Freestyle Skiing

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Snow Park

AERIALS: Skiers launch off 2-4m kicker ramp that propels them up to six metres into air to perform twists and flips
38° 120m

Kicker
Landing track: Soft snow

Aerialists choose to perform single, double or triple backwards rotation (adding twists for greater difficulty)

TERMINOLOGY*
Back layout: Backflip with body extended straight
Alley-oop: Rotate 180 degrees or more in uphill direction (halfpipe)
Mule kick: Ski tips drop, heels out to side
Grab: Reach and hold part of ski during trick
Sochi aerials gold medallist Anton Kushnir (BLR)
Switch: Skiing backwards. Also fakie
Cork: Spin rotate left or right but also up or down 
Four spin directions: Rightside, leftside, switch rightside and switch leftside
Daffy: Scissor position switch with verticle skis


HALFPIPE
Athletes perform jumps and turns in air as they criss-cross semicircular ramp
18° 180m
Drop-in ramp

Airs: Course allows for 5-8 aerial revolutions
Best score from two runs wins

Five judges grade skier’s performance on height, turn, technique and difficulty. Average score chosen

MOGULS 
Skier must navigate terrain of artificially created bumps
Seven judges score performance on: 50% turning technique, 25% aerials, 25% speed
Two rows of air bumps: Skiers must perform different aerials off two ramps
Course length: 250m
Incline 28°


SLOPESTYLE 
Athletes choose which objects to interact with

Obstacles: Tables, boxes, walls, rails
12° average 500m
Three jump sections Five judges grade skiers on height, turn, technique and difficulty


SKI CROSS 
Course arranged with structures like banks, rollers, spines and jumps
Best times from two preliminary races sees 32 to 36 athletes go through to finals
12° average 1km
Course 
Halfpipe
Course width: 40m (minimum)


Gold medal winners Sochi 2014
Aerials
A. Kushnir (BLR)
A. Tsuper (BLR)

Halfpipe
D. Wise (USA)
M. Bowman (USA)

Moguls
A. Bilodeau (CAN)
J. Dufour-Lapointe (CAN)

Slopestyle
J. Christensen (USA)
D. Howell (CAN)

Ski Cross
J. F. Chapuis (FRA)
M. Thompson (CAN)



Sources: POCOG, FIS, IOC, NBC, The Virtual Friends
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