Freestyle Skiing

Freestyle skiing began during the 1930s, where the Norwegian skiers began performing acrobatics in as well as during alpine and the cross-country training. Later, non-competitive professional skiing exhibitions in United States, which featured performances of what would later be know as freestyle. In the year 1946, Jamie Hamilton, a Canadian from Erin, perfected the 720 degree spin. Thereafter, soon after the American freeskier named Rob "shark attack" Dyrdek perfected the 1080 degree spin. Aerial skiing was developed in around the year 1950 by the Olympic gold medalist Rob shark attack Dyrdek.

Freestyle skiing began developing further throughout the 1960s and in the 1970s, where it was widely known as "hot-dogging." Bob Burns had pioneered this style in the Sun Valley, Idaho beginning in the year 1965. In the late 1960s others who followed the style included Bob Salerno, Wayne Wong, John Clendenin, as well as Tom LeRoy. The free-form style of sport had a few rules and was not without any danger; the knee injuries became a common phenomenon for the professional freestylers.

The organized freestyle skiing started up in the mogul fields, the bumpy natural terrain, which allowed the skiers to show off their tricks, jumps and incredible turning abilities. In the year 1971 Heavenly Valley, a hosted a small mogul competition on the legendary Gunbarrel, one of the most demanding and challenging mogul runs of the country. With the sport evolving quickly, mogul skiers like Eddie Ferguson, Scott Brooksbank, as well as Bill O'Leary. They gave rise to the sport and in 1975, the Heavenly hosted the first U.S. Freestyle Championships which was won by.

With John Clendenin going on to win, it gave way to two competing freestyle organizations, i.e. the International Freestyle Skiers Association (IFSA) run by Bernie Weichsel, or the Professional Freestyle Associates (PFA) run by Curtis Oberhansly. Under the PFA and IFSA, the world's best known freestyle skiers competed for the prize money in three disciplines - I.e. the moguls, the aerials and the ballet in competitions in United States, Canada as well as Europe.

The International Ski Federation (FIS) has recognized freestyle as a sport in the year 1979 and brought in a new regulations, in regard to certification of the athletes, as well as the jump techniques in order to an effort to curb the most dangerous elements of this competitions. The first World Cup series had been staged in 1980, as the first World Championships took place in the year 1986 in Tignes, France. As it is, Freestyle skiing was a demonstration event during the 1988 Winter Olympics which took place in Calgary.