Goodwill Games

Events/Disciplines: Aerials, Moguls, Dual Moguls

Venue: Aerials: MacKenzie-Intervale Ski Jump Complex
Moguls: Whiteface Mountain (Wilderness Trail)
Dual Moguls: Whiteface Mountain (Wilderness Trail)

Competition Schedule: Aerials: Saturday, February 19 - 7:00 pm
Moguls: Saturday, February 19 - 12:40 pm
Dual Moguls: Sunday, February 20 - 1:00 pm

Number of Athletes: Aerials - 16 men/16 women
Moguls - 16 men/16 women
Dual Moguls - 16 men/16 women

Brief Description: Moguls - Moguls are snowy bumps - usually set by machine, but sometimes manmade by skiers carving through new snow. Machinemade moguls are more uniform - manmade bumps may be less consistent and therefore more tricky to ski. Moguls (individual moguls is simply called "moguls"; dual moguls goes by "duals") has skiers competing in two runs. The scores of the two runs are combined, and the athlete with the highest point total wins. Score is awarded on the basis of speed down a run plus points awarded by judges seated at the bottom of the run. An athlete's "line" down the course is also graded, as well as the obligatory two upright "air" maneuvers. Skiers pick their own jumps to perform - nothing mandatory, other than making the two jumps (the jumps are interchangeably called "airs" or "jumps").

Dual Moguls - Head-to-head competition with skiers competing on side-by-side courses (red course, blue course) - the winner moves on. As with moguls, the duals winner is determined by judges at the bottom of the run awarding points, as well as speed (who finishes first).

Note: "Airs" are upright aerials (i.e., the feet never go above the head). You may have helicopter-like maneuvers - Jonny Moseley's 360-mute grab that won him the '98 Olympic gold - or the dynamic Kosak (skier's hands/poles straight down with the skis coming up sideways, almost as if they'll come up to ear-level).

Aerials - Inverted aerials are the norm, with skiers launched off manmade "kickers" to perhaps 60 feet in the air, coming down on a sloped landing area (the slope softens their re-entry, as opposed to landing on a flat surface). The top men routinely perform a quad-twist: four twists, three somersaults - in a single aerial; the top women perform a triple-twist. Skiers must perform two different jumps and points are awarded solely on style by judges. The winner is the skier with the highest combined point total.