How to Do a Cork 7 in Cork7: Every Trick and How It Scores

Pick Big Air on the park map. It is a single kicker built for distance, so every run gives you one big trick and about five seconds of air. Press F to skip the drag lift.

Hold W from the start gate to the lip. Tucking all the way down the inrun took our rider to 187 km/h, which gives you the air time for two full rotations.

At the lip, let go of W and hold D (or A) and S together. That combination is a cork: a spin with a back flip, off axis. Both keys have to go down together at take-off; a spin added after the flip has started only tilts it.

Hold the keys until the trick readout shows 720, then let go so the rotation settles. In our test we held the cork into a tail grab and kept turning: the readout went CORK 540 TAIL, then RODEO 900 and RODEO 1080 as the rider went past upside down a second time. Releasing earlier is what keeps it a cork 7.

Add a grab while you spin: Shift for mute, Q for tail, E for Japan. Hold it a full second for the ×1.25 bonus, then release before the landing.

Land with your skis pointing down the hill. A clean landing adds 450 points plus 15% of the line; a sideways landing keeps at least half; a crash loses it all.

A 720 is two turns: 1,500 × 2² = 6,000 base points. As a cork it is upside down once, so it gets the inverted bonus: × 1.15 = 6,900. Hold one grab for a second and it becomes 6,900 × 1.25 = 8,625, before air time (135 a second and 36 a metre of height) and the clean-landing bonus.

Our Rodeo 1080 with a tail grab on Big Air banked 20,553 points without a clean landing. Its spin alone was 3 turns, or 13,500 base points.

Bigger spins pay much more: a 1080 is worth 2.25 times a 720 and a 1440 four times. That is why the top of the Season 02 leaderboard was above 500,000 points on October 24: long lines of big spins, landed clean and never repeated.

All four are a spin and a flip at once. The flip key decides the direction: S (back) gives a cork, W (front) a bio. Add the up arrow and the feet go over the head: a rodeo with S, a misty with W. A spin with the left or right arrow lies flat and becomes a flatspin.

Two or three off-axis flips in one air read as a double or triple cork, and each extra flip adds another 15%. Ride switch (backwards) and the spin points get × 1.25; on a snowboard the trick name also shows the spin direction, such as FS, BS or Cab.