Aerial skiing

Aerial skiing

Skier performing an aerials jump during the 2010 Winter Olympics
Highest governing body	International Ski Federation
Characteristics
Type	Freestyle skiing
Presence
Country or region	Worldwide
Olympic	1988 and 1992 as demonstration event Medal event since 1994

Aerial skiing or aerials is a freestyle skiing discipline where athletes ski down a slope to launch themselves off a kicker (a vertically inclined ramp) and perform multiple twists and flips before landing on an inclined landing hill.^[1] Aerialists are scored on their jumps based on air, form and landing with their score multiplied by the degree of difficulty of the jump they performed.^[2]

Internationally, the sport is contested at the FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup, FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships, and the Winter Olympic Games.