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MOGULS
Aggressive Turns and 3-D Tricks are on Parade!
Moguls are the most popular event in freestyle skiing. It is an event of the Olympics also, and the worldwide publicity is far ahead of the other ones. Every athlete must ski down on steep bumpy courses, and perform tricks after flying off each two air bumps on the course. They compete with rivals in stressing technical turns, the difficulty and perfection of air maneuvers, and speed. The rule has been changed widely, after SALT LAKE CITY Olympics in 2002. The scoring format has been altered, for example, permitted using vertical air tricks, and obliged to wear helmets along with that. Specifically, USA, Canada, Finland, France, and Japan have a lot of powerful Moguls athletes.
DUAL MOGULS
The Heated Battle is the Very Basics for Moguls
To put it plainly, it is a tournament version of Moguls. The champion is decided on the way that two athletes ski down at the same time, and the winner goes to the next race, however not all skiers who reached one's goal first can get win because air tricks and turn quality are also judged. Anyway, we can't miss this event, because there are more athletes ski down at extraordinary high-speed than in single Moguls. In the early World championships, the Dual style had been used in only finals (until Championships LAKE PLACID in 1991). It has been revived as an independent event since the Championships MEIRINGEN in 1999(Switzerland). To ski aggressive is required in Dual, which lead not a few competitors to bring out their own real ability.
The Daffy Course is no Mickey Mouse Slope
There are some hard mogul courses on the Freestyle FIS World Cup, but nothing like the 'Daffy' course. Other courses around the World Cup, have names like 'Wilderness' in Lake Placid, New York, USA built for the 1991 FIS Freestyle World Championships, 'Champion' in Deer Valley at Park City USA constructed the 2002 Olympic Winter Games and the new 'Olympic' course in Cypress Mountain CAN for the 2010 Games, but pretty nothing can compare to the 'Daffy' Slope in Inawashiro, Japan the site of the 2009 Freestyle FIS World Championships.
Some 32 Mogul World Cups have been held on the slope since 1988 and the Listel Resort has held annual competitions since 1998.
Named after an old school freestyle upright jump, the 'Daffy' course is a nightmare to all but the best skiers on the Mogul World Cup. There is nothing old school about the slope and it has tested every old school champion, like Donna WEINBRECHT (USA) Gold 1992 Albertville 1992 OWG, Stine Lise HATTESTAD (NOR) Gold Lillehammer 1994 OWG, MITTERMAYER Tatjana (GER) Bronze Nagano 1998 and on the men's side with Edgar GROSPIRON (FRA) Gold Albertville 1992 OWG and Nelson CARMICHAEL (USA) Albertville Bronze 1992 OWG.
No one in their right mind skis on the slope unless they are qualified to be on the World Cup. Make a right turn of the top of the ski lift instead of a left turn, and you end up in place you really do not want to be and there is now out except literally straight down.
What make a mogul slope hard? It mainly has to do the steepness of the slope that in Freestyle is measured in degree. The Daffy slope, averages some 30 degrees from start to finish. The landing of the upper jump actually at 33 degree, some of the middle sections are 39 degrees at the rest is at 27 degrees and it 'flattens' out to 25 degrees just before the finish line. Just after the start, which is actually is at 36 degrees, the same angle as some aerial landings, remains that angle until you get to the first airbump some 37 meters away.
Many skiers ought to be afraid to try to make it just make it to the start, rather than ski it from top to bottom with out any interruption. Many of the top skiers never made it down in one piece today and the scores of the competitions (made up of turns, air and speed) reflect actually how hard this is.
Normally, the course is shorten to just 200 meters long, the minimum length for a FIS mogul course, but it was increased to 225 meters this season, which is the minimum regulation length for World Championships, since this seasons competitions test all aspects of the championships.
The skiers that win on this slope, at next years World Championships, will foreshadow the Olympic Winter Games podium in Vancouver in February of 2010.
Pretty much all of the World Cup, World and Olympic Champions have either won here or been on the podium on the Daffy course;
This article was written by Freestyle coordinator, Joseph T. Fitzgerald.
