Mark McMorris in the midst of his record setting
backside triple cork 1440 in Aspen Snowmass this
week.

Mark McMorris is a Canadian snowboarder that came out of relative obscurity this year and has taken over the slopestyle snowboarding scene. As early as this fall, McMorris was blowing minds at early season TTR competitions in Asia and Europe with his technical riding that included double cork 1260s.

At Winter X Games McMorris was among a select few (including Torstein Horgmo) ushering a changing of the slopestyle guard that left Olympian Shaun White shell-shocked and sulking in seventh place.

Now McMorris is making sure his rise to stardom in 2010-2011 is no fluke by becoming the first snowboarder in history to land a backside triple cork 1440 - or four full spinning rotations with three flips - off a park jump.

Filmed just this week at Aspen Snowmass, McMorris took the accomplishment in stride.

"It was something I've always thought about but I just wanted a good jump to try it, and here was the perfect place and I was able to do it with some support from my friends so I'm really stoked," said McMorris. "It's just a big accomplishment for me and I'm really happy."

It's long been wondered just how many rotations the human being could execute on a snowboard. This maybe the limit but maybe not. If anyone, Mark McMorris will be the one to show us.

Mark McMorris Backside Triple Cork 1440 from TransWorld SNOWboarding on Vimeo.