Recently, professional skier Kuura Koivisto has established himself as one to watch, populating the airwaves with ski tricks that, upon first viewing, don’t make much sense due to their complexity.
His latest contribution to freestyle skiing notches the absurdity levels ever higher, featuring a mind-boggling combination of spins, twists, and flips.
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Every year, I run the temperature of freestyle thinking and think to myself, “Welp. That’s it. Everything that can be done on skis has been done. There’s no way someone can top this.”
Then, someone like Koivisto comes along and makes me eat those thoughts.
Sure, the limits have probably been reached numbers-wise — I doubt anyone will throw a quintuple cork on skis any time soon — but Koivisto proves that there’s ample ground to be gained at the intersection of creativity and technicality. Now, to innovate, you truly need to look at freestyle skiing from a different angle.
And Koivsito has the eye, throwing trick combinations that meld multiple maneuvers into one complex dance move, proving that he, alongside the rest of his generation, has ample ground to gain in freestyle skiing.
As for the trick he launched in this video, I’ll need to get back to you on possible names. “Switch 360 to switch overflip” doesn’t have a great ring to it.
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