Moguls & Aerials Update: US FIS Freestyle Teams & Calendar for 22/23 Last but not least in our series of FIS World Cup updates for the 22/23 season are the disciplines of aerials and moguls. The announcement by US Ski & Snowboard was made on Thursday, October 20th, for the team selection of what are probably the most technical and acrobatic Freestyle events. Aerials is an event where the skier heads in […] Industry News Julia Schneemann | October 21, 2022 0 Comments
Freeski Update: FIS Freestyle Season 22/23 Kicks Off This Week With Big Air in Switzerland While eyes of the alpine community are turned to Sölden, Austria, this weekend, just a couple of mountain ranges to the west, in Chur, Switzerland, the Freestylers are kicking off their season with a Big Air event on Friday. The Freestyle category under FIS, the International Ski Federation, consists of six very unique disciplines: Ski/Boarder-Cross Moguls (Duals and Singles) Big Air […] Industry News Julia Schneemann | October 19, 2022 2 Comments
Top 11 U.S. Big Mountain Ski Resorts: Opinion From a Freestyle Skier Lists are inherently wrong no matter how you look at them. There will almost always be something to argue about. So why make them at all? Well…I love a good debate. There are no set factors that I decided to rate each resort on. The majority of this list are resorts that I have had experience skiing and I ranked […] Ryan Flynn | July 15, 2022 30 Comments
Top 13 U.S. Park Resorts: Opinion From A Freestyle Skier The flip side to big mountain skiing is park. They are almost like the yin and yang of freestyle skiing. Both must exist in perfect balance for the sport as a whole to progress. I am a big mountain skier by passion, but park skiing has recently become a bigger aspect of my skiing. It is a great place to learn […] Ryan Flynn | July 5, 2022 5 Comments
[VIDEO] This is What Happens When You Attach Flares to the World’s Best Freestyle Skiers and Riders in a breathtaking display of skill and color, a collection of the world’s best freestyle snowboarders and skiers strapped colored smoke to their skis and boards at @The Nines to create a kaleidoscope on the mountain 🌈 🗻 Related: [VIDEO] Audi Nines 2022 – The Ultimate Wrap-Up SnowBrains | May 2, 2022 0 Comments
[OLYMPICS] The Art of Freestyle Mogul Skiing Freestyle mogul skiing combines fast-paced mogul skiing with technical aerobatic jumps, including flips and spins. The course features over 650-feet (200-meters) of moguls, with two jumps, one at the top one 40 bumps from the end. The event is judged based on how fast the course is completed, precision, and technique through the moguls and additional points for tricks pulled at […] Olympics Aunika Skogen | February 11, 2022 0 Comments
[OLYMPICS] Gold For Team USA in Freestyle Skiing Mixed Team Aerials https://twitter.com/ajoneida/status/1492018936027750414 Team USA took gold yesterday at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics in the first-ever freestyle skiing mixed team aerials event. Favorites China took silver. Related: [OLYMPICS] 4th in the Medal Table, Here’s Team USA’s Full Medal Count So Far China led after the first of three rounds, but last year’s world championship individual silver medallist Chris Lillis put down […] Olympics SnowBrains | February 11, 2022 0 Comments
[VIDEO] Insane Trick | Freestyle Skier Maintains Grab Through 1440 and Landing, Lands on One Ski https://twitter.com/NBCOlympics/status/1490595186958811137 Finnish freestyle skier Simo Peltola pulled off an awesome trick during the men’s freestyle skiing big air qualifiers at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics on Monday—and still failed to qualify for Wednesday’s final. Peltola, 21, completed four rotations in the air while grabbing one ski. Then, instead of releasing his ski on landing, he maintained the grab, landing on one […] Olympics SnowBrains | February 8, 2022 0 Comments