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Tricks and terms origins

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Stasia
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Fellow ski bums--I need your help. I need to find the origins of skiing terms and trick names. If you know of a trick that was named by that one guy or how we got words like steez, that kind of stuff.

Your info will help me graduate college, so it would be rad of you to help a chick out. Thanks!
May 3 2014 2:22PM
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HORK
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well to start off, blind 2 is called that because it was invented by a blind man

frontflip is called a frontflip because you are flipping frontwards, backflip because you are flipping backwards

Not sure how a 360 got it's name
May 3 2014 6:46PM
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Stasia
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So glad this thread is going to be helpful.
May 3 2014 7:19PM
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MLJ
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steeze=style+ease
May 4 2014 6:03AM
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j-cal
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Help dis girl out. She legit mayne. Dat mind be needed some food jah feel? She needs to get that scrilla.
May 4 2014 3:03PM
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Alvaro
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i would really like to know the origin of the "screaming seaman"
May 5 2014 11:54AM
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Molasses
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some of the names (eg. corks and bios) were taken from snowboarding, and off axis flips like mistys were already around in trampolining/parkour
No idea where they got them from
May 7 2014 6:32PM
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Holte
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The vast majority have been taken from skateboarding and snowboarding, but there are a few that have freeskiing naming history.

Wilson flip (dub cork/underflip 10) - Mike Wilson did one at 2005 US Open.
D-Spin - Named for inventor Mike Douglas
The term "cab" was used interchangeably with "switch" a decade ago (and the purists will argue it's more accurate) which is named for skater Steve Caballero.
I recall Jon Olsson naming some dub cork variety an Olsson flip, but that's gone into obscurity like the Wilson flip.
May 8 2014 2:20AM
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MLJ
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HolteThe vast majority have been taken from skateboarding and snowboarding, but there are a few that have freeskiing naming history.

Wilson flip (dub cork/underflip 10) - Mike Wilson did one at 2005 US Open.
D-Spin - Named for inventor Mike Douglas
The term "cab" was used interchangeably with "switch" a decade ago (and the purists will argue it's more accurate) which is named for skater Steve Caballero.
I recall Jon Olsson naming some dub cork variety an Olsson flip, but that's gone into obscurity like the Wilson flip.


Whiskey flip? I think its a dub misty 10 but Im not sure
May 8 2014 3:00PM
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HORK
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No shit. I was being sarcastic
May 10 2014 12:50PM
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Michael_Thatcher
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a double flatspin 900 is called a Kangaroo flip named after Jon Olsson
May 10 2014 11:02PM
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