“I’ve had the trick on my mind for a long time, over a yea now,” she admits. “I went to sit down for an hour before I started riding again.” Her secret? It was all about waiting for the right moment and seizing it with both hands when it came. “My heart was still racing and I had so much adrenaline,” she says. It’s maybe more dangerous than just going for it.” It was a trick so daring, so nerve-wracking, and so exhilarating, that it took Gasser an hour away from the slopes to come to terms with what she had just done and for the rush to subside. “As soon as I took off I knew there was no way back because when you initiate it you cannot open up anymore. “I had more physical power than I’ve experienced compared to another trick … There’s so much more physics to jump up and spin that fast,” says Gasser. Visit CNN.com/TheMoment for more stories and videos Now she was about to take the sport into another new realm. Gasser had made history before when she became the first female snowboarder to perform a cab double cork 900 – two back somersaults and a horizontal spin, giving the effect of a corkscrew – in November 2013. Once airborne, the feeling was like nothing she had experienced on a snowboard before. She sped up the steep ramp and launched into the Austrian sky. A triple requires far more force and power than your average jump complete commitment to the cause is key, because abandoning the trick midair can be treacherous. Gasser knew a big take off would be essential. Other than that, I was just full-on focusing on what I wanted to do.” “There was not much going through my mind actually, I was just trying to trust myself and telling myself that I could do it. “I had some butterflies in my stomach for sure before I dropped in,” said Gasser, who won gold in the big air contest at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics in 2018. READ: ‘Spiritual’ end to 157-day swim around Great Britain Her stomach churned, but she hopped forward on her snowboard and started speeding towards the giant snow ramp sculpted by machines. Staring down the run in, Gasser tried to flood her body with confidence. “For sure it was one of the craziest tricks I’ve ever done,” the 27-year-old Austrian told CNN Sport. Pulling it off would require confidence, commitment, and a whole lot of bottle.
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Specifically, she was thinking a cab triple 1260, a trick that involves taking off in the switch position – the opposite direction of travel with your “wrong” foot forward – before completing three-and-a-half full rotations and landing with your other foot in front. Quiet in her helmet and dark goggles, Gasser contemplated her leap into the unknown. Now, high on Austria’s Stubai Glacier, snowboarder Anna Gasser gazed down at the huge white ramp that could propel her into history. All rotation tricks in snowboarding are put into degrees, so you may continue doing a frontside rotation, for example, spinning in a full circle for 360 degrees or even 720 degrees and so on.She had pictured the trick plenty of times in her mind’s eye and even tried it once onto an airbag but no woman had ever pulled it off on snow. Whilst a backside is rotating clockwise, so your toes lead and switch your leading leg. A frontside is where you are rotating so your heels lead and rotate in an anti-clockwise motion. Pretty cool right? Frontside/Backside 180-360Īnother one of the basics of tricks in snowboarding is being able to rotate, whether that be on snow or high in the air. A nollie is shifting your weight to your front leg, jumping by leading with the back leg and then bringing your front leg up to join. Then with a bit of effort, bring your back leg up too, so your feet are parallel and the board is horizontal off the ground. Shift your weight to your back leg, and in one swift motion, using a bit of momentum, jump by lifting up your front leg. An ollie is one of the foundational tricks that should be mastered.
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