{"id":2447946,"date":"2019-08-24T19:57:43","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T01:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=311710"},"modified":"2019-08-24T19:57:43","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T01:57:43","slug":"chris-corning-wins-season-opening-world-cup-big-air-with-groundbreaking-1800","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/chris-corning-wins-season-opening-world-cup-big-air-with-groundbreaking-1800\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Corning wins season-opening World Cup big air with groundbreaking 1800"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"921\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/08\/SBWorldCup-SDN-082419-2-1024x921-1024x921.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/08\/SBWorldCup-SDN-082419-2-1024x921.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/08\/SBWorldCup-SDN-082419-2-1024x921-300x270.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/08\/SBWorldCup-SDN-082419-2-1024x921-768x691.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>Chris Corning (center) and Red Gerard (left) of Silverthorne pose for a photo on the podium after taking the top two spots respectively at the first FIS Snowboard World Cup big air event of the season on Saturday morning at the Winter Games New Zealand in Cardrona, New Zealand.<\/strong><br \/><em>Courtesy FIS Snowboard<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Call him Mister 1800 \u2019cause he did it again.<\/p>\n<p>Halfway across the world in Cardrona, New Zealand, Silverthorne\u2019s Chris Corning won the season-opening International Ski &amp; Snowboard Federation Snowboard World Cup event of the season Friday afternoon. The 19-year-old did so by landing his trademark, ground-breaking quad-cork 1800 for only the second time in competition.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chris Corning | Men's Big Air | Cardrona | 1st place | FIS Snowboard\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/508MN4cFqM0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Corning, who now splits his time between Summit and Eagle counties, <a class href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/sports\/on-19th-birthday-silverthornes-chris-corning-lands-1800-to-win-snowboard-world-cup-opener\/\">landed the trick for the first time a year ago<\/a> on his 19th birthday at a World Cup big air event in Cardrona.<\/p>\n<p>The goofy-footer set up the 1800 after first landing a flat-spin, front-side 1440 with a melon grab \u2014 a trick where he rotates toward his board\u2019s front side off the big air jump, rotating for four 360-degree rotations on a flat axis.<\/p>\n<p>After stomping that trick on his first jump, earning a score of 80.75 in the process, Corning set himself up nicely for his final two jumps. Per competition rules, riders use two of their three scores to combine for the final score. And in order for tricks to count, riders must perform one trick rotating to their board\u2019s front side and one trick rotating to their board\u2019s back side.<\/p>\n<p>It all came together for Corning on that second jump, when the two-time defending FIS World Cup Snowboard Park &amp; Pipe season champion got just enough momentum on his inverted rotations to land the back-side quad-cork 1800. Corning is the only snowboarder to land a 1800 of this variety in World Cup competition. The trick requires four inversions on the vertical axis complete with five 360-degree rotations on the horizontal axis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the hard work is paying off,\u201d Corning told reporters in Cardrona. \u201cWe all come here, everybody rode so good, and that means everybody worked hard over the summertime. For us to come here again and win again is super good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Corning\u2019s victory propels him into a familiar position \u2014 first place \u2014 as the World Cup season is officially underway. The next competition is set to be big air at Modena Skipass in Italy on Nov. 2.<\/p>\n<p>For Red Gerard, also of Silverthorne, the runner-up finish was a strong one for the 19-year-old 2018 Olympic slopestyle gold medalist. Considering Gerard\u2019s most recent big air competition was in New Zealand a year ago, his ability to stomp a front-side 1440 with a tail grab on his first run was impressive. The trick netted him a score of 87.00.<\/p>\n<p>Gerard then earned a 74.25 on his third run with a stylish backside triple-cork 1440 to backside shifty. Gerard\u2019s combined score of 161.25 put him behind Corning\u2019s 176.25 and ahead of Finnish rider Kalle Jarvilehto at 160.25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:aolivero@summitdaily.com\">aolivero@summitdaily.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/sports\/chris-corning-wins-season-opening-world-cup-big-air-with-groundbreaking-1800\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Corning (center) and Red Gerard (left) of Silverthorne pose for a photo on the podium after taking the top two spots respectively at the first FIS Snowboard World Cup big air event of the season on Saturday morning at the Winter Games New Zealand in Cardrona, New Zealand.Courtesy FIS Snowboard Call him Mister 1800 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2447946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-20 15:14:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}