Freestyle skiing is a skiing discipline comprising aerials, moguls, cross, half-pipe and slopestyle as part of the winter olympics. It can consist of a skier performing aerial flips and spins, and can include skiers sliding rails and boxes on their skis. It is also commonly referred to as freeskiing, jibbing, as well as many other names around the world.
Rules
- Competitors go one at a time using short skis and poles
- Head and chest should face the finish line at all times while their hips and legs turn
- Skiers wear colored knee patches to help the judges score
- Time, Turns, Style and Air determine the winner
- The setup of the course has some specific rules as well.
- An Olympic moguls course is usually about 250 meters or almost the length of three football fields
- Skiers are traveling 15 to 20 feet per second
- The moguls course is separated by 2 jumps or kickers that are roughly 2-feet high
- Competitors perform tricks to accumulate more points.
- Seven judges decide the winner…two judges watch the height of the air that’s 25 percent of the score … the other five judges evaluate the turns that’s half of the total score…there is also points given for speed
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