Reactions – Max Van Helvoort Double Cork
Yesterday Max Van Helvoort dropped the newest trick wakeboarding has seen, mute double cork 1080. For those who don’t understand that is two full flips, a backside 1080 and a mute grab. If you are going to claim to be the first to do a trick this is how you want to do it. Social media blew up with everyone reposting and amping on Max landing it so we collected some of the best reactions and have them here.
“Much respect man, stoked to see you pushing it and making our sport look sick as shit!!!” -JD Webb
“Yeah Max! It’s about time we started using trick names that are synonymous with the movements of the trick akin to snowboarding. Nice one.” -Darin Shapiro
“So stoked for my roommate! Maxim van Helvoort going ham!!” – Cory Teunissen
“My dude Maxim van Helvoort just stomped the world’s first double cork on a wakeboard! So damn stoked for this guy!” -Guenther Oka
“Max Van Maxim van Helvoort owning it on this Manuever…Anyone who know me knows I’ve got a major soft spot for double flips. This one takes the cake!” -Jeff Mckee
“So pumped on Maxim van Helvoort stomping this and making progression happen!” -Oli Derome
“The sickest double on a wakeboard period…” -Keenan Allen
“Maxim van Helvoort with the kill” -Jacob Valdez
“Wow, this is the craziest thing I’ve ever seen Maxim van Helvoort changing the game” -Joe Battleday
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Technically it is not 2 full flips and a backside 1080. In snowboard terms you include inversions in the number of rotations it is a double cork backside 1080 he gets inverted twice while spinning. For example, a roll to revert would count as a frontside cork 540 in snowboarding, but in wake it is counted as a backroll plus a frontside 180. In wakeboard terms Max's trick is 2 backrolls and a wrapped backside 360 spin. I am not taking anything away from Max at all, it is an amazing trick and I'm amped he did it (legit grab too!). Also not the first wakeboarding "double cork 10" Parks can claim that one with his double mobe off the double up (a frontside double 10 in snowboard speak) and any double half cab roll is technically a double cork front 9 in snowboard speak. Boardsport nerdism rant over, glad people are charging it.
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Everyone is now dumber for listening to this…
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I think it would have been balanced to include reactions from wakeboardings wider community and not just the pro elite, like they're the only ones whose opinions matter.
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Benjamin Hoppe did one as crazy 3 years ago, no one lift a finger. When he did this, people said wakeboarding was going "the wrong direction". Sad to see how now that all the wakeboarders are "cathing up" on the double flips, all of a sudden it's progression.. Wake up guys
https://vimeo.com/62443359 at 5:41 🙂-
Not sure if you noticed 1, the height of the cable, straight up and 2 the massive pre spin off the kicker. he did a full 90 if not 180 before ehe even left the kicker and he never grabbed a single thing. There is a way to progress properly and then there is the breddas, the laughing stock of the entire wake industry. Go back to gymnastics.
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It really is just sad how you're calling three talented people "the laughing stock". They were and are having fun, they're fucking killing it and always have been. People weren't as hard on the so called "zeaching" back then so of course Benjamin didn't care about the slight prespin. If you've ever seen the guy ride, you'd know better than to call his talent (and riding for that matter) something to laugh at.
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What Max did is amazing and possibly the best cable kicker trick I've ever seen. Calling the Breddas a "laughing stock" is one of the dumbest things I've ever read, and that's saying a lot.
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Breddas are not the laughing stock of wakeboarding by any means. They pushed our sport to the next level of what is possible. If you went and took a set with any of the 3 today, you would realize that their riding is legit and absolutely insane.
Oh and Max is a freak too 🙂 this was insane buddy!
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It was a 180, into 2 flips, into a 180. No double corking. Chad is not entirely on "point", as with snowboarding there are still flips, however they are also able to bank, duck, or "cork" a spin over a shoulder making it a flip like motion but while still overall spinning. In wakeboarding this would require a handle pass of some variation, wrapped and ole' ing would be the closest to snowboarding, pre-passed would be next, and then good old passing the handle. It is a double KGB, whether he can do a triple rodeo on snow or not.
