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For winter sports, the term superpipe is used to describe a halfpipe built of snow which has walls 22 ft (6.7 m) high from the flat bottom on both sides. Other features of a superpipe are that the width of the pipe is greater than the height of the walls, and the walls extend to near vertical.
The tallest snow superpipe in the world (as of 2021) is located near Laax, Switzerland. [8] With a height of 6.90 m (22.6 ft), this halfpipe has held the world record since the 2014–2015 season, and regularly hosts the LAAX Open. The current world record for highest jump in a half-pipe is held by freestyle skier Joffrey Pollet-Villard. [9]
Superpipe skiing is an alternate form of half-pipe skiing that utilizes a superpipe (large halfpipe used in extreme sports), instead of a half-pipe. It has been a part of the Winter X Games since 2002. [12] The 2012 Winter X Games champion was David Wise [13] with a high score of 93.00. [14]
TransWorld Snowboarding honored Seven Springs as the East Coast's top terrain parks and North America's number four halfpipe. The superpipe was also expanded in 2011–2012 to an Olympic-sized pipe with 22-foot high walls. A new beginner snowboarding area complete with a conveyor was also opened near the base of Stowe Slope.
Sarah Jean Burke [1] (September 3, 1982 – January 19, 2012) was a Canadian freestyle skier who was a pioneer of the superpipe event. [2] [3] She was a five-time Winter X Games gold medallist, and won the world championship in the halfpipe in 2005.
Needing to rock his final Olympic halfpipe run just to qualify, Aaron Blunck proceeded to pump up the volume. “If someone wants to mess with me on a competition day, they'd take away my music ...
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Kelly Clark (born July 26, 1983) is an American snowboarder who won halfpipe gold at the 2002 Winter Olympics.Clark was born in Newport, Rhode Island.She started snowboarding when she was 7 years old, began competing in 1999, and became a member of the US Snowboard team in 2000.