Six and a half rotations.
That is what number of occasions you have to spin round in midair to land a 2340, which is what a snowboarder and skier simply did for the primary identified time in historical past, on the X Video games in Aspen, Colo.
First it was 19-year-old Hiroto Ogiwara of Japan, who pulled off the transfer throughout the Pacifico Males’s Snowboarding Huge Air occasion on Friday.
In a video of the run, Ogiwara plummets down the snow-covered hill and begins to spin simply as he reaches the highest of the ramp, persevering with to circle as he sails by the air. After he lands, he throws up his palms in celebration as the group cheers.
“I’m the primary on the earth to do this. I’ve by no means been as blissful as this,” Ogiwara mentioned after finishing the trick, according to Olympics.com. “It was actually the best second. It felt as if I used each ounce of vitality I had.”
Then, skier Miro Tabanelli turned the primary particular person to land a 2340 in a ski competitors. The 20-year-old Italian achieved the record-setting move throughout the Pacifico Males’s Ski Huge Air competitors on Saturday.
Each Ogiwara and Tabanelli gained gold of their respective occasions.
In 2022, Ogiwara performed a backside 2160 — six full rotations — at age 16.