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Freeskiing

Index Freeskiing

Freeskiing, or new school skiing is a specific type of alpine skiing, which involves tricks, jumps, and terrain park features, such as rails, boxes, jibs, or other obstacles. [1]

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Alpine skiing

Alpine skiing, or downhill skiing, is the pastime of sliding down snow-covered slopes on skis with fixed-heel bindings, unlike other types of skiing (cross-country, Telemark, or ski jumping) which use skis with free-heel bindings.

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Aspen/Snowmass

Aspen Snowmass is a winter resort complex located in Pitkin County in western Colorado in the United States.

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Avalanche

An avalanche (also called a snowslide) is a cohesive slab of snow lying upon a weaker layer of snow in the snowpack that fractures and slides down a steep slope when triggered.

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Backcountry skiing

Backcountry skiing (US), also called off-piste (Europe) or out-of-area, is skiing in the backcountry on unmarked or unpatrolled areas either inside or outside a ski resort's boundaries.

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Bill Briggs (skier)

Bill Briggs (William Morse Briggs) is the director of the Great American Ski School, formerly located at Snow King Mountain in Jackson, Wyoming in the United States.

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Bobby Brown (freestyle skier)

Bobby Brown (born June 5, 1991) is an American freeskier specializing in slopestyle and big air competitions.

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Breckenridge Ski Resort

Breckenridge Ski Resort is an alpine ski resort in the western United States, in Breckenridge, Colorado.

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C. R. Johnson

Charles Russell Johnson III (August 10, 1983 – February 24, 2010) was a professional skier and a pioneer in the freeskiing movement.

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Candide Thovex

Candide Thovex (born 22 May 1982) is a French professional skier, filmmaker and entrepreneur.

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Chris Davenport

Chris Davenport, of Aspen, Colorado, is considered one of the world's most accomplished big-mountain skiers and mountaineers.

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Doug Coombs

Doug Coombs (September 24, 1957 – April 3, 2006) was an American alpine skier and mountaineer who helped to pioneer the sport of extreme skiing, both in North America and worldwide.

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Eric Hjorleifson

Eric Hjorleifson (born 14 March 1983) is a professional freeskier.

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Eric Pollard (skier)

Eric Pollard is an American snow freeskier and film editor from Welches, Oregon and currently resides in the Hood River region of Oregon.

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Extreme skiing

Extreme skiing is performed on long, steep (typically from 45 to 60+ degrees, or grades of 100 to 170 percent) slopes in mountainous terrain.

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FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup

The FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup is an annual freestyle skiing competition arranged by the International Ski Federation since 1980.

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FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships

The FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships is the world championship organized by the FIS for Freestyle Skiing.

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Freeriding

Freeriding is a style of snowboarding or skiing performed on natural, un-groomed terrain, without a set course, goals or rules.

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Freestyle skiing

Freestyle skiing is a skiing discipline comprising aerials, moguls, cross, half-pipe and slopestyle as part of the Winter Olympics.

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Freestyle skiing at the Winter Olympics

Freestyle skiing has been contested at the Winter Olympic Games since the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville, France.

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Glen Plake

Glen Plake (born September 9, 1964) is a US National Ski Hall of Fame skier.

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Guerlain Chicherit

Guerlain Chicherit (born 20 May 1978 in Paris) is a French rally driver and a professional skier, four times world champion in freeriding (1999, 2002, 2006 and 2007).

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Half-pipe

A half-pipe is a structure used in gravity extreme sports such as snowboarding, skateboarding, skiing, freestyle BMX, skating and scooter riding.

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Half-pipe skiing

Half-pipe skiing is the sport of riding snow skis on a half-pipe.

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Henrik Harlaut

Henrik Harlaut (born 14 August 1991) is a Swedish freestyle skier.

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IF3 International Freeski Film Festival

The International Freeski Film Festival (iF3) is a film Festival dedicated to screening and rewarding freeskiing and snowboarding movies.

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Ingrid Backstrom

Ingrid Backstrom is an internationally ranked professional skier from Seattle, Washington.

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International Olympic Committee

The International Olympic Committee (IOC; French: Comité International Olympique, CIO) is a Swiss private non-governmental organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland, which is the authority responsible for the modern Olympic Games.

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International Ski Federation

The Fédération Internationale de Ski (FIS; English: International Ski Federation) is the world's highest governing body for international winter sports.

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Janette Hargin

Janette Hargin (born 4 October 1977, Stockholm) is a Swedish former alpine skier who competed in the 2002 and 2006 Winter Olympics.

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Jesper Tjäder

Jesper Tjäder (born 22 May 1994) is a Swedish freestyle skier.

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Jon Olsson

Jon Olsson Delér is a professional freeskier and alpine ski racer, born in Mora, Sweden (17 August 1982).

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Jonny Moseley

Jonathan William Moseley (born August 27, 1975), better known as Jonny Moseley, is an American freestyle skier and television presenter.

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Jossi Wells

Josiah "Jossi" Wells (born May 18, 1990) is a freestyle skier who represented New Zealand at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

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JP Auclair

Jean-Philippe Auclair (August 22, 1977 – September 29, 2014) was a Canadian freeskiier.

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Justin Dorey

Justin Dorey (born August 17, 1988) is a Canadian freestyle skier.

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Kaya Turski

Kaya Turski (born May 3, 1988) is a Canadian freestyle skier.

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Kevin Rolland

Kevin Rolland (born 10 August 1989) is a French freestyle skier.

