Slalom ski game
Race slalom free in your browser: 3 courses from green to black and 3 quick drills, each with medal times, a Course Setter to beat and a world record to set.
Race slalomSlalom courses
Green to black, each with its world record. Free to race in your browser, no download.
- GreenWide OpenLong slalom gates, back-to-back delays and a first hairpin
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- BlueClassicRhythm changes, a big delay, a hairpin and a flush
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- BlackRhythm AlleyTwo hairpins, a royal flush and a traverse. Read every gate.
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Slalom drills
- DrillOpen GatesA slalom rhythm that tightens and opens again: stay early in every turn
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- DrillDelayOne delayed gate in a slalom rhythm: turn early and high to carry your speed
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- DrillFlushA royal flush, then a hairpin: come in over the top, then one turn per pole
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Slalom in CarveMania
In CarveMania, slalom speed comes from the skis, not a tuck: a clean, on-time edge change just after each pole springs you into the next turn, and a tuck between turns throws that spring away. The combinations are set like a real slalom, from hairpins up to a five-pole royal flush. Go the wrong side of a gate and it costs 2 seconds; clip a pole on a tight line and it bumps you back out. The Course Setter tops 34 mph on Classic.
What is slalom?
Slalom is the shortest, tightest event in alpine ski racing: a course of closely set gates down a steep slope, skied in two runs on two different sets, with the two times added together. Racers turn about once a second, knocking the hinged poles out of the way with their shins and pole guards as they pass.
It’s a technical event, like giant slalom: the speed comes from clean, quick turns, not from gliding. Where the gates are set straight down the hill they make combinations: a hairpin is two gates one above the other, a flush three or more.
Slalom rules
- Two runs on different courses; the fastest combined time wins.
- Men’s World Cup courses drop 180–220 m and have 55–75 gates.
- Both ski tips and both feet must cross each gate line on the correct side. Straddle a pole, one ski either side of it, and it’s a fault.
- Slalom skis are the shortest of the four events: at least 165 cm for men.
What’s the difference between slalom and giant slalom?
Slalom gates are set much closer together, so the turns are shorter and quicker and the speeds lower, roughly 25 mph against about 40 mph in giant slalom. Giant slalom courses are longer, with a bigger vertical drop and wider, rounder turns on longer skis. Both are two-run technical events.
See how all four events compare, or race the others: Giant Slalom, Super-G, Downhill.
Real-world figures are men’s World Cup unless noted. Sources: Slalom skiing (Wikipedia), Giant slalom (Wikipedia), Super-G (Wikipedia), Downhill (Wikipedia), Speed in World Cup alpine ski racing, Gilgien et al., Fastest World Cup downhill skiing speed (Guinness World Records).