The tricks that are commonplace in a given slopestyle contest have shifted greatly in the past 365 days. Only a year ago, spectators lined the bottom of the slope course at X Games Aspen wondering if the triplecork would make an appearance in the event at all, and the complete transition of this multi-axis trick from big air one-hitter to one in a succession in slope marked a new level of progression in men’s competition snowboarding. Flash forward twelve months and the triple cork is ubiquitous in high level events and in today’s men’s slopestyle finals at X Games Aspen 2014, the winner wasn’t walking onto the podium without one.
There is no arguing that the amount talent in the field of competitors at the top of the SPT-built X Games slopestyle course was monumental … Pictures and more