Snowboarding
Watch: Marcus Kleveland Just Landed a Quad Cork
The Norwegian prodigy just became the youngest member of snowboarding’s most elite club.
Marcus Kleveland
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If you think that freestyle snowboarding has gone into progression overdrive lately, you’d be right. Tricks that just a few years ago would have seemed impossible are becoming standard. And riders like 16-year-old Marcus Klevelandare at the forefront of technical progression.
In Marcus’ case, "child prodigy" is no exaggeration: His career trajectory is pretty similar to the steep jump he just made history on. At 9 years of age, he was blowing up YouTube with smooth 720s. At 12, he’d progressed to Cab double corks. At 13, he became one of the first riders to stomp a triple cork.
Fast forward to today: the Stubai Zoo Prime Park Sessions, a preseason gathering on Austria’s Stubai Glacier, with classic blue skies and a next-level set-up featuring an XXL Pro Line shaped to perfection. According to witnesses at the scene, Marcus had been stomping triples with ease all week, and by now was feeling ready to escalate things.
At 9 a.m., on his third run of the morning, Marcus landed (with only a slight hand drag) a backside quad cork 1800° — making him, after Billy Morganand Max Parrot last spring, the third (and youngest) member of the Quad Club.
Watch: Markus Kleveland stomps a quad cork
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Marcus Kleveland Quad Cork 1800
The Norwegian prodigy just became the youngest member of snowboarding’s most elite club…
