The Bristol Mountain Freestyle Team provides athletes with the opportunity to master their freestyle skiing/riding skills in competitive moguls, big air, terrain park, and the half pipe. Whether you’re interested in training hard with the hope of making the US Freestyle Team someday, competing at local events, or you would like to improve your mogul, air, or pipe skills, we have a program that teaches these skills, tactics, and maneuvers. A strong emphasis is placed on safe skiing and riding while having fun. Coaching is included at selected USSA/USASA sanctioned events.

The Bristol Mountain Freestyle Snowboard Team competes in USASA Western NY competitions in Slopestyle, Half Pipe and Boardercross, with the ultimate goal of qualifying for the USASA Nationals competition in April at Copper Mountain. Coaching is included for team members at selected local and regional events.

2011-12 Season – Alpine Terrain Park Freestyle Team

This upcoming season, the Bristol Mountain Alpine Terrain Park Team will be an expansion of our Parkrunners program to include dedicated training for Freeride/Slopestyle and Half Pipe on both Saturday and Sunday. These athletes will have the ability to compete at local USSA and/or USASA events or just train with the team to develop their skills. The program will focus on park safety/etiquette, the fundamentals of skiing, air (takeoffs, form, landings), rails, etc., all while having a great time!

As always we would like to attract new members to our team. We have a great group of coaches and athletes who make the whole experience fun and comfortable. We do some pretty exciting things and build some really cool stuff to train and compete on (come and check out the Upper Meteor jump site!). We hand shovel our mogul courses and jumps and soften all the landings to limit the impact of landing and make things as safe as possible. Our program provides training in Moguls, Aerials, and Freeride and is pretty flexible per the interests of the individual athlete. We all work hard, train hard, and have a blast doing it – all we are missing is YOU!! Come and check us out!

Freestyle Programs:

Freestyle Events at Bristol Mountain

January 13-16, 2012 - USSA Freestyle Competition
March 11, 2012 - Bump This Competition
 

More Freestyle Information

Purchasers of the full-rate Runners or Masters programs will receive a season pass valid each day of the lesson program as well as the make-up day offered at the end of the season. Season passes are issued in the Guest Services Office during regular business hours. We recommend that passes be picked up before the first training day to avoid any delays. Passes are nontransferable and must be visible to lift attendants. Replacement cost for lost passes is $25.

Important: The Bristol Mountain Assumption of All Risks Agreement as well as the Parent Agreement (if participant is under the age of 18) must be signed by the participant and/or parent prior to participation. Students will not be able to participate in the lesson without a completed form.

On the first day of the program, participants must check in at the Snowsports School/Information Desk in the Main Lodge between 8:30 am-9:30 am.

Classes are held rain or shine. If severe weather prevents classes from being held, an announcement will be made on the snow phone, 585-374-1100, along with rescheduled dates.

A make-up ski or snowboard day is available in March the week after the completion of the lesson program. The make-up day allows participants to ski or snowboard on their own and does not include coaching.

REFUNDS ARE NOT ISSUED UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.

Call 585-374-6000 or email snowsports@bristolmt.com for additional information.

Download the Freestyle registration form

Freestyle News

By Johnny Kroetz

The 2010-11 winter was another great season for the Bristol Freestyle Team. The Bristol team won the Flite Cup at Holimont despite having the smallest program there and ended their season by almost taking a first place team finish at the USSA Eastern Division Freestyle Championships at Mount Snow. Bristol won both the Moguls and Aerials team awards but narrowly lost in the overall category to the host Mount Snow program. Mount Snow has almost 3 times as many athletes entered in the event and there were 23 teams from the Eastern Division participating in three days of events which included Slopestyle, Moguls, and Aerials. Way to go team!!!

Our recent graduate, Jonathon Lillis, completed his first full year as a member of the US Ski Team competing in several World Cup events and finishing 2nd at Junior Nationals. He spent the entire summer training at the US Team facility in Park City, Utah and now has qualified jumps with 3 flips and up to 5 full twists. He is setting up for an amazing year on the World Cup circuit.

The entire team has been hard at work training in the off season. Several athletes traveled all the way to Arapahoe Basin in Colorado in May to train with members of the US Mogul team. Then it was off to the Olympic Jumping Complex in Lake Placid where the team held two full camps with about 25 athletes over 6 days. Four of our members spent extended periods training at the complex; some logging roughly 75 days! With all of this off-season dedication as well as the awesome in-season training the whole team gets at Bristol, this should be a very good year!