Hampton Barringer Luzak is a creative professional with a diverse career background. An avid winter sports participant, Hampton Luzak, enjoys snowshoeing, nordic skiing, and alpine skiing. Alpine skiing is one of the major sports played at the Winter Olympics. Alpine skiing events are a speed or technical event that controls the quantity of runs skiers complete, the course layout, and the competition structure. The downhill event falls into the speed categories. In this event, athletes race downhill while managing gates (two poles opposite each other on a ski course) and the terrain of the course. Athletes can benefit from small hills if they want to improve their speed. Jumps can be disastrous if a skier loses balance and falls out of a tucked position. Unlike the other events, athletes do a trial run before their actual start.