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Cuban grab?

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Mr.Bishop
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The splash page today claims a cuban grab... I have yet to hear of this until today.

Though.... I like it. Good name, and the body positioning in the photo definitely does it for me. I would personally just call this a tail grab, but I'm curious to hear what you guys think makes it specifically deserve a new name... or if you've all heard of it and I'm just out of the loop.

I'm tempted to say I back it.

Jun 28 2012 12:10AM
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jksl
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yuppp, everyone should probably watch his segment...or the entire movie.
Jun 29 2012 2:05PM
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casual
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The terms lead and opp are relative to the direction of the spin.

There's no such thing as an "opp blunt" or "lead mute" in a straight air. However, you can do a cuban or a stale in a straight air. That's a good way to look at it.

Cuban is reaching past blunt/tail to the other ski's tail, and similarly, a stale is like reaching beyond toxic (yes, toxic is inside edge same hand same ski, but the relative hand position for a stale is the same, except on the outside edge of the opposite ski) basically the exact opposite of a tindy.
Jun 29 2012 2:53PM
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Mordecai
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love that edit! and the cuban downey throws is at 1:36 if i remember correctly.

not to be random, but does any one else miss just plain jiberish shirts with the jcrown in the middle and nothing else? like the one brogan was wearing? i kinda wish they made one design that was simpler besides the lohi, all the other stuff's got too much going on
Jun 29 2012 4:41PM
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skibum_mark
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ive been calling that a ja-tail as in a japan tail.
Jun 29 2012 11:21PM
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seanahue.
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on a somewhat related note, what THE FUCK is the japan-ish grab walker busted out @ :50 in his stept edit? mute-japan? seatbelt? crail? i swear that shit came from a yoga pose but i can't remember what its called


Jun 30 2012 3:42AM
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danbrown
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no
Jun 30 2012 1:28PM
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CrotchKiller
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just an excuse to post it again

Jiberish Welcomes Clayton Vila and Sean Jordan from Jiberish on Vimeo.

Jun 30 2012 1:36PM
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dweezileast
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I've been calling it an optimo for a few years now, has more or less the same meaning- optimo is a brand of blunt, and it works since you're grabbing the opposite tail.
Jun 30 2012 3:50PM
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StyleWithEase
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Swaaag!
Jun 30 2012 5:24PM
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scientist
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^ boom.

Cuban and stale have their place in the grab world. not ousting any existing grabs er nuthin.
Jul 1 2012 11:49AM
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The_Beekeeper
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holy shit. Someone find out what that is
Jul 1 2012 1:31PM
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gabeski
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Only other person I have seen do it was Chris Turpin, once. If anyone can find the edit I would love hem watched him do that trick over and over. That was the first day Walker had done it though, casual chairlift convo and then next few runs it was on.
Jul 1 2012 1:39PM
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ReignMan
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I wish this thread would have been about us taking over cuba... but the grab just is pretty khuel
Jul 1 2012 3:59PM
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seanahue.
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for snowboarders though, isn't seatbelt when they grab nose crosshanded with their back-hand? i kinda think it would make a little more sense to call it crail, since he's reaching and crossing his hand back across his body towards his tails... he doesn't get the true-tail though, which is also why i hesitate to call it crail since i thought for knuckledraggers crail was a crosshanded tail...?
Jul 1 2012 5:21PM
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Gharf
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damn those grab are so fucking ill. i fucking love skiing.
Jul 2 2012 9:06AM
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Newschool_Pope
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sick grab! why not call it opp japan.

or if were at communist country grabs, lets call it the
north korea grab.
Jul 10 2012 7:34PM
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dom_daq
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Session 2, 2011: Skiing from Windells on Vimeo.



So what do we call the grab at :54?
http://vimeo.com/25641843
Jul 10 2012 9:46PM
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The_Beekeeper
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I'm gonna say lead or opp cuban
Jul 10 2012 10:10PM
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Toaster-Tony
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I had to pause the video to see what you were talking about. As soon as I did, I immediately started ejaculating everywhere, uncontrollably.
Jul 10 2012 10:22PM
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The_Beekeeper
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I don't know why, but I laughed so fucking hard. Welcome to my sig
Jul 12 2012 11:54AM
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