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Grass Skiing

Grass skiing is a FIS ski discipline on prepared grass slopes using grass skis rather than snow skis. Slalom, giant slalom and other course formats are raced through gates, line, time and controlled turning technique.

LevelVariant FamilyWinter Sport CategoryOutdoor sport

AI-generated illustration: Grass Skiing — AI-generated illustration

Classification

Category Outdoor sport

Family Winter Sport

Level Variant

Getting started

Kurzbeschreibung Ski racing on grass skis and a prepared grass slope with gates and timed scoring.

Geeignet für Suitable for people who like alpine race technique in summer, specialist equipment and unusual courses.

Cost Club/federation and rental grass skis first; normal snow skis are not suitable. Grass skis, boots/bindings, helmet, protectors, training slope, course setting, club fees and travel. Grass-ski club, summer training from a ski club or national ski federation. Grass skiing is outdoor/ski racing on grass and needs specialist equipment plus a suitable slope.

First progress First controlled turns after a few sessions; race line needs training.

Fitness level medium to high

Was du brauchst

grass skis
boots/bindings
helmet
protectors
grass slope
gates
coach

First steps

find a grass-ski club
test rental equipment
use a flat slope
ski short gate drills

FIS/national ski federation, grass-ski club, summer training from a ski club or training slope.

Ride only on a suitable prepared slope with helmet, protectors, coach and clear run-out.

Weitere Angaben

Aliases Grasski, grass skiing, Grass Skiing, Grasskiing

Tags grass-skiing, outdoor-sport, wintersport, grasski, grasskiing

Rules and format

Die Grundlagen

Ziel

Race the grass-ski course legally and as fast as possible.

Teilnehmer

racers individually.

Teamgröße

individual start.

Spielfeld

prepared grass slope with gates.

Dauer

Depends on format and event.

Wertung

time, gate passage, aggregate scoring by format.

Gewinnbedingung

Best valid time, placing or score in the announced format.

Ausrüstung

grass skis
boots
helmet
protectors
gates

Wichtige Regelpunkte

missed gate
leaving course
equipment breach
start error
unsafe run

Regelquellen

Federations and sources

Federations

FIS
Federation Internationale de Ski et Snowboard (FIS)

Grass Skiing Hub FIS · federation-guide · high
Grass Skiing Documents FIS · document-library · high
Rules for the FIS Grass Ski World Cup Junior Cup FIS · world-cup-rules · high
The FIS Grasski World Cup Reddit / r/theocho · community-observation · medium