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Tylenol Canadian Freeskiing Championships
Mountain Sports International (MSI) and Whistler /Blackcomb
are gearing up to hold the 7th Annual Tylenol Canadian Freeskiing
Championships. The event is the first stop of the Freeskiing World
Tour, summoning 120 of the best freeskiing athletes from 11 states
and provinces and 8 countries to compete for $10,000 (CDN) in cash
awards.
Registration for the Canadian Freeskiing Qualifier is Jan 6, with
the event being held on the 7 & 8. The Championships will commence
on January 9 &10 with a weather day available on the 11th. Competitors
will be judged on increasingly difficult areas of the mountain with
eliminations after every run.
Last year’s champions
Manu Gaidet of Courchevel, France and Jenn Ashton of Whistler, BC
will be defending their titles against former champions and local
favorites. All competition venues at the Canadian event are accessible
to spectators of all skiing ability levels. Daily results and event
coverage will be available online at freeskiingworldtour.
The series explained
The Championships are the first stop on the International Free Skiers
Association (IFSA) World Tour. The second stop is the Subaru US
Freeskiing Championships February 2-6 in Snowbird, Utah, USA. The
final event, The North Face Freeride will be held in Les Arcs, France
March 1-5. IFSA was founded in 1996 as the competitor organization
of freeskiing events including Big Mountain, Slopestyle, Skiercross,
Big Air and Pipe competition.
Unlike ski racing, where a gated course is set up for the competitor,
big mountain freeskiing allows a competitor to utilize all natural
terrain features between the start house and a finish area. Competitor’s
runs may include skiing off of cliffs, down steep, expert terrain
at speeds of up to 45 miles per hour. Freeskiing is a judged competition
that requires 5 judges to evaluate the competitor on 5 categories:
Line Choice, Control, Fluidity, Technique, and Aggression. There
are 10 possible points in each category; an averaged total of 50
points possible per run.
[Source: Skipress]
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