Freestyle Skiing

Freestyle skiing began in 1930, when Norwegian skiers began the implementation of acrobatics as well as alpine skiing and training. Later, not knowing the competitive professional skiing exhibitions in the United States, the performances, what would be presented as a freestyle. In 1946, Jamie Hamilton, a Canadian of Erin, the perfect rotation of 720 degrees. Then, shortly after the American freestyle skiers named Rob "Shark Attack" Dyrdek completed its 1080 levelSpin. Sci air has been developed around the year 1950, the Olympic champion Rob Dyrdek shark attack.

Freestyle skiing began to develop further in 1960 and 1970, where he was commonly known as "Hot Dog". Bob Burns had paved way this style in Sun Valley, Idaho since 1965. At the end of 1960 were among others who have followed the style of Bob Salerno, Wayne Wong, John and Tom Clendenin LeRoy. The style of this free-form sport had few rules andwas not without risks, the knee injury was a general phenomenon of professional freestyler.

organized in freestyle moguls started to show the natural rough terrain, skiers allowed their tricks, jumps and amazing ability to turn. In 1971, Heavenly Valley, hosted a little race at the legendary tycoon Gunbarrel, one of the most demanding and challenging moguls of the country. With the sport has developedquickly, skiers are open and Eddie Ferguson, Scott Brooks Bank, and Bill O'Leary. They gave birth to this sport and in 1975, Heavenly hosts the first American championship, which was won by Freestyle.

John Clendenin going to win, there were two competing against organizations that manage the International Freestyle Freestyle Skiers Association (IFSA) Bernie Weichsel, or run the Freestyle Professional Associates (FPA) by Curtis Oberhansly. Under the PFA and IFSA, thefreestyler in the world most famous competition for the prize money in three events - the bumps, jumps and dance competitions in the United States, Canada and Europe.

The International Ski Federation (FIS) in 1979, recognized as a sport freestyle and led to new rules regarding certification of athletes and jump techniques, an attempt to curb the most dangerous elements of such events. The firstWorld Series Cup was staged in 1980, when the first world championships were held in 1986 in Tignes, France. It seems that in a demonstration of freestyle skiing at the Winter Olympics in Calgary in 1988 was over the position.