Olympic and World Champion Chunlong Lu opens his voluntary routine with a full-in, half-out triffis pike. He does it beautifully, too. The big question is: Is he the first to perform it in international competition? In 1980, American Stuart Ransom started his final routine with a front, full-within, half-out pike/puck in the World Trampoline Championships in Brig, Switzerland. Does that count?
If anyone has any video from the 1980 World Trampoline Championships or any other video of athletes performing this skill, please share.
Thank you, AcrobaticSports.com, for the great photo of Chunlong Lu.
It’s not only the 1.5 twisting triple….it’s the remaining 9 skills that made the routine amazingly outstanding….
I hear that!!!
An answer posted on Facebook:
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David Curtis wrote on Facebook: Dave Pittaway and myself did triffus into crash mat in 1975 front in half within full out we did half out fliffus and added a full out easy thinking.
I saw that. Quite amazing! Believe it or not, I’ve seen a quad twisting triple, and that was in the 80s! I hope there’s some video out there. It was done by French World Champ, Lionel Pioline. His full-full-full was consistent. He added another twist on the third for the quad.