White said he’s using the footage of the Japanese riders from Switzerland and comparing it to his old triple cork videos. But White also landed triple cork after triple cork into an air bag in 2013, when, admittedly intimidated, he couldn’t bring himself to try it on snow again after earlier crashes. White landed about 20 “really good” triple corks not on snow, but into an air bag at a subsequent one-week camp in Austria, Thomas said. White, in an interview after Saas-Fee, said he arrived there planning to work on the triple cork even before the Japanese started stomping them. MORE: Chloe Kim sets the tone for her snowboarding sequel Thomas said that White’s response was, “Something along the lines of, I knew it was coming. White wasn’t there that day, but Thomas filmed it and texted it to him. He saw 2018 Olympic silver medalist Ayumu Hirano land the first triple cork. In a two-week span, Japan’s top four riders all landed clean triple corks, Thomas said. head coach and White’s personal coach since 2015. “The sport changed in the blink of an eye,” said J.J. It was time for everybody to show their cards, to put out the tricks they’ll have in their bags for the Olympic season. Riders from the U.S., Japan and Australia don’t convene often outside of competition.
Grand Prix at Copper Mountain, Colorado (live on NBC Sports). It was an all-star camp ahead of a season that starts in earnest at this week’s U.S. The world’s best snowboarders gathered in the Swiss Alps resort in October. “Knowing how much we’ve worked on this and how much time and punishment that he’s put in and taken on it,” his then-coach Bud Keene said in 2013, “it’s pretty hard to imagine even almost anybody actually trying this thing.”Īnother eight years went by without the triple cork becoming part of the halfpipe contest vernacular. White shelved the trick in 2013 without ever landing it clean.
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He said he almost cracked his pelvis on his second bid. His first practice attempt put him in the hospital. So I just sit and wait, and then somebody will hit it first, and then I can tell how fast I need to go.”īack then, White was coming off trying and failing to learn a triple cork (three diagonal flips), a move so difficult and dangerous that no halfpipe snowboarder had ever done it in competition. “I’ll tell you my secret,” White shared between takes in a clip that made his film “Russia Calling.” “I try to watch someone else jump first, because I don’t want to be the first.
Jude Children’s Research Hospital in 2013 is now very relevant as he bids for a fifth Olympics and a fourth snowboarding gold medal. Something that Shaun White confided to five kids while shooting a commercial at the St.
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