Usually not a groomed run, maybe backcountry or moguls. SHREDDING THE GNAR: Skiing gnarly (difficult) terrain. STOMPING: Landing your whole run "clean." Making it through without mistakes. Not good, can be painful.ĪPEXING: Reaching the highest point of your jump. Joss also went over some other slopestyle slang:ĬATCHING EDGE: Landing sideways. Your legs go directly over your head.īUTTER PAD and CANNON RAIL: Christensen and I didn't specifically talk about these terms, but they are two features of a slopestyle course. A "cork 5" would be a 540-degree move a "cork 7" is a 720-degree move.įLIP: An "on-axis" flip. There are lots of different types of grabs.ĭOUBLE JAPAN: A grab with one hand behind your foot, one hand in front on the same ski.ĬORK: An "off-axis" flip. JAPAN: A type of grab (when a skier grabs his skis while in the air). Here are a few definitions, courtesy of Christensen, that should help all of that make a little more sense: And then I'm going left double cork 12, double Japan, to switch right, double cork 10 safety, to switch left, double cork ten tail." And then on the third rail feature, there's like a jump to a butter pad to a cannon rail.* So I'm doing 180 up, then switch on to the cannon rail to a corked 450 out. And then 270 on, pretzel 270 out of the down rail. And then switch on front 450 out of the next. "Switch right lipped 270, pretzel 270 out of the top rail. Here's how Christensen described his run, which he says was about a half-minute long: The hardest part to understand can be when a slopestyle athlete talks about his or her run down the course. He helped us break down the sport's slang. slopestyle skier Joss Christensen a day before he won gold in men's ski slopestyle on Thursday. He used words in a post-win news conference from Sochi that Al-Jazeera said left Russians in "a linguistic labyrinth." Olympic gold medal winner Sage Kotsenburg of Utah probably provided the best display for slopestyle's unique vocabulary. Before it's all over, we wanted to try to break down, at least a little bit, one of the most confusing aspects of slopestyle - its terminology. Today brings Sochi's last slopestyle event: men's ski slopestyle. It can be performed on skis or on a snowboard. Slopestyle is sort of like a big skate park in the snow, a downhill course with rails and jumps. When superstar snowboarder Shaun White dropped out of the slopestyle event at the last minute, it only drew more attention to the sport. It might get covered by the likes of Sports Illustrated, but it's also in Entertainment Weekly. Slopestyle, one of four new events at this year's Olympics, is already a bona fide hit. won gold in the men's ski slopestyle final Thursday at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia.
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