Talk:Freeskiing

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The term "freeskiing" has been abandoned by the snow sports community that is being explained here. It has since been split into two disciplines, New school skiing and Backcountry skiing or Big Mountain Skiing. The term "freeskiing" is now used exclusivley by the FIS to describe its aerials, moguls, and offpiste skiing. The main difference is the rules. The FIS has a governing body which limits the number of spins and flips in aerials and mogul comps, while new school has no governing body or rules regarding what tricks can/cannot be attempted.Zzz345zzz 18:06, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Not Really

Not Really (e.g. The U.S. Open Freeskiing Championships). Freeskiing is still very much a term used (albeit loosely) to describe this particular type of skiing that you see in films such as Teddy Bear Crisis and on the X-Games. Perhaps a better term would be "progressive skiing." seanoop

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This entire article is unbelievably pretentious. You'd think these guys had actually invented something rather than just applying better equipment to do what people have been doing, in the same terrain, for centuries. While the general facts seem sound, I don't even know where to start with toning down the rank adolescent kiddie testosterone stink here.

but honestly It is rather difficult to identify many inventions that are more than an application of new technology to an existing problem. the point with freeskiing is that the desire of athletes to redefine boundaries pushed the development of better ski technology.

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I'd agree that it requires a rewrite. It's incredibly skewed towards the USA. Anybody would think none of this was going on in Europe or elsewhere.

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MAJOR rewrite. I admit I have been rather heavy-handed in my editing, however I feel it is better to have a short, incomplete article than 2 pages of testosterone-charged, sensationalist, USA-centred, PoV fluff. If there are any specialists out there, the original version is in the history: Feel free to use it in order to help build a more complete article. Again, I think it is better to have an incomplete wikipedia than a bad wikipedia.

While it is agreed that much of the article that existed during March – July was heavily skewed toward the USA, that is not to say it should have remained that way. The article, as all wikipedia posts are, was a work in progress. Of course all other authors were encouraged to add additional FACTS, but to erase the entire article in favor of having some poser, who knows next to nothing about the history of the sport, erase it and start over again is beyond reproach. Those of you who contributed to the demise of a well designed and articulate overview of this dynamic sport should be ashamed. (added by 192.138.214.100, warned with npa template on user talk page)

This is an encyclopaedia, not an MTV documentary. And these pages are here to discuss and reach consensus about changes, not to make personal attacks. Yandman 06:54, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

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I have to say that I was a little bit amazed bz what Iáwe found. skiing is divided like this....: 1.alpine skiing 1.1 sl 1.2 GS 1.3 SG 1.4. DH

2. Nordic skiing... plus subdivision 3. ski jumping

4. freestyle skiing

4.1 aerials 4.2 moguls 4.3 ski balet 4.4 Half Pipe( is coming and related to snowboarding) 4.5 quarterpipe( is coming from newschool and snowboarding) 4.6 slopestyle ( is coming from mountainbike, BMX, Skateboarding, rollerskateing, Trotineta, skiing snowboarding- so is a mixture that ended up as a new aproaching of skiing& snowboarding) 4.7 Big air ( it difers from aerial becouse of the size of the jump and it comes from skiing – aerial(improvedbut invented by snowboarders as a subdivison of twintip snowboarding with triks and jumps ...I lived and did practicaly this changes....))

5. freeskiing 5.1 classic (going on a hill or cliff and skiing down the hill making turns(no jumps off the cliff)) 5.2 Direct skiing or chinese Downhill( skiing down the hill as fast as it's possible fastest down wins-- race the Gambler- in Transilvania and is mentioned in books in Transilvania in 1996 with two disciplines on piste ( also as the chikenrace) and offpiste ( later called chinese downhill by snowboarders but in 1996 it was called Direct)) 5.3 Big Mountain (classic + downhill + Jumps----- all in a run of a Off-piste skiing using the wild or precreated wild terrain) 5.4 back-country skiing --- skiing in remote areas not within ski area boundaries 5.5 side-country skiing---- terrain outside marked ski area boundaries yet accessible via ski lift. Typically sidecountry requires the skier to hike, skin, or climb within ski area boundaries to reach or return from the sidecountry area, or both. 5.6 slack-country skiing --- terrain outside of the ski area boundary that is accessed from a lift without having to use skins or bootpack. Usually this also includes area with access back to the lift as well. For purists, this could also include where people use a car as a shuttle. 5.7 front-country skiing ---off-trail within ski area boundaries where ski lifts and emergency services are close at hand you can find them on this 5.8 Free touring (I say this is a FREERIDE in skiing--- freeride word comes from Cicling in mountain tarrain adopted by snowboarders and then by newschoolers who are refering to this as a the frontcountry skiing, slackcountry skiing, sidecountry skiing but not the Backcountry skiing because the binding that is in backcountry is freeheel compatibility and the Park and pipe skis that you can use in both places by tipe ex: volkl wall, ledge , step , alley , wall mogul that are made in procentage of where you can use them (ledge beginner park and pipe but also usefull in sidecountry, slackcountry or frontcountry)) is the powder skiing with and on or in avalanches and crevases, wide skis- twintip or regular, rocker... but difers on the style and mannor of aproaching the mountain ride. 5.9 ski touring that is all offpiste terraint where there is no climbing involved(mostly in Transilvania we reffer to it as skiing in a freeride zone, offpiste, with cliffs and subalpine zone) 5.10 ski mountaineering is the alpine wilderness with climbing at extreme but only small amount of period withouth the skis on(this is how we reffer to it in Transilvania-- not ski extreme where you rappel or climb to ski , where because of the climbing area you dont necesarily need skins insteed you use climbing tools, axe etc)( now here also you can see that lately they are mostly climbers and skiers mountainbikers, hikers , nordic skiers, alpine skiers, trail runners etc. and not skiers, mountainbikers, rolerskaters , skaters , snowboarders who developed this sport type) 6.telemark skiing 6.1 traditional( oldschool freeheel on groomed terrain with alpine telemark race(also the ancient style -with one long pole )) 6.2 twintip telemark 6.3 freeheel slopestyle-- telemark binding on twintip skis used in park and pipe terrain 6.4 free telemark in powder 7. Monoski 8 motorised skiing(snowcat, heliski, ratrac)

snowboarding

1.freestyle 2. hard 3.splitboard — Preceding unsigned comment added by GBFGI (talk • contribs) 14:39, 2 June 2015 (UTC)

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Terminology

• Jibs = "things" that can be jibbed.

That doesn't really explain anything ! --195.137.93.171 (talk) 22:58, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

Section Slang is colloquially written and seems unencyclopedic

I think that this section first of all isn't written well, is unnecessary and doesn't seem to fit Wikipedia's notability standards. As well, the terms listed only encompass a few of the total. Not to mention, the rest of the article was full of vandalism. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nikolaiho (talk • contribs) 02:14, 22 February 2016 (UTC)