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Mogul skiing is a freestyle skiing competition consisting of one timed run of free skiing on a steep, heavily moguled course, stressing technical turns, aerial maneuvers and speed. [1] Internationally, the sport is contested at the FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships , and at the Winter Olympic Games .
Cole McDonald (born March 6, 2003) is an American freestyle skier.He joined the US Ski & Snowboard's U.S. Freestyle Ski Team (Development Team) in July 2021. [1] In the same season as his first World Cup, he earned a spot on the U.S. Men's Moguls Team at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, making him the youngest American male mogul skier to participate in the Olympics at 18 years of age. [2]
Freestyle skiing is a skiing discipline comprising aerials, moguls, cross, half-pipe, slopestyle and big air 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.
Jean-Luc Brassard (born August 24, 1972) is a Canadian freestyle skier who won the gold medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics.Brassard has been credited with popularizing the wearing of bright knee pads to show off absorption and leg position for mogul skiers to best show judges how smoothly the athlete is taking the turns.
A ski coach can analyze the underlying abilities of expert skiers by watching them do a snowplow. [9] Proficient skiers may apply the technique with a narrower angle between the skis as a "wedge turn". [10] In ski mountaineering, the snowplough is recognized as an important way to come to a complete stop on steep slopes. [11]
I started ski school before I started actual school, and for years, I was much better in the classroom than on the slopes. Now, as a (much more athletic) adult skier with years of experience, ...
Peter Johnson (born August 20, 1956 in Truckee, California) is a former World Mogul Skiing Champion, United States Technical Delegate for the International Ski Federation (FIS) and founder of the Pro Mogul Tour (World Pro Mogul Tour). His skiing career spans the early days of hot dog skiing, where in the early 1970s, the sport began as a free ...
The freestyle mogul competition is one of the most physically stressful in the Olympics. Just watching piston-legged Olympians racing down a bump-laden hill causes sympathetic pain in the knees.