![]() Riders and skiers who score low are routinely hacked off. How is Slopestyle Judged?Īs with any judged sport, the process of judging slopestyle in the Olympics has come in for some criticism. There are also older skiing events that predate the twin tip revolution, like moguls and aerials. The other freestyle skiing and snowboarding events that feature at the Winter Olympics are moguls, Big Air, halfpipe and ski cross/boardercross. Hall would later try to take on Jamaican citizenship in a bid to compete at the Olympics. The first X Games slopestyle contest was run in 2002 and was won by the legendary American skier and weed enthusiast Tanner Hall. The terrain parks of the era increasingly began to include rails alongside jumps and halfpipes, and the idea was to create a contest format that reflected how most ordinary freestyle snowboarders actually rode the mountain.Īs twin-tip skis (first released by Salomon in 1997) made it possible for skiers to land backwards, they too started competing in slopestyle events. Slopestyle was developed as a snowboarding competition format in the late 90s and early 2000s at the Burton Open Series and other events that formed part of the Ticket To Ride (TTR) world tour (now known as the World Snowboard League) as well as the X Games. The UK’s Jamie Nicholls hits the slopestyle course at the Sochi 2014 Olympics.
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