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Catch the Thrill of Freestyle Winter Sports Have you ever watched a skier land a fifty-foot aerial or a snowboarder spin 360 degrees in mid-air? Perhaps you've tried a trick or two on the slope yourself. If so, you've experienced the thrill of freestyle winter sports. Freestyle skiing and freestyle snowboarding, have moves and maneuvers that are distinct from regular winter sports. They also have a worldwide fan base that's growing steadily. Freestyle Skiing: Aerials and Moguls Traditional downhill skiing competitions typically feature slalom racing. Skiers race against the clock as they weave in and out among gates set strategically along the course. Freestyle skiing maneuvers include aerials and mogul skiing. In an aerial, skiers bound off ramps, or jumps, and soar into the air. In a combination of acrobatics and skiing, freestyle skiers rotate, somersault, twist or perform backflips while in the air. In professional aerial competitions, freestyle skiers propel themselves more than fifty feet into the air and do back flips and twists before landing on the hill below. Aerials are judged on takeoff, form and landing. Aerial competitions include upright aerials, in which the head is kept higher than the feet, and inverted aerials that involve flips and somersaults. In mogul skiing, skiers maneuver around, pass and jump over a series of bumps, or mounds of snow, that are placed close together down the ski run. Moguls can be high and are usually located on very steep slopes, creating a challenge for skiers as they attempt to maintain their speed while clearing each bump. Mogul skiing in competition is usually done on steep slopes between 22 and 32 degrees, with very large moguls and smaller ramps. Judging is based on turning technique, jumps and speed. Freestyle Skiing: New School Emerging around the time that ski resort terrain parks were being created for snowboarders, freestyle skiers were trying a new style of advanced tricks and jumps similar in style to snowboarding. Called new school skiing, the techniques go beyond tricks like aerials and moguls and include events such as the halfpipe, slopestyle and skier-cross. A half pipe looks like half a cross section of a giant pipe. It's usually more than 400 feet long with walls eighteen feet or higher and made of hard, packed snow. Freestyle skiers drop into the half pipe and ride up the walls, using the halfpipe's slope and gravity to launch off the sides of the halfpipe and do tricks. While skiing halfpipe is not yet an Olympic sport, the event has been featured in competitions such as the International Ski Federation's FIS World Cup, Winter X Games and the U.S. Freeskiing Open. Slopestyle skiing is a cross between freestyle skiing and snowboarding. Slopestyle skiers maneuver through a ski course of bumps, rails and jumps. Participants in slopestyle competitions are judged on the difficulty and execution of each trick. Skier-cross brings a competitive race to the slope, with four skiers racing against one another and the stopwatch through turns, moguls and jumps. Events that were part of the 2006 Subaru U.S. Skiercross Series included: North American Skiercross Championships (Kirkwood, CA) Rocky Mountain Skiercross Classic (Steamboat, CO) U.S. Skiercross Nationals (Snowbird, UT). Freestyle Snowboarding F reestyle snowboarding started with tricks borrowed from skateboarding and influenced much of the new school skiing, but it has its own unique style and maneuvers. To execute tricks, freestyle snowboarders turn on their heels or toes, riding their boards frontside or backside. With the exception of any tricks in the halfpipe, you're usually riding on the frontside of the snowboard, using your heels when turning and facing downhill. Facing uphill, you're using the backside on your toes. Many tricks are named for these two types of approaches. Popular tricks include rotations, grabs, riding fakie or switch and the ollie. Rotations are either frontside or backside and are done in multiple of 180 degrees. Grabs are performed in mid-air by grabbing or putting your hand anywhere on the snowboard's edge. The type of grab also depends on the position of the legs in the air. A few common grabs include the frontside, nose and tail and the back hand, toe edge grab, also known as the Indy. Fakie, sometimes called switch, is riding your snowboard in the opposite direction. It's used most often for tricks in the halfpipe, and is essential to any type of freestyle riding. Named for the skateboarder Allan "Ollie" Gelfland, the ollie takes practice but is a key part of most freestyle snowboarding tricks. The ollie helps you get height on jumps, rails and other moves. Shifting your weight to the back of the board while pulling your front foot up and the nose of your board toward the sky, you push your rear foot back to help propel you into the air. You'll also see freestyle snowboarders competing in events similar to freestyle skiing, such as the halfpipe, slopestyle, snowboard cross and boardercross. The best display and variety of freestyle snowboarding takes place at the annual ESPN Winter X Games. Whether you're a spectator or participant, freestyle winter sports will captivate you with their high levels of action and excitement. Grab your skis or snowboard, or slide up to the halfpipe, and catch the thrills this season.

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