Mogul skiing

Mogul skiing
	An athlete mogul skiing at Waterville Valley Resort
Highest governing body	International Ski and Snowboard Federation
Characteristics
Type	Freestyle skiing
Presence
Country or region	Worldwide
Olympic	1988 as demonstration event; Medal event since 1992;

Mogul skiing is a freestyle skiing competition consisting of one timed run of free skiing on a steep, heavily moguled course, stressing technical turns, aerial maneuvers and speed.^[1] Internationally, the sport is contested at the FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships, and at the Winter Olympic Games.

Moguls are a series of bumps on a piste formed when skiers push snow into mounds as they do sharp turns. This tends to happen naturally as skiers use the slope but they can also be constructed artificially. Once formed, a naturally occurring mogul tends to grow as skiers follow similar paths around it, further deepening the surrounding grooves known as troughs. Since skiing tends to be a series of linked turns, moguls form together to create a bump field.

The term "mogul" is from the Bavarian/Austrian German word Mugel, meaning "mound, hillock".^[2]

^ "FIS Freestyle Skiing Scoring / Judging Handbook" (PDF). FIS. FIS. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 February 2014. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
^ Moguls on My Mind by Wilhelm Grout, Skiing, November 1980, p. 24

[fis-1] "FIS Freestyle Skiing Scoring / Judging Handbook" (PDF). FIS. FIS. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 February 2014. Retrieved 18 October 2014.

[2] Moguls on My Mind by Wilhelm Grout, Skiing, November 1980, p. 24

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