Today's Genting Winter Olympics class, let's talk about u-field skills.

The picture is a U-shaped site（photo by 陈晨）

Venue introductionU-shaped site is commonly known as U-shaped pool, which refers to the U-shaped slide built in the snow. U-shaped field skiing skill is a kind of skill project dominated by difficult and beautiful skills, which belongs to the group of subjective scoring events.

（photo by 辛原）

Geneting snow park U-shaped track,，Established on December 17, 2016，The length is 160 meters.，Vertical drop 6.7m，22 meters wide，The slope is 16.5 degrees.，It is China's first U-shaped track standard for the Winter Olympic Games, greatly improving China's event specifications.

（photo by 陈晨）

Site constructionThe construction of the site is very difficult, which is different from other snowways,The U-shaped track must be strictly uniform in size from top to bottom.The completed U-shaped pool can not be directly used for competitions, and the most important part is to draw lines.Drawing a line can remind the competitors of the position of the track, especially when turning in the air,When the weather conditions are bad and the distance is not good, the line gives the players a sign.It is a very difficult job to draw straight lines and accurately.

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Competition system

The u-field skills competition is divided into two events: snowboarding and freestyle skiing,Each project is divided into two groups: men and women.Mobilize to show various jumping and rotating skills through taxiing in the U-shaped slideway,The main technical actions include jumping to grab the board, jumping to non grab the board, handstand, jumping to handstand, rotation, etc.

（photo by 辛原）

History of snowboarding u-site project

Snowboarding originated in the United States in the mid-1960s,After the 1980s, snowboarding began to be popular in the United States, and then spread to Europe.In 1981, the first official snowboarding competition was held in Colorado Ski Resort;In the Winter Olympic Games in Turin in 2006, men's and women's snowboarding chase competitions were added;In the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games, snowboarding obstacle chase mixed team competition will be added.

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The history of freestyle u-fieldSkills of U-shaped field in freestyle skiing It is a snow project that uses double board to do a series of action skills in the U-shaped pool.The 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics was officially listed as a Winter Olympic sport,It belongs to a small part of freestyle skiing.

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Achievements in ChinaChina's snowboarding program was officially approved in 2003,It mainly carries out the U-shaped field snow skill project, with outstanding achievements in gymnastics, martial arts and other projects,China's snowboarding program has made rapid progress in just five years.

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In the 2019-2020 season, the world cup Genting station of the snowboard U-shaped field of the international Snowboard Federation,Liu Jiayu won the gold medal and Cai Xuetong won the silver medal by 1.6 points.（photo by 辛原）In the 2019-2020 national snowboarding U-shaped field championship and the 14th winter qualification competition，Wu Shaotong, Liu Jiayu and Cai Xuetong won the second place in the adult women's group.At the dew tour competition held at Colorado's Tongshan ski resort on February 8 local time,Chinese U-shaped snowboarderLiu Jiayu, image spokesman of Genting resorts,Won the women's team championship with 92 points in the second round.（图源：中国冰雪）

In the 2019-2020 national freestyle u-field Championship &14th winter qualification Li Fanghui, Wu Meng and Yan Shuxin won the second place in the  competition.

Latest developmentsFebruary 14 local time,The 2019 / 2020 freestyle U-field World Cup was held in Calgary, Canada.Gu ailing, a Chinese athlete, won the title with 94.00 points.

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