Extreme skiing cant be siad to be originated by one person. while some one on one side of the world was doin flips and spins, another is doin spins on the other side of the word. So I can say there is only one true place it was originated. I, Timmothy Conant of Anchorage Alaska invented extreme skiing in my back yard during the winter of 1993 when I was really high.

If your looking to become one, it's much better than regular skiing. We use flashy and tricked out jackets, pants, etc. Also trench coats for some too. Use very small poles because they don't get in your way as much. Use twin tipped skis. Usually a little wider than normal and have your bindings placed in the center (for better balance). LINE skis are always good, twin tipped atomics, and lots of other twins our good too. Buy a normal helmet usually pretty plain. Plain because when you start to enter contest and get sponsors, stickers to support a brand are always fly. You don't need to sag your pants like most. I personally don't because i don't think it looks that much more dope, and it gets in my way when performing tricks. Get some sick goggles though usually reflective cause that way... well it's just fly. Use a bandana or something close too it. I use a thing that looks like a bandana but is a better material because sometimes the bad bandana cloth freezes and chafes. You can find these kind of "bandanas" at any local ski/board shop. For gloves simply something very warm but light and able to use. So usually a glove. Boots are kind of out there. Just get a good one with good support, that's warm, and pretty flexible.

Have fun becoming a Freestyler!

Skiing was invented because some people were having trouble going trough the snow, so they used animal bones that they hunted down.

No. Snowboard cross is a downhill sport, but the slopes are not any where near as steep as downhill racing - snowboarding on an Olympic level downhill ski course would be suicide.

According to the page linked to the right, "What is Freestyle Skiing,": Freestyle skiing was organized in Canada in 1974 by John Johnston, Moguls has had full medal status in the Olympics since 1992 with Aerials acceptance into the Olympics in 1994. There is probably more to the story than this. There is a lot more to the story. John Johnston was instrumental in organizing Freestyle Skiing in Canada, but it really originated in the US prior to '74. Not to discount a few random and early "flips" by Stein Erickson and others in the 60's, freestyle skiing's main tap root can be traced to group of "hotdoggers", including Canadians and Europeans, who were brought together in the early 70's by Skiing Mag (or was it Ski?) at Sun Valley and Jackson Hole (etc) to compete for an automobile. There were no rules to speak of so the wildest or craziest run would win. It also resulted in serious injuries, so the competitors got together to form a regulatory body. I was the attorney and I formed a nonprofit called International Freestyle Skiing Association for them in 1973. I attended the competitions and tried to help them make sense of it all (mostly late at night while they were wrangling over rule changes for the next morning!!) The competitor were literally inventing this new sport on the fly, often changing the rules between competitions. Summer of 1974, they asked me to organize the business side of the tour to give it more stability. I formed a corporation called Professional Freestyle Associates, which then negotiated contracts with ABC Wide World of Sports, CBC in Canada and Eurovision, which then enable us to sign Midas Muffler, Colgate for the Women's competition, plus European and Canadian Sponsors. The competitors, through their nonprofit association, put together the rules, the format, trained the judges, etc, so that I could then produce the competitions. Our agreement was that the rules could only be changed in the summer, and had to be consistent for the entire season. In PFA's first year, winter of '74/'75, we produced 8 competitions, 4 in the US, 3 in Europe and 1 in Canada with a total of about a half-million in prize money (not bad at the time.) (Plus some regional "ingress" competitions to allow new competitors entry.) We did the same thing in '75/'76. However, the wheels started coming off in '76/'77 due to liability and maturity issues. The sport was too new and too different (ballet?) at the time and the establishment (racers, ski instructors, long-ski devotees) did not like it. Many hated it. It had never had a youth program, or coaches, let alone any discipline. The resorts banned inverted aerials and without that there was no national TV. So the professional competitions in the US petered out, but some of the competitors started camps and youth programs and grew it from the ground up, which is really what it needed to gain credibility. Amateur competitions continued, ISF sanctioned it, inverted aerials were restored and the rest as they say is well documented history. The best writing that I know of regarding the origins of freestyle skiing can be found in the July 1976 (I think -- Donnie Osmand on the cover) issue of Rolling Stone Magazine, article by Lucian Truscott IV. It is very comprehensive coverage of the origins of the sport.

The cost of a Freestyle watch varies greatly, depending on the Model, though it averages at around $65. It is possible to find some Freestyle watches at $50 dollars, though the top range can cost up to $120.

Freestyle skiing (aerials, ballet, moguls) debuted as a demonstration sport at the 1988 Games in Calgary. At the 1992 Games, moguls was a medal event and aerials and ballet were still demonstration events. Ballet was dropped from the 1994 Games and aerials became a medal event.

Depends on what event of Freestyle Skiing it is.

The constant movement of the legs in the Moguls.

The tricks are the hardest in Aerials.

And getting a good start in Ski Cross.

when he was 12

You stare at the Black Diamond run in awe and excitement. It is steep and full of moguls. Moguls are large bumps and craters in the ski hill. You need to ski them properly or you are going to crash big time. The main thing is to keep your knees bent to prevent catching air. You also want to keep your core center in balance and use your poles and arms for additional balance. If you have seen this event on TV you will notice that the upper half of their body barely moves while their knees are bent to absorb any shocks. Professional mogul skiers also tend to have extensive knee problems. Avoid leaning back on your heels. When you do this you are setting yourself for take off up into the air. Also avoid leaning to far forward or you will fall head first into a mogul. Good luck!

You might be thinking of professional skiing.

As in the Olympics, Freestyle skiing is a discipline which contains a:

Mogul event

Areial event

Ski-cross event

So really, mogul skiing is a type of freestyle skiing.

Alpine Skiing There are four disciplines-Slalom, Giant Slalom, Super Combined, and Super G

Men and Women

Gold, Silver, Bronze

So, 24 total medals given out for Alpine

In most big competitions (Winter X, Dew Tour, Olympics, etc.), the tricks you usually find guys throwing that are scoring the highest points are clean doubles (Dub cork 12 & variations, switch double variations, double misty variations, etc.). Triples have been getting more and more popular over the last 2-3 years starting when Sammy Carlson threw the first triple rodeo and Bobby Brown threw the first triple cork. Those are the tricks that typically score highest for jumps in slopestyle competitions or in big air competitions.

On the jib side of slopestyle competitions (boxes, rails, bonks, tubes), riders get higher scores based on spins/flips they do on and off of the jib and what variations of spins or control (pretzeling) they do on the jib.

Edward H. Best was the founder and owner of a manufacturing company in Boston, which began its operation in 1888. E.H. Best & Co. had a location on Purchase Street in downtown Boston; it was mainly known for textiles, but also seems to have sold certain items to printing plants; and in addition, Best & Co. made advertising knives engraved with the company's name. Some of these pocket-sized knives are still for sale on sites like eBay. Mr. Best died in 1935 but his company continued on.

skiing is.........

going down hill on snow using skies to guid you

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