Freestyle and Snowboard Judging: A Practical Guide

Higher trick difficulty can be offset by unstable landings or broken run flow.

Judging rewards not only risk but also clean execution and compositional control.

Slopestyle emphasizes line construction and trick linking, halfpipe rewards amplitude and clean landings, moguls value turn quality and rhythm.

Separating those lenses helps explain score differences quickly.

Track three layers in order: attempted difficulty, landing quality, and full-run coherence.

With this framework, ranking outcomes become easier to understand in real time.