Catch Me If You Can: Kingsbury adds new trick to arsenal ahead of moguls season
Good luck to anyone trying to catch Mikael Kingsbury on the moguls course this season.
He’s put in hundreds of runs this summer perfecting the cork 1440, a partial back flip with quadruple twist, as he prepares to defend his crown as the leader atop the World Cup moguls and overall freestyle skiing standings. He’s the only skier in the world who has landed the trick on a moguls course and he plans on using it as a sort of weapon of last resort in his already considerable arsenal of tricks.
“It’s nice to have it in my back pocket,” said Kingsbury on Thursday. “I know that if I do it I’ll be the only one. We’ll see. It depends on the circumstances. If at some point I know I need it to beat someone’s run I know I have it ready.
“My percentage of landings with that jump are incredible.”