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How do you define doubles? Triples?
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With people talking about who landed the first triple, and there are a lot of arguments about who was doing the first doubles, and this was all stemmed by the first girl to do a double, how do you define dubs and trips in our sport?
I think for it to be counted in freestyle/newschool skiing, it must be off axis. Yes, on a triple backflip, you do go upside down three times, but a triple backflip is nowhere near as hard as a triple rodeo/cork/misty/flat/whatever, so I don't think it should count, because in that case, are we any different from aerials?
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I think you can class them differently too because of the shape of the kickers. All aerial kicked are uniform, whereas kickers in the snowparks are all different....Although I think in the US now all park kicker are made to be really similar to each other, but anyway the kind of kickers that these triples are being thrown on a completely different to aerial jumps.
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dub front is a dub because its to flips, if it had to be off axis it would be called dub off axis, not just dub...
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but do you respect anyone any more because they can dub backflip? I can dub back and I absolutely suck at skiing(comparatively...) So are the first people to do dubs from the nineteen forties?
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dubs have nothing to do with respect, and yes the first people to do dubs were probably in the nineteen forties
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what are they about then? Because doing dubs isn't that much fun than learning to steeze out your tricks, I'm sure it hurts a lot more...
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Since not all "double flips" are equal, people just need to define a trick past the word "dub". For instance, "double cork 12" or "dub flat 9" or "double front". Problem solved.
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This. It's just like the difference in rail tricks, for example, there's double switch ups but doing two blindside switch-ups is harder than a frontside and blindside switch-up. As long as people understand that a double cork 10 is hard than a double backflip than there isn't any problem - a dub is a dub, no matter how you spin it.
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And all doubles are not flips. A cork is not a flip, but it is still doubleable
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A double back/front is not even in the ballpark of a double cork, except of course for the fact that there is 2 flips.
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id say style defines us from aerials
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