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History of the sport

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03gade
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For my public speaking class i am doing a presentation on newschooling and I was going to give a brief history. other than the wiki article and the Salomon freeski tv episode about the creation of the 1080's its hard to find a good history of freestyle skiing. Does anyone know of a good website with this sport's history?

Oct 4 2009 2:47PM
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Rachy
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well, if you really want to go into the history.... I'ld start with aerials. Watch the movie ski school.

Research line cause I know they were one of the first to do park specific stuff. I remember when they started making snow blades.... so funny.


The first twin-tip ski was the Olin Mark IV Comp introduced in 1974. The first company to successfully market a twin-tip ski was Salomon Group, with their 1080 ski in 1997.[1] LINE skis also evolved from twin tip ski boards and inspired the newschool freeskiing movement

thats a start.
Oct 4 2009 3:13PM
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ski@jaypeak2
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https://www.newschoolers.com/web/forums/forumthreads/cat_id/1/page/2200/

start there and go forward

Oct 4 2009 3:38PM
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BC.
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guessing to the new age progression of skis into the park etc. am i wrong ?
Oct 4 2009 5:57PM
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The_Oakley_Kid
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here is the 3 step history of skiing to date:

1) god was fucking this hella dirty bitty, went to jizz on here back, missed, it landed on earth instead... snow was created.

2) man loved snow, made a pair of skis, hiked to the top of the highest mountain got the purest snow possible, skied down and made ice cream out of it.

3) tom wallisch was born.
Oct 4 2009 6:34PM
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SteezeBall
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^... yup.
Oct 4 2009 6:35PM
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BWalmer
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I think the best way to see the history is to watch "Transitions" the best view of the history of the sport in film form, in my opinion.
Oct 4 2009 6:41PM
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nipples-the-cat
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i cant remember what it is called but the secound movie in the Tripple threat tour was all about the history of freeskiing.
Oct 4 2009 6:47PM
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Chaka
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theres a freesier issue with the history of free skiing and stuff mixed in with the history of the magazine, its has some good stuff though, its like the 10 years of freeskier edition or something but it will have almost everything you need
Oct 4 2009 6:55PM
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Chaka
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yep its called the 10th anniversary edition and you can download it here
http://freeskier.com/pages/currentIssue.php
Oct 4 2009 6:58PM
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VANULAR
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This guys rocking twin tips and skiing backwards in 1954

http://www.skipass.com/news/40845-tendances-des-skis-2010.html
Oct 4 2009 9:16PM
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BWalmer
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probably Transitions, cause I've seen EDIAS and Contrast, neither is "all about the history" but Transitions is.
Oct 4 2009 9:31PM
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03gade
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thanks everyone, yes by newschooling i mean modern day freestyle, not Olympic style jumps and that article will be a big help and I will definitely check out transitions, the fact that the history of the sport is so hard to uncover has made me that much more interested
Oct 4 2009 9:59PM
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p-fo
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dang thats old... the first thread is about boots. and about 90% have no replies. good find and good patience
Oct 4 2009 10:04PM
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BroBomb
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Line published a good history of their company. It is only one company's part in skiing's history, but given Line's roots, it gives a pretty good angle.
Oct 4 2009 10:12PM
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