Comp

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Comp

Other wise known as: Contest, Competition, A Throw Down, Show down

“Comps are a good place to sit back and watch people have serious carnage.”

A competition is a gathering of riders to find out who is the best among them, usually in an organized fashion with some sort of reward for going biggest, fastest or with the most style.

Back in the day most competitions were all about going fast and followed an old school skiing format. They included events like the slalom, the giant slalom and the dual slalom.

As the sport evolved the freestyle end has become much more prominent and events such as the big air, half pipe and slope style have emerged. Boarder cross has also become a very popular event in the past few years. Boarder cross evolved from slalom racing and includes a bit more freestyle and some good carnage.

The Olympics officially adopted snowboarding into the winter games in 1998 in Nagano, Japan. There were only four events, which were the Men’s, and Women’s halfpipe and giant slalom.