![]() ![]() These scores do not generally carry over to the next round.Īerialists train for their jumping maneuvers during the summer months by skiing on specially constructed water ramps and landing in a large swimming pool. Skiers are judged on a cumulative score of LIMA two jumps. A degree of difficulty (DOD) is then factored in for a total score. ![]() The top male aerialists can currently perform triple back flips with up to four or five twists.Īerial skiing is a judged sport, and competitors receive a score based on jump takeoff (20%), jump form (50%) and landing (30%). Once in the air, aerialists perform multiple flips and twists before landing on a 34 to 39-degree inclined landing hill about 30 meters in length. Some of these competitors, such as Wayne Wong, Floyd Wilkie, and George Askevold, stayed at Waterville Valley as coaches of the first Freestyle Ski Team.Īerialists ski off 2-4 meter jumps, that propel them up to 6 meters in the air (which can be up to 20 meters above the landing height, given the landing slope). In 1971, Waterville Valley Hosted the first Professional Freestyle Skiing Competition, which attracted freestyle skiing legends to Waterville Valley. The following year, Corcoran and Doug Pfeiffer, organized the first National Open Championships of Freestyle Skiing on the Sunnyside trails. In 1969, Waterville Valley Ski Area in New Hampshire, formed the first freestyle instruction program, making the resort the birthplace of freestyle skiing. Early US competitions were held in the mid-1960s. ![]() Aerial skiing was popularized in the 1950s by Olympic gold medalist Stein Eriksen. Ski acrobatics have been practiced since the 1930s. Known as "hot-dogging" in the early 1970s, it is also commonly referred to as freeskiing, jibbing, as well as many other names, around the world. It can consist of a skier performing aerial flips and spins and can include skiers sliding rails and boxes on their skis.
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