Snowboarding has its own language, its own dress code, its own swagger and attitude…  Boarders, shredders, whatever you want to call them, they have a tendency to invent their own tricks and the names to go with them.  At the men’s half-pipe competition at the Vancouver Winter Olympic games, Shaun White nailed one of his signature moves, the Double McTwist 1260.

What is the Double McTwist 1260?

The Double McTwist 1260 consists of:

• two board-over-head flips
• within 3 1/2 turns.

Double McTwist 360

So reading just what this trick consists of, one has to wonder just how anyone could ever come up with such a stunt?  On a secluded half pipe in the Colorado Rockies that cost a reported $500,000 to build, Shaun White created the move himself .  Sponsor Red Bull and Oakley are said to have foot the bill for the special project.

Shaun White Crash

The slopes of Buttermilk Mountain were not very forgiving to this years competitors of the 2010 Winter X Games.
In this stunning and graphic video you will see Shaun White’s face meet the ice in a practice run while attempting a double Mctwist 1260 in the superpipe.

View The Video HERE

But despite this skull-jarring mishap, Shaun White received what a Winter X Games doctor called a thorough medical evaluation before he was cleared to head back down the superpipe; not only to complete his practice runs, but to ultimately capture his third X Games Title!  Until Shaun stomped his final run in the Men’s SuperPipe, nobody had ever won back-to-back-to-back golds!
Showing no signs of concussion, White was cleared to compete, and he went out and did the Double McTwist 1260 to win his third straight championship in the biggest halfpipe event this side of the Olympics — with the torch lighting in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, just two weeks away…
It only leaves us guessing:

What will Shaun White bring to the Olympics?

OTHER MISHAPS:

On Thursday, the X Games medical staff did shut things down for Aussie snowboarder Torah Bright after she suffered her second concussion in three days. Bright is also expected to be a medal contender in Vancouver.
Bright is hardly alone. The tight-knit snowboard community has been rocked by injuries during the march to next month’s Games.  Up until Thursday morning’s qualifying round in Aspen, Bright was the only woman practicing the famed “double cork.” The new move, a dizzying blend of off-axis flips and spins, is the buzz of the snowboarding world leading into the Olympics.
While Bright’s concussion Thursday was not the result of a failed double cork, she has taken a few licks trying them. And whether or not she’ll have the nerve to keep it into her Olympic routine is, at least for now, in doubt.