![]() Off the heels means that Sage took off from the jump with all the pressure on his heelside edge, instead of the more natural toeside pressure. This is MUCH easier, when you have your weight on your toes. Now, in snowboarding, when you spin backside, you turn you back down the mountain in the direction of travel, so that you’re turning your head up the hill to begin the rotation. Then we fell asleep watching ‘Fight Club.’ Getting stoked, you know?”Īpart from taking home the sizeable nugget of Sochi bling, Sage came out all guns blazing at the X Games Aspen, in 2015, landing the first ever backside 1260 off the heels. In his own words, the day before the slopestyle finals, he was “…eating mad snacks. ![]() You might know Sage Kotsenburg as the gold medal toting Olympian that stunned the world with his run at the Sochi Games’ inaugrual snowboard slopestyle event. However, we appreciate that not everyone is quietly creaming themselves over the finer details of snowboarding as much as we are, so we’ve rounded up a lucky 13 of the craziest tricks that went down last season for your viewing pleasure, as hucked by some of the most renowned sideways standing stuntmen on the planet.Ī video posted by Sage Kotsenburg on at 7:57am PST For example, when you look at grabs you begin to notice what the grab is, whether the grab is counter-rotational to the direction of the spin, whether the grab reduces their centre of mass, whether the rider switched up the grab in mid-air, whether the grab was held, whether the grab was poked and we could go on… and that’s just the grab. The deeper into snowboarding you go, the more you begin to appreciate the nuance of tricks. Whilst they’d probably appreciate it if you then started singing the national anthem whilst balancing a stack of plates on your forehead and doing a handstand at the same time that’s probably not what they’re asking. ‘Can you do tricks?’ is the general response you get when you tell people that don’t snowboard, that you snowboard.
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