Impressive stuff from 16-year-old Katie Ormerod - one of Great Britain's up-and-coming young riders!
Photo courtesy of Redbull
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RedBull wrote:
WORLD'S FIRST: BOOM! First-ever female dub ten… stomped!
Yes, you read that right: Katie Ormerod, a 16-year-old girl from Yorkshire, England, has just made snowboard history...
First off, what is a double cork 1080, and why is it a big deal?
Katie Ormerod mid flight during the first ever women's double cork 1080 in snowboarding history
Katie Ormerod
A 'cork' describes a jump where the rider rotates through the air on two different axes – the horizontal axis (spin) and vertical axis (flip) – in the same motion as a corkscrew. So a double cork 1080 describes two full flips and one full spin, which equals 3 x 360 = 1,080 degrees.
And it's a HUGE deal because...
...until recently, double corks were only done by the top male riders in the world. In fact, they're so hard, requiring so much strength to initiate and control the rotation, that just a few years ago many people doubted women would ever be able to perform them.