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I think the term Misty 720 is pretty dumb sounding. Originally, I learned that a misty (in the old Nintento 64 game 1080 Snowboarding) was a directly-over-the-nose frontflip with a 180 at the end of it. This is not directly over the nose, it’s not really a frontflip, and if you add up the inverted rotation and the 360 at the end, you get 720.

Not that I’m saying those smart folks at Nintendo were wrong back in 1998, I just don’t want to keep using the same terminology.

To be 100% accurate, this is a frontside off-axis 720 off the toes. …on a snowboard.

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