Although the Snow sports have always been present, the acrobatic ski sixty, as a development of Hotdog. You could say that the father of this sport is the Norwegian Stein Eriksen, a medalist at the 1952 Oslo Olympic Games, Gold in Slalom Gigante and Plata in Slalom. After these Olympics, Eriksen focused his attention on acrobatic skiing and created a show that included jumps in the air, for which he charged $ 1,000.
The first Freestyle competition was organized in 1966 by Peter Pinkham, which took place in Attitash, New Hampshire. Almost 40% of the event was developed with mandatory figures, while the rest of the competition was called freestyle or freestyle. A new sport was emerging, which would take that name.
Many companies have since joined this ski modality, in the portal you can consult some of the companies of Ski Freestyle that we please.
In the mid -70s his practice was already quite popular. At that time, the freestyle was known as hotdogging and those who practiced were divided into two sides: the organization's supporters and the defenders of the wild image. But soon they began to put lawsuits due to accidents, especially seriously injured athletes, and insurance companies turned their backs on Freestyle, which had a great downturn in the eighties.
In 1979 the FIS ( FederationInternational Ski ) recognized Freestyle as a ski modality and in 1983 the first tests of the World Cup in the United States were performed. In 1986 the first world championship in Tignes (France) took place.
These world championships were organized just in time to classify modalities of Ski
