Move over, X Games

A kangaroo flip over a huge tabletop, a 900-indy grab out of a superpipe and a switch disaster onto a double-kinked rail.

To many people, those descriptions would sound like gibberish.

But from Thursday to Sunday in Breckenridge, pro skiers and snowboarders will be throwing all of those slopestyle and superpipe tricks — plus some — at the first-ever Winter Dew Tour in Breckenridge.

Consisting of three stops — Breckenridge, Mount Snow, Vt., and Northstar, Calif. — the inaugural Winter Dew Tour will hit Summit County this week. The Dew Tour has not been to Colorado since its summer stop in Denver in 2006.

Run by the Alliance of Action Sports, the tour will be nationally televised and offers a total prize purse of $1.5 million.

Because action sports have become so popular in recent years, BJ Carretta, director of marketing for the tour, said there was a need to create a consistent, annual series similar to the PGA Tour for golf.

“I think action sports as a whole has grown over the last 10 to 20 years across the world,” Carretta said. “It has become a lot more mainstream.”

With athletes such as Tanner Hall, Simon Dumont, Shaun White and Hannah Teter competing in superpipe and slopestyle events, the roster is similar to that of the Winter X Games. But unlike the X Games — which are invitation-only — Carretta said the Dew Tour has an open-qualifier format, which gives athletes who did not prequalify the chance to compete in the series.

“We are looking to grow these sports and maintain them ... across all disciplines,” Carretta said.

Based on a cumulative point system, the Dew Cup — the most prestigious award at the tour — goes to the athlete with the highest number of points gained after the three stops. Carretta said last summer’s Dew Cup winner — 14-year-old Chaz Ortiz — initially won the open-qualifier format, known as the “Free Flow Tour,” before beating Ryan Sheckler for the award.

Besides the skiing and snowboarding, the four-day event will include a festival village with interactive events and free concerts from such bands as the All-American Rejects, People Under the Stairs and Boulder rap group 3Oh!3.

The event is free to the public, and spectators can ride the BreckConnect Gondola up to Peak 8 to view all of the extreme sports action, according to Breckenridge spokesman Ryan Whaley.

Whaley said everyone in Summit County is excited for the first stop of the tour.

“This is the biggest event that Breckenridge has ever hosted, and it is a great opportunity to do what we do best, which is to bring the mountain and the town together,” Whaley said.

Many of the competitors arrived in Colorado last week to train for the event, he said.

“The pros are in Summit County, there is no question about that,” Whaley said. “They are training at Keystone, they are training at Breckenridge and at the other resorts and are just getting ready for the Dew Tour.”

Team Toyota rider Elena Hight, a 19-year-old pro snowboarder competing in the superpipe event, said the Dew Tour is one of the highlights of her competition schedule.

“It is basically like having 3 X Games all season,” Hight said.

Because of the three separate stops and the number of professionals competing, Hight said, the tour allows people to see the progression of skiing and snowboarding firsthand.

“The top snowboarders and skiers are in this contest, and it is pretty much the only time you will be able to see all of them in one spot,” Hight said. “It is an amazing contest.”