CALGARY - Big air, soft landing.
Freestyle skiers and snowboarders rocketing off a jump into an enormous air bag Monday at Canada Olympic Park compared it to jumping into a giant marshmallow.
The new inflatable landing pad billows like a waterbed when an athlete lands on its surface and slithers off the side.
"It's a good tool to learn new tricks," freestyle skier Luke Heck said Monday.
The behemoth landing cushion — 17 metres long and 11 metres wide — is the first one in Alberta and one of the few air bags in Canada.
The head of the Canadian Freestyle Ski Association believes, however, the use of air bags is going to take off in popularity. The International Olympic Committee recently added freestyle and snowboard slopestyle, as well as women's ski halfipe to its Winter Games menu. Read More
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