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Slopestyle Snowboarding

Slopestyle snowboarding is a snowboard park-and-pipe format: riders take a line over rails, boxes and jumps. Difficulty, execution, amplitude, style, variety and overall impression are judged.

LevelVariant FamilyWinter Sport CategoryWinter sport

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Classification

Category Winter sport

Family Winter Sport

Level Variant

Getting started

Kurzbeschreibung Slopestyle snowboarding is a snowboard park-and-pipe format: riders take a line over rails, boxes and jumps.

Geeignet für Fits if you want snowboarding with tricks rather than only carving, you want to approach park features progressively and with protection, you understand style, difficulty and execution as the scoring core.

Cost First safe snowboard edge control, then beginner park clinic with small features. Snowboard, boots/bindings, helmet/protection, lift pass, snow park, coaching and possible contest fees. Snowboard school, freestyle/park training, snow-park clinic, club or resort beginner line. Do not mix it with ski equipment or generic winter-sport judging text.

First progress Small features after safe board base; clean tricks need repetition.

Fitness level high

Was du brauchst

Snowboard, boots/bindings, helmet, possible protection, beginner snow park, coach/experienced support and clear feature approval.

First steps

Start with safe snowboarding on both edges, then small park features: straight box, basic grabs/pop, landing position and park etiquette.
Look for snowboard school, snow-park clinic, club training, resort beginner line or FIS/federation programmes for park and pipe.

Look for snowboard school, snow-park clinic, club training, resort beginner line or FIS/federation programmes for park and pipe.

Start only in the appropriate source-described context and follow local rules.

Weitere Angaben

Tags slopestyle-snowboarding, winter-sport, snowboard-slopestyle, wintersport

Rules and format

Die Grundlagen

Ziel

Show a creative, difficult and clean snowboard line over all features.

Teilnehmer

individual snowboarders.

Teamgröße

individual.

Spielfeld

snowboard slopestyle course.

Dauer

Depends on format and event.

Wertung

judged run score.

Gewinnbedingung

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

Ausrüstung

snowboard
boots/bindings
helmet
snow park

Wichtige Regelpunkte

equipment breach
start/course breach
missed run
unsafe line

Regelquellen

Federations and sources

Federations

FIS
International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS)

What to know about Olympic snowboard slopestyle NBC Olympics · viewer-guide · medium
How slopestyle competitions are judged Red Bull · athlete-guide · medium
Snowboard Park & Pipe Hub FIS · official-discipline-guide · high