Freestyle test

What are the tests for?

Created by ESF, the tests allow everyone to progress step by step in their practice of snow sports.

On the basis of precise technical criteria, our esf instructors validate the technical level of you, your child or teenager, their achievements and the points to improve on in their practice of freestyle.

Freestyle ski tests

Small Freestyler

Validate 3 tests in red out of the 4.

Flat

Impulse two feet in direct trace
180 ° slide in each direction
Tail press Switch
Direct trace

Jib

Switch from initiation boxes to 50/50

Kicker

Straight jump with two-footed kickback on initiation kicker

Air-bag / backcountry

Straight jump with counter rotation (shiffty, twist)

Soft slope / initiation

Flat: Low slope
Jib: Dancefloor and box, not long, close to the ground, wide kickers glued to the jib module.
Kicker / backcountry: Dish from 1 to 3 metres low

Freestyler inter

Validate 3 tests in red out of the 4.

Flat

Switch evolution on low slope
360 ° slid in each direction
Crossing jump

Jib

Switch from intermediate boxes to 50/50
Shuffle on initiation box

Kicker

Straight jump with counter rotation (shiffty, twist) on initiation kicker

Air-bag / backcountry

Straight jump with grab
180°

Soft slope / initiation

Flat: Low Slope

Jib: Dancefloor and box, not long, close to the ground, wide kickers glued to the jib module.

Kicker / backcountry : Dish from 1 to 3 metres low

Freestyler

Validate 3 tests in red out of the 4.

Flat

Awareness of reading and using the land
Low to moderate slope switch evolution
180 ° jumped in each direction
Ollie

Jib

180 ° slipped on initiation box
Slide on initiation box

Kicker

180 ° slipped on initiation kicker
Straight jump on intermediate kicker
Straight jump with grab on initiation kicker

Air-bag / backcountry

Tentative backflip / frontlip
360°

Moderate / intermediate trail
Flat: Medium slope, use of reliefs and runway edges
Jib: Box, more length, less width, simple kink
Kicker / backcountry: Parabola from 1 to 6 meters, moderate height

Freestyler expert

Validate 3 tests in red out of the 4.

Flat

Reading and autonomous use of the field
Switch evolution controlled moderate to steep slopes
360 ° slide switch

Jib

Unnatural slide on initiation box
Input on switch on initiation box
Slide on intermediate box

Kicker

180° graved on intermediate kicker
360° on initiation kicker
Sraight jump on expert kicker

Air-bag / backcountry

Backflip / frontlip
540°
Switch 180°

Piste modérée / intermédiaire

Flat : Medium slope, use of reliefs and runway edges

Jib: Box, more length, less width, simple kink

Kicker / backcountry: Parabola from 1 to 6 meters, moderate height

Freestyler pro

Validate 3 tests in red out of the 4.

Flat

Optimized land use
All-track switch evolution
Nollie
360 jump

Jib

Unnatural slide on intermediate box
Switch input on intermediate box
270 ° outlet
Slide on initiation rail

Kicker

360 ° grained on intermediate kicker
540 ° on initiation kicker
180 ° switch on initiation kicker
Straight jump with grab or counter rotation on expert kicker

Air-bag / backcountry

720°
Rotations désaxées
Switch 360°

All tracks / expert

Flat: All slopes, use of all reliefs, edges of tracks, breaks in tracks / breaks

Jib: Box and rail, all shapes, all entrances, multiple kink

Kicker / backcountry: 6 metre dish, high height

Freestyler Elite

Validate 3 tests in red out of the 4.

Flat

Evolution switch all snow, all terrain
Hand drag

Jib

270 ° entry
Unnatural slide on initiation rail
Mastery of street entrances
Slide on intermediate rail

Kicker

720 ° on intermediate kicker
360 ° switch on intermediate kicker
Backflip / Frontflip
360 ° on expert kicker

Air-bag / backcountry

Cork / organic 720 °
900 °
Switch 540

All tracks / expert
Flat: All slopes, use of all reliefs, edges of tracks, breaks in tracks / breaks Jib: box and rail, all shapes, all entrances, multiple kink
Kicker / backcountry: 6 metre dish, high height