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You like the word freestyle?
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I've been seeing more and more people using the word "Freestyle" instead of "Freeskiing".
Personally, I love it.
In the old days, it was "Newschool Freestyle" which denoted the passion for doing tricks and playful shit on the mountain. We used Newschool simply to set us apart from "Classic" freestyle, which meant moguls, ballet and aerieals.
Freeskiing in my mind was always a blanket idea, about not being held to one specific type of skiing. I used it a lot more towards big mountain and shit to differentiate from racing.
In the end, it should just be skiing. As J says - its just skiing.
However, if you feel the need to tell people that you like to play on the mountain, god damn do I like Freestyle better than Freeskiing. At least there's roots in that.
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Personally I've always a associated freeskiing, as doing various tricks in the backcountry. And looked at freestyle skiing; as skiing done in the snow park or urban areas. Who knows why? but thats how I've have looked at it, since I started skiing.
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When I learned to ski 'freeskiing' to meant any unstructured time out skiing. Such as "if you get ready fast enough you'll have time for some 'freeskiing' before your lesson.
Freestyle meant doing tricks and stuff and people could have a freestyle lesson or freestyle competition or do some freestyle skiing when they are out freeskiing.
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My boy style got locked up a month ago
#Freestyle2015
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there needs to be a word to express that you can do multiple things in one run. its not like you pick a tree run to freeski, a bump run to do freestyle, and a park to jib stuff, you pick a run and do whatever you want on it
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Park Skiing is how I call it.
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I always viewed freeskiing as Big Mountain, BC, and Park combined. So a freeskier in my eyes is someone who did one or all of them. Freestyle I see as moguls. My uncle is a freestyle coach and coaches moguls and aerials and all that stuff so when someone says freestyle that's what I think of. But I don't really have a preference between words tbh. When I'm talking to someone who doesn't really get the whole skiing thing, I'll refer to is as freestyle since that would make more sense to them. And then I refer to it as freeskiing when I'm just talking to friends about it.
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I tell old people that I like street skiing. This is usually what happens:
They are like," What's that?"
I say,"It's like skateboarding but on skis."
"Oh so you're a snowboarder."
yes.
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I just say im a skier
fuck racers tho
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I prefer the term freestyle