Intro to Freestyle

No terrain park experience required! This clinic is for those looking to enter the freestyle world in a positive, welcoming environment.

Preparing for the PSIA/AASI Freestyle Specialist 1? Just want to improve your freestyle skiing/riding? Come ski/ride with our freestyle trainers!

We’ve also designed this clinic for those preparing for their PSIA/AASI Freestyle Specialist 1. Click here for the PSIA/AASI Freestyle Specialist Performance Guide.

Topics covered in this clinic:

• Using freestyle in your everyday lessons
• Flatland maneuvers (whirly-birds, butters, ollies, nollies, switch skiing/riding)
• Intro to POP, ATML, anatomy of features
• Intro to jumps, boxes, halfpipe

Clinic attendees will also learn how to build progressions and teach to each other along with improving their own freestyle skills.

Freestyle Specialist 1 Standards:

Skiing/Riding:

• Basic skidded medium radius switch turns on green terrain
• Perform straight airs over small natural or man-made features
• Spin 180s – both clockwise and counterclockwise – off small jump features
• Perform ollies, and both clockwise and counterclockwise on-snow spins and butters
• Ride onto and off a sliding feature with a rotational or pressure move
• At the top of the transition zone in a halfpipe or alternative transitional feature, demonstrate the ability to use appropriate flexion/extension movements for a halfpipe air trajectory and make an edge change near the turn apex
• Perform an alley-oop in a halfpipe or alternative transition feature

Teaching/Coaching:

• Learning Partnership, Teaching Cycle
• PDAS, CAP, Maslow’s
• Basic Safety & risk management
• Navigating groups through the terrain park
• ATML™
• Park S.M.A.R.T.
• Session vs Flow environment
• Challenges; role of the parent, fear & anxiety
• The successful participant will demonstrate the ability to teach students of varying ages in beginner/novice ability levels and in terrain that includes green and groomed blue terrain, small freestyle terrain features, and natural terrain

PAID: NO

Team members should NOT be in uniform.

Prerequisites: None!