Sport Science: What Does It Take To Land A Triple Cork?

exactly what are the physics and

geometry necessary to land a triple cork

in competition to find out what it'll

take to pull off this game-changer we

hit the slopes with winter eps big air

competitor 17 year old sage kotsenburg

before he takes flight we wire him up

head to toe with foot pressure sensors

accelerometers and gyroscopes to collect

unprecedented data all the technology

I've never had on before is pretty cool

I feel like a bionic man an hour before

we wrap our heads around a triple cork

we need to dissect a double cork here's

how it breaks down stage accelerates

down the roughly 20 degree Mountain

hitting a peak velocity of over 51 miles

an hour at the base of the nine foot

tall kicker and as he launches

his torso unwinds unleashing torque that

spins into a peak angular velocity of

592 degrees per second

experiencing up to 4.6 G's an

acceleration and a double win a NASCAR

driver experiences Wow

banking a turn

it's just the first cork reaching a

height of 13 feet traveling more than a

third of a football field

saige execute a backside double 1080 now

to hit a triple cork saige would need to

complete an additional 540 degrees of

rotation on top of the 1080 totaling

1620 degrees of spin this means sage has

to spin faster or fly longer it's safer

to increase air time for the double cork

sage was in the air for 1.8 seconds

if he hits the same angular velocity of

almost 600 degrees per second to add the

third court to the trick sage will need

roughly nine tenths of a second more

flight time the kicker at winter x-15 is

seven feet taller than this one

this means sage begins his trajectory

higher up allowing him to fall about

five tenths of a second longer 31

degrees DeLand again

this year's x-games is actually four

degrees steeper than this landing which

means sage will gain an extra two tenths

of a second before he hits the snow all

of this means sage will need to make up

only another two tenths of a second of

air time to complete the last rotation

our analysis shows that to get the extra

two-tenths of a second in the air sage

would have to increase his speed by

seven miles an hour topping out at

approximately fifty eight miles an hour

with a ramp that's seemingly built for a

triple cork our next question is who is

actually gonna pull it off in

competition for sports science on ESPN

I'm John brains