haaa, ya'll got tricked hard. I think he's just yankin your chain.
That was so absurd... can't believe how perfectly he executed/landed it. Slightly different than how he seems to typically toss em but not any less sick.
Looks more like a 360 flip IMO. Why? 1) He pulls it up backwards / his bike starts in the motion of a backflip. 2) If you pause it halfway during his trick, he is totally up-side-down. 3) He lands it like a flair. Especially point 2, he's hanging totally up-side-down.
And it also make more sense that he did cork 720 and 360 flip in one run, than just two 720s ( since he can do both). From that perspective is his run even more crazy.
I totally see what you mean...but whatever it is, its rad... and maybe technically you could be correct, but watching (which I'm sure you have) people on skis or boards or really anything, a stylie cork 7 is pretty much inverted and also pulled somewhat backwards.
We all knew he could do a cork 7 off the whale tail. That he could do it that clean in a comp after a tuck no hander into the feature maybe not. Everyone knew he could do a back flip off the drop. That he could do a one foot backflip off the drop? Not so much. Everyone was doing 3's off the cabin but Seminuk did a foot push on his. Now maybe I don't watch enough slopestyle but I was blown away by Rogatkin pulling a flip double whip on the step up. Then when Brandon showed his pure domination by doing the same I became a true believer. The only thing left for Seminuk to do in freeriding is match Zink's feat by winning Rampage this year. If his film is anything to go by he has had plenty of time on the big bike this year so it's definitely doable.
He got the winning way last year at Rampage, no doubt on it, just a shame he could'nt link it all together... This dude is a legend, he writting MTB history since 2008 Rampage, 17 years old winner... Semenuk is for MTB what God is for Believers... !
I don't think he needs to win rampage to still be classed as one of the best of all time. Rampage is a different style of riding and I don't think he quite dominates the freeride world like he does in slopestyle. The Joyride is truly deserved- he's a class act... and I'd love to see him win rampage too... but even if he doesn't he'll always be one of my all time riders. It's not just his tricks, his bike control is out of this world.
We don't say he need to, we said he will be a legend into the legend if he match Strait and win two rampage, like domination on any terrain. And if you look at is Freeride abilities, he's for me, totally one of the top freerider ever... (just look at his lane last year and the step down transfer, just sur real...).
Backflips, x-ups and tailwhips are difficult but it's getting boring... Yanick's frontflip step-up and Godziek's backflip cliffhanger and double seatgrab were just sticking out of this "probability". ...Rogatkin was amazing too...just didn't know what to expect every time he was setting off
The game has changed. In the 3 years I've been paying attention to top level slopestyle the level of tricks has gone up exponentially. Here's to progression.
Hah, look, I can watch the "entirety" of the event in this one short video. Last time I open Pinkbike page while watching and event replay. This is also why I unliked your page on FB (if I am not going to following you, no reason to LIke it IMO0
That was so absurd... can't believe how perfectly he executed/landed it. Slightly different than how he seems to typically toss em but not any less sick.
Especially point 2, he's hanging totally up-side-down.
But i would have loved to see Rheeder stomp his second run to see Semenuk improve this insane run.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vd_OuqUAaI
Talk about "sticking your landing"