And then we're going to come around here at 720. This and learning a backflip is going to be the first step that you take towards learning a cork. Now, how do we take an upright 720, like that video I just showed you and turn it into something like this, turn it into a cork seven. So there's going to be two specific cues that I need you to remember, and it's going to help you get off axis. And it's also going to help you get into that specific cork axis. Now the first one is going to be right off the takeoff here. You're still going to wind up here like we do on the 720. So that's important to note kind of like how I did on this one. We're still winding up, but the important differences on this one, you're going to visualize when you're coming off the takeoff that you're going to push your hips up to the sky. This is super important to get into the cork seven axis specifically, really visualizing your hips and your chest coming up to the sky first. That's going to be the first cue. And the second cue is going to be a little bit later, right? Right. Once you get your hips up, the next thing you're going to do is you're just going to dip your shoulder down a little bit. And this is just so you get off axis instead of like an upright, 720, how you're just rotating sideways. Like on this one, instead of rotating to the side here, we're just going to bring the shoulder and we're just going to dip it down just like this kind of towards the jump. And this is actually going to get you corked and this is going to get you off axis. So the first thing we're going to do is bring the hips up. And the second thing we're going to do is going to dip our shoulder down and that's going to get you off axis. And at this point, you're going to start rotating. You're going to be off axis. So right here at 450, this is when you're going to reach for the grab. The grab isn't the most important thing, but it is pretty important for you to stay in the cork seven axis. If you just kind of pencil spin it, it's going to be hard to uncork it. So it's actually more important for the landing than anything. And it doesn't matter if you actually grab your ski. It's just, if you're reaching for the grab, you kind of get in this more aerodynamic kind of tight ball here, instead of being penciled out. And this just helps you bring the trick around and actually land it, which is what I'm going to show you next. And then you're going to come around here, let go of the grab and prepare for your landing here. So landing your first cork seven is actually super simple. And with using these tips, I landed it. I think my second or my third try, as long as you have a good upright 720, a good backflip, all you have to do is make these couple adjustments. Remember hips up, dip that shoulder down and come in for the grab as well. And it's probably going to be way easier than you actually think. And you can come out of this and land your cork for the first time. So those are going to be my tips for landing your first cork seven on skis. And if you want help with any of the tricks done in this video, your 720s, cork sevens, backflips, whatever it is, I can help you with that in the top link in the description. Peace.