City Big Airs are the most public events our sport offers up.

Yet creativity, or at least variety, is on the rise in the Big Air world.

Doing something different, however, was clearly significantly rewarded.

FIS World Cup Big Air Mönchengladbach - Results & Recap

As such, in amongst the relentless trickery there were plenty of individual quirks too.

Axel Le Palabe, huge dub bio 10, 88.6.

Elias Syrja, pre-safety dub 9, 85.6.

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Oscar Wester Dub 14 blunt 91.6.

Run 2:

Ralph Welponer, steezy sw dub 12 safety, 79.2.

Christian Nummedal, sw dub 14 mute, 89.6.

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Elias Ambuehl, triple 16 (sketchy).

Jonas Hunziker, switch dub misty 14 safety, 90.0.

Elias Syrja, switch dub 10 lead blunt.

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Felix Stridsberg-Usterud, dub 12 reverse mute (super nice), 90.4.

Oscar Wester, dub misty 12 mute, 89.2.

Run 3:

Christian Nummedal, triple 16 safety, 93.4. triple 14 safety (slightly under-rotated) 92.0.

Axel Le Palabe, MASSIVE switch dub 10 truck, too big to land clean but gnarly.

Felix Usterud, switch dub 12 blunt, 83.2.

This development should make the slopestyle season that much more interesting because there’s a new standard to match.

Silvia Bertagna, switch left 7 mute, 81.2.

Sarah Hoefflin, switch right 7 high mute, 84.2.

Giulia Tanno, dub 10 safety, 94.2.

Dominique Ohaco, switch 9 mute, 83.

Giulia Tanno, switch 9 safety, 80.4.

Sarah Hoefflin, misty 7 mute for 82.6.