Why It's Almost Impossible to Do a Quintuple Cork in Tricking | WIRED

Tricking is a sport with roots in martial arts and elements of tumbling and breakdancing mixed in. The quadruple cork is tricking's ultimate feat: an off-axis backflip combined with four rotations in the air on a separate axis. WIRED's Robbie Gonzalez spoke with some of the best trickers in the world to find out how they do it, what makes it so hard, and whether anyone will ever manage to pull off a quint.

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Why It's Almost Impossible to Do a Quintuple Cork in Tricking | WIRED

[thaliacalearete]

Me ten minutes ago: What is tricking.
Me now: Hm yes, Anderson is really going to need more angular torsion on his moment of inertia to pull off a quint.

[jujimufu]

Props to Robbie and Wired for great research and storytelling about tricking! It's pretty rare for a media outlet to cover tricking well and y'all did it!

[essencekymatic]

I'm a tricker since 13 years ago, and the level of professionalism and knowledge of this video; the pros specifically picked... everything is so well done (and by a mainstream channel) that is hard to believe. Thank so much for approaching the culture and communicating the culture so well. Honestly thank you very much. That was amazingly good.

[ShogunSRT]

This video: *exists*
Shosei: *This is absolute comedy*

[JacobWolfman]

That was THE BEST mainstream coverage of tricking EVER. I am so impressed Wired. Great job.

[Gma.parkour]

Impressed at how well tricking is represented in this video, and how they really get across how difficult even a quad cork is.

[MagyarGaben]

Meanwhile 500 years into the future in space:
"Why The Infinity Cork is the Bare Minimum in Tricking? | WIRED"

[perseus]

Tip: Use this when confronted by Jedi.

[ConnorCost]

I’m so glad tricking made it to this channel

[avonleakerr]

Shosei is giggling right now, "Haha i'm landing quint next week out of snatchcannon."

[ryankang]

I discovered tricking around 2011-12 ish. I think that’s when tricking was just popping off because I remember parkour/martial arts being my fav physical activity to do back then, and I stumbled upon tricking videos with Anis Cheurfa, Travis Wong, basically the OG legendary trickers. I was so in awe that I wanted to learn and try it out. Lord and behold, tricking became my new favorite sport. New trickers are lucky because there are SO many tricking tutorials out there now, which is great tbh. Lol So it’s great tricking is getting more recognition. Even in today’s video games and movies/shows.

[lucamaximus]

I saw a guy fall down an escalator and he did like 16 corkscrews

[vinigretzky]

why do i always expect some peculiar physical reasoning behind these videos when the answer is always: Because it's pretty hard.

[Alive_and_well]

Wired: "Quint is almost impossible"
Trick community: "Quint is almost impossible"
Shosei 7 months later: "Hold my beer"

[ebujzii]

They should do a vid on shosei, he’s 14 and has landed so many tricks people would never believe

[CIMiclette]

My knees and ankles hurt just watching this.

[blondtoxic]

Well now because of shosei you have to make a new one called:

Why its impossible to do a sextuple cork in tricking

[twinkiedinkskating]

I had no clue what tricking was until this, but now I am suddenly obsessed with tricking.

[johzuke]

Backflips really are a joke, but still when people see trickers doing way cooler and more difficult stuff they always be like: "Can you do a backflip?".

[gosu]

I remember when no one could even double cork.
Double seemed hard, Triple seemed impossible, no one even thought about Quads.
A Phenomenon in Tricking i watched over the years was, if someone broke through the Barrier and done a new "impossible" Trick, all other followed rapidly.
Today the new Generation kids Combo the Double Cork like it is nothing.
Tricking changed over the Years got more complex and different, but is beautiful as always.