The 1080 Move - Can you handle the 1080 Power Snowboarding Move?

The 1080 move is a snowboarding trick that simply involves three turns in the air. Well, it's not that simple. The 1080 is a challenging move and it has never been attempted in competition by any woman so far in its short history of competitive activeness. The 1080 was perfected by Ross Powers and Danny Kass and first debuted at the Olympic qualifiers for 2002. At the 2002 Olympics, Powers and Kass won the gold and silver medals, respectively. The only woman who may be able to pull off the 1080 is Hannah Teter who has said that she is contemplating pulling the move off.

Without this snowboarding power move and landing it perfectly, there is no chance of making it onto the podium as a snowboarding competitor in the men's competitions. However, now that the 1080 move is in just about all men's competition routines, they have added onto the move to make variations. Such variations of the move include:

• Back to back 1080's
• Reverse 1080's
• 1080 grabs

In order to perform a successful 1080 move, a snowboarder needs to have major air and a fast body and board rotation. The body position can vary between vertical and horizontal. The most common body position is horizontal and is sometimes nicknamed the corkscrew, for the similarity between the rider performing the 1080 and a corkscrew. This move requires tremendous strength and has been known to disorientate boarders who perform them.

This power move did not exist a few years back and the 900 was all the craze. Now that the 1080 has been in rotation for a few years, someone may be raising the bar by mastering 3 1/2 or even 4 rotations in the air, which will become the new power move. However, to the date, the 1080 move is the atomic bomb of snowboarding moves. At present there is nothing more powerful or valuable in competition than the 1080 move to get oneself to the podium.

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