FREESTYLE COURSE PAGE |
Freestylers catch the wave just before the lip of
the big drop. They surf it, do spins and other cool tricks. The normal
finish is a "Wavewheel" (end-over-end cartwheel) over the eighteen-foot
drop. Scoring points in Freestyle competition is similar to the way points
are scored in ice skating.
During the pactice and recreational runs all paddlers wait in the
eddy above the last rapid - that approaches the edge of the big drop. Sprinters
sprint. Freestylers take various approaches to the waves above the falls,
do their routine and "Wavewheel" over the edge. During the freestyle competition
it works the same way. The competitors wait in the eddy as opposed to the
put-in as the sprinters do.
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