Table of Results from World Cup Inawashiro 1988-2008
| Date | Ladies | Men's | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank 1 | Rank 2 | Rank 3 | Rank 1 | Rank 2 | Rank 3 | |
| 16-02-2008 | UEMURA Aiko (JPN) | SUDOVA Nikola (CZE) | TORITO Emiko (USA) | BEGG-SMITH Dale (AUS) | UENO Osamu (JPN) | BABIC David (USA) COLAS Guilbaut (FRA) |
| 17-02-2007 | HEIL Jennifer (CAN) | ROARK Michelle (USA) | ST.PIERRE Stephanie (CAN) | ROBERTS Nathan (USA) | BOWMAN-KIRIGIN Jay (USA) | TSUKITA Yugo (JPN) |
| 05-03-2006 | HEIL Jennifer (CAN) | LAOURA Sandra (FRA) | UEMURA Aiko (JPN) | RONKAINEN Mikko (FIN) | OZAKI Kai (JPN) | ROUSSEAU Pierre-Alexandre (CAN) |
| 06-02-2005 | HEIL Jennifer (CAN) | SATOYA Tae (JPN) | TRAA Kari (NOR) | BLOOM Jeremy (USA) | CABRAL Travis-Antone (USA) | NONOGAKI Hiroki (JPN) |
| 05-02-2005 | VOGTLI Jillian (USA) | MARBLER Margarita (AUT) | KEARNEY Hannah (USA) | BLOOM Jeremy (USA) | BEGG-SMITH Dale (AUS) | UENO Osamu (JPN) |
| 15-02-2004 | MARBLER Margarita (AUT) | HEIL Jennifer (CAN) | TRAA Kari (NOR) | CABRAL Travis-Antone (USA) | DAWSON Toby (USA) | RONKAINEN Mikko (FIN) |
| 14-02-2004 | MARBLER Margarita (AUT) | HEIL Jennifer (CAN) | VOGTLI Jillian (USA) | DAWSON Toby (USA) | SCHIMAN Jim (CAN) | BLOOM Jeremy (USA) |
| 15-02-2003 | TRAA Kari (NOR) | ROARK Michelle (USA) | LAOURA Sandra (FRA) | CABRAL Travis-Antone (USA) | RONKAINEN Mikko (FIN) | GLUSHENKO Vitali (RUS) |
| 03-03-2002 | HEIL Jennifer (CAN) | TRAA Kari (NOR) | UEMURA Aiko (JPN) | RONKAINEN Mikko (FIN) | BLOOM Jeremy (USA) | TSUKITA Yugo (JPN) |
| 03-02-2001 | TRAA Kari (NOR) | UEMURA Aiko (JPN) | BAHRKE Shannon (USA) | LAHTELA Janne (FIN) | ROUSSEAU Pierre-Alexandre (CAN) | CABRAL Travis-Antone (USA) |
| 05-02-2000 | BATTELLE Ann (USA) | ELFMAN Marja (SWE) | SCHMITT Sandra (GER) | LAHTELA Janne (FIN) | TSUKITA Yugo (JPN) | OVERAA Stian (NOR) |
| 17-02-1999 | SATOYA Tae (JPN) | ELFMAN Marja (SWE) | ROARK Michelle (USA) | LAHTELA Janne (FIN) | ROCHON Stephane (CAN) | MARTIN Caleb (USA) |
| 17-02-1999 | BATTELLE Ann (USA) | ELFMAN Marja (SWE) | UEMURA Aiko (JPN) | JOHNSON Ryan (CAN) | BRASSARD Jean-Luc (CAN) | LAHTELA Janne (FIN) |
| 29-02-1992 | WEINBRECHT Donna (USA) | HATTESTAD Stine Lise (NOR) | MITTERMAYER Tatjana (GER) | GROSPIRON Edgar (FRA) | CARMICHAEL Nelson (USA) | ALLAMAND Olivier (FRA) |
| 10-02-1990 | WEINBRECHT Donna (USA) | MITTERMAYER Tatjana (GER) | MORODER Petra (ITA) | GROSPIRON Edgar (FRA) | ENGELSEN EIDE Hans (NOR) | MARTIN Chuck (USA) |
| 30-01-1988 | MORRISSON Leelee (CAN) | MONOD Raphaelle (FRA) | HATTESTAD Stine Lise (NOR) | KELLOKUMPU Martti (FIN) | GROSPIRON Edgar (FRA) | BERTHON Eric (FRA) |
