WOW! Ski ballet! Have You ever seen something like that?

in #video7 years ago (edited)

Have You ever seen this before? :) That's looks amazing, don't You think so. Why they delete it from Olympic Games!?

Acrostic (later renamed ski ballet) was a freestyle skiing discipline from the late-1960s until the year 2000. It is no longer a part of competitive freestyle skiing.

Ski ballet involved a choreographed routine of flips, rolls, leg crossings, jumps, and spins performed on a smooth slope. After the mid-1970s the routine was performed to music for 90 seconds. For a short period of time (in the 1980s) there were also pair ballet competitions, a variation of ballet, where two people performed tricks that not only included spins, jumps and leg crossing but also lifts and synchronic movements. A panel of judges scored the performance similarly to figure skating.

Notable athletes:

Suzy Chaffee
Lane Spina
Rune Kristiansen
George Fuehrmeier

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