Bobby Brown lands the first freeskiing triple-cork 1440
America’s Bobby Brown has made a freeskiing history yet once again. The 19-year-old Skullcandy Ski Team athlete landed the first triple-cork 1440 during a training session at a private Red Bull Park in Squaw Valley, USA, on Saturday, 16 April.
Fortunately for the fans of action sports, the Poor Boyz Productions was present on the location to capture the monumental feat on camera. The video has been uploaded and shared on numerous sites already. The video clearly shows Brown revolving four times
while soaring in the air before making a clean landing. The video, though just a teaser, confirms that the triple-cork 1440 is not just a myth anymore. Poor Boyz Productions will be releasing rest of the footage in the fall of 2011.
While talking to a journalist of a leading sports television network, Brown said, “I'm stoked. This is something I've wanted to do all year. It's also a huge motivator to keep going hard this season.”
If he plans on using this as a motivation to go even harder than usual, then one can only wonder what he will unleash as the season progresses.
This is not the first time for Brown to send the action sports community, especially the freeskiing community, in a state of awe. Last year in spring, he landed freeskiing’s first triple cork 1260, while filming with Matchstick Productions at Alyeska in
Alaska.
Even though the triple-cork 1260 was later picked up by a fair number of skiers, the glory of stomping the first one would always remain with Brown. The same holds true for the first triple-cork 1440. He will forever hold the boasting rights for leading
everyone on the path to the new epic trick.
Prior to Brown’s triple-cork, the Red Bull park at Squaw Valley had made it into the news a week ago for its involvement in another triple-cork 1440. The park had acted as a host to Canada’s snowboarder Sebastien Toutant’s triple-cork 1440. The feat made
Toutant the third person to successfully pull the trick off. Norway’s 24-year-old Torstein Horgmo and Canada’s 17-year-old Mark McMorris are the two riders, who had the trick under their belt before Toutant.
It seems that the park is doing a pretty good job and making a substantial contribution towards the progression of the winter action sports.
According to a Red Bull spokesperson who spoke on condition of anonymity, the main purpose of the Red Bull facility at Squaw is to help in athlete performance development.
Talking to a popular freeskiing magazine, Brown revealed that he himself was not 100 percent sure whether he would be attempting the triple-cork 1440 this weekend. He said that, “[The trick] was something I had been thinking about for a while, but I did
it as spur of the moment thing.”
Brown has once again made a valuable contribution to the progression of the sport. He has almost made it a habit of occasionally taking freeskiing from an existing level to a higher level. Indeed the man deserves to be called a freeskiing legend.
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