A purpose-built jump site at Mt Buller could give Australia's top aerial skiers the edge over many of their northern hemisphere rivals in the lead-up to the Vancouver Winter Olympics next February.

Australian medal hopefuls Lydia Lassila and Jacqui Cooper will be joined by teammates Bree Munro, Liz Gardner and David Morris for the August camp at the Victorian ski resort.

Olympic Winter Institute boss Geoff Lipshut said northern hemisphere athletes would be without on-snow jumping facilities during their summer while the Australian skiers will be refining their tricks on home turf.

"No-one else can jump in the world at this time," Lipshut said.

"The girls (and David) will arrive back from Europe and the US; the coaches will work with the lift company to get the site ready and set up the jumps with shovels.

"They'll ski for the first two or three days to acclimatise and then will be doing single somersaults and then later on, getting in 15 to 30 double somersaults a day."

Lipshut said ten young Victorian Institute of Sport (VIS) skiers will jump alongside the senior athletes at the camp. A maximum of four Australian aerialists can qualify for the Games.

Lipshut said some American skiers would attend the Mt Buller camp because Australia and the US had a training co-operation agreement.

"The US has an invitation because they let us train at their facility," he said.

Crucially though, the strong Chinese team may struggle to find anywhere else to jump on snow during the southern hemisphere winter.

Lipshut said Morris was a good chance to be the first Australian male aerialist to represent his country since 1998 when Jono Sweet represented at the Nagano Olympics.

Cooper, a five-time World Cup champion, will be the sentimental women's favourite in Vancouver as she goes into her fifth and final Games.

Despite being the greatest ever female aerial skier she has experienced no joy at the Olympics, a mix of injuries and botched jumps at the Games leaving her medal-less in four attempts.

Lassila, the defending World Cup champion, is also a strong show having claimed the overall title for the first time in 2008-09. She'll be looking to erase the memories of a horror Turin campaign where she blew out her knee after looking good in event qualifying.

Lisa Martin
AAP