Canadian pro rider Mark McMorris landed a new trick. During an early morning jump session in the public terrain park at Aspen Snowmass, Colorado, 17-year old McMorris landed the first-ever backside triple cork 1440.

Mark and a crew that included Gjermund Braaten, Tyler Flanagan, and Mark’s brother Craig McMorris, are all in Snowmass shooting for the first in a new resort-based multimedia series called the TransWorld Park Sessions.

By 8 a.m. Gjermund Braaten and Mark were trading tricks and feeding off each other’s energy, with each of them learning some new moves. At about 8:30 a.m., Mark threw the first of three attempts at the back triple 14. On the third go he stomped and rode away clean. After a few phone calls and a few tweets of his own to spread the word, McMorris had this to say about the trick,

“I’m still in shock that I actually did it—I don’t even know why I did, I was just feeling the jump. I don’t think triples are really the way snowboarding is going but I just wanted to try it. I’m excited to see people’s reactions to the video.”

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