Skier Goes Massive On Risky Quadruple Flip Attempt

Ian Greenwood
·1 min read

The sight of fresh snow tends to make the average skier act silly, frying our prefrontal cortexes and encouraging poor or, at the very least, questionable decision-making.

This video from Loulou Pianta featuring a quadruple backflip is the perfect powder skiing case study.

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Yesterday, I covered a video from Whistler Blackcomb skier Jérémie Paquette that involved one of the nuttiest tricks—a triple frontflip—I've seen this season. Then and there, I decided it probably wouldn't be topped for months.

But Pianta's quadruple quickly shook up the race for this season's wildest send. Sure, his landing was less clean than Paquette's, but he was attempting a quad, not a triple, so I'm willing to be forgiving on squirrely runouts.

Perhaps the wildest thing about Pianta's flip is the jump he used. It's not some massive manmade backcountry cheese wedge or a manicured park booter—it's a natural wind lip with a little kick to it. If I stumbled across this jump while skiing, I'd assume that you could do a double off of it, but a quadruple? No way.

Somehow, though, Pianta managed to generate an inhuman amount of force to lay out his quadruple flip, transforming himself into a high-speed, airborne centrifuge.

I think one comment below his video summed it up best, "How the **** did you get rotation?"

To that, I'm not sure there's a clear answer. But this much is clear: fresh powder is the ultimate human accelerant.

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