Introducing that the snow sports have a very ancient origin, the acrobatic skiing has been practiced since 1930. The so-called freestyle has converted into a competition sport in the United States in the 60s, as an evolution of the discipline, known as "Hotdog".
can be said that the father of this sport is the Norwegian Stein Eriksen, winner of the gold medal in giant slalom and silver medal in slalom in the Oslo Olympic games of 1952. Following these Olympics Eriksen concentrated his attention on acrobatic ski and created a show (for which he earned 1,000 dollars a day) In the air with skis.
The first freestyle competition was organized in 1966 by Peter Pinkham and took place in Attitash, New Hampshire. Almost 40% of the event was based on the creation of mandatory standard figures, while the rest of the competition was called "freestyle". A new sport was being born!
In the 70s, his practice was already popular enough. In this era freestyle was known as hotdogging and those who practiced it divided into two great sides: the partridari of the organization and the defenders of the wild image. However, complaints for accidents began to be submitted, especially by seriously injured athletes, and the insurance companies turned their backs at the freestyle, which underwent a strong decrease in popularity in the 1980s.
In 1979 the FIS ( international ski federation ) recognized freestyle as a type of ski and in 1983 the first tests of the Cup of theWorld in the United States. In 1986 the first world championship took place in Tignes (France).
These world championships organized themselves just in time to classify types of skiing such as freestyle as a demonstration sport in the Calgary 88 Olympic games. Mogulli's discipline became Olympic in 1992 and that of Aerials in 1994.