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Kristi Leskinen

Kristi Leskinen (born February 10, 1981 in Uniontown, Pennsylvania) is an American freestyle skier.

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Line Skis

Line Skis is a company building skis and skiing equipment (poles, clothing, accessories).

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List of Olympic venues in freestyle skiing

For the Winter Olympics, there are nine venues that have been or will be used for freestyle skiing.

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Mammoth Mountain Ski Area

Mammoth Mountain Ski Area is a large ski resort in the western United States, located in eastern California along the east side of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in the Inyo National Forest.

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Mark Abma

Mark Abma (born March 3, 1980) is a professional freeskier from Whistler Blackcomb, British Columbia.

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Mike Riddle

Mike Riddle (born June 17, 1986) is a Canadian freestyle skier.

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Mogul skiing

Mogul skiing is a freestyle skiing competition consisting of one timed run of free skiing on a steep, heavily moguled course, stressing technical turns, aerial maneuvers and speed.

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Mount Snow

Mount Snow (previously known as Mount Pisgah) is a mountain resort and ski area in southern Vermont located in the Green Mountains.

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Nick Goepper

Nicholas Charles Goepper (born March 14, 1994) is an American freestyle skier.

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Noah Bowman

Noah Bowman (born May 8, 1992) is a Canadian freestyle skier.

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Olympic Games

The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (Jeux olympiques) are leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions.

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Outline of skiing

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to skiing: Skiing is a recreational activity using skis as equipment for traveling over snow.

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Park City Mountain Resort

Park City Mountain Resort is a ski resort in the western United States in Park City, Utah, located east of Salt Lake City.

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Piste

A piste is a marked ski run or path down a mountain for snow skiing, snowboarding, or other mountain sports.

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Poley Mountain

Poley Mountain is located 10 km outside of Sussex, New Brunswick, Canada.

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Russ Henshaw

Russ Henshaw (born 7 June 1990) is an Australian freestyle skier.

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Sammy Carlson

Sammy Carlson (born January 11, 1989) is an American freeskier specializing in slopestyle competitions.

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Sarah Burke

Sarah Jean Burke (September 3, 1982 – January 19, 2012) was a Canadian freestyle skier who was a pioneer of the superpipe event.

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Scot Schmidt

Scot Schmidt (born July 21, 1961, in Helena, Montana) is a professional extreme skier.

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Sean Pettit

Sean Martin Pettit (born July 27, 1992) is a Canadian freeskier born in Ottawa, Ontario.

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Seth Morrison (skier)

Seth Morrison (born November 30, 1973) of Summit County, CO is a professional skier.

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Shane McConkey

Shane McConkey (December 30, 1969 – March 26, 2009) was a professional skier and BASE jumper.

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Simon Dumont

Simon Francis Dumont (born July 9, 1986) is an American freestyle skier.

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Ski

A ski is a narrow strip of semi-rigid material worn underfoot to glide over snow.

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Ski ballet

Acrostic (later renamed ski ballet) was a freestyle skiing discipline from the late-1960s until the year 2000.

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Ski binding

A ski binding is a device that connects a ski boot to the ski.

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Ski boot

Ski boots are footwear used in skiing to provide a way to attach the skier to skis using ski bindings.

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Ski cross

Ski cross is a type of skiing competition.

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Ski jumping

Ski jumping is a winter sport in which competitors aim to achieve the longest jump after descending from a specially designed ramp on their skis.

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Skis Rossignol

Skis Rossignol S.A., or simply Rossignol, is a French manufacturer of alpine, snowboard, and Nordic equipment, as well as related outerwear and accessories, located in Isère, France.

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Slopestyle

Slopestyle is a winter sport in which athletes ski or snowboard down a course including a variety of obstacles including rails, jumps and other terrain park features.

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Snowboarding

Snowboarding is a recreational activity and Olympic and Paralympic sport that involves descending a snow-covered slope while standing on a snowboard attached to a rider's feet.

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Sochi

Sochi (a) is a city in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, located on the Black Sea coast near the border between Georgia/Abkhazia and Russia.

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Sylvain Saudan

Sylvain Saudan (born on 23 September 1936 in Lausanne, Switzerland) is an extreme skier, dubbed "skier of the impossible." He is noted for skiing down large and steep mountains, including those in the Himalayas.

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Tanner Hall

Tanner Hall (born October 26, 1983), of Kalispell, Montana is a freeskier.

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Terrain park

A terrain park is an outdoor recreation area containing terrain that allows skiers, snowboarders and snowbikers to perform tricks.

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TJ Schiller

Thomas James "TJ" Schiller (born October 17, 1986) is a Canadian freestyle skier.

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Tom Wallisch

Tom Wallisch (born July 22, 1987 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a professional freeskier.

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Torin Yater-Wallace

Torin Yater-Wallace (born December 2, 1995, in Aspen, Colorado) is a freestyle skier from the United States.

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Twin-tip ski

A modified version of their alpine counterparts, twin-tip skis are designed to enable a skier to take off and land backward while jumping and to ski backwards (switch) down a slope.

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United States Ski and Snowboard Association

U.S. Ski & Snowboard is the national governing body for Olympic skiing and snowboarding.

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Urban area

An urban area is a human settlement with high population density and infrastructure of built environment.

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Whistler Blackcomb

Whistler Blackcomb is a ski resort located north of Vancouver, in British Columbia, Canada.

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X Games

The X Games is an annual extreme sports event hosted, produced, and broadcast by ESPN.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeskiing

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