How do Olympic freestyle skiers produce their amazing tricks? A biomechanics expert explains
- Written by: Kevin Netto, Associate Professor, Curtin School of Allied Health and Curtin enAble Institute, Curtin University
Yosuke Hayasaka/APThere have been some incredible acrobatics on display in Beijing, with Australia’s Jakara Anthony scoring gold in the women’s moguls this week.
How do these athletes pull off such incredible feats of manoeuvrability, and land them (mostly)?
The mechanics of freestyle acrobatics
Freestyle skiers and snowboarders have to...