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  2. Freeskiing - Wikipedia

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    Skier performing a mute grab Pictograms of Olympic sports - Freestyle skiing Belarus postal stamp souvenir sheet commemorating the 2006 Winter Olympics featuring freestyle skiing. 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 ...

  3. Candide Thovex - Wikipedia

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    Thovex's role in the project was to help build a jump on top of the Mont Blanc and then perform tricks off of it. It is a feat that French travel and photo magazine GEO says on their website is "unprecedented". [25] In an interview posted on the website of French lifestyle magazine Paris Match, Thovex said it was "the hardest jump of my life". [26]

  4. Tom Wallisch - Wikipedia

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    The video was produced by 4Bi9 Media. He pioneered the trend of becoming famous in free skiing by posting videos of his skills online. Typically, fame is achieved in the sport by winning competitions. Reversing this trend, however, Wallisch achieved success in competitions after becoming famous through video parts. [1]

  5. Aerial skiing - Wikipedia

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    Performing a somersault on skis has origins in 1906 with the development of "stunt skiing", [6] [7] [8] while aerials as a discipline was popularized in the 1950s by Olympic gold medalist Stein Eriksen. [9] [10] [11] Aerials events have featured since the first FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup in 1980 and FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships in 1986.

  6. Bobby Brown (freestyle skier) - Wikipedia

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    Bobby is known for his tricks in the air, He has successfully landed many triple corks. Brown had a web show called "Bobby's Life", [ 1 ] which features his life, friends, and skiing. In addition, Brown was the first skier to win two gold medals in the same Winter X Games.

  7. Freestyle skiing - Wikipedia

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    Freestyle skiing is a skiing discipline comprising aerials, moguls, cross, half-pipe, slopestyle and big air as part of the Winter Olympics.It can consist of a skier performing aerial flips and spins and can include skiers sliding rails and boxes on their skis.

  8. Freestyle skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia

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    Four freestyle skiing events were held at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, at the venue in Deer Valley. There were both men's and women's competition in both aerials and moguls events. In moguls , the athletes ski down a slope littered with moguls (bumps), attempting to get down in as fast a time as possible while also attempting to ...

  9. Mogul skiing - Wikipedia

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    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. [1] Internationally, the sport is contested at the FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships , and at the Winter Olympic Games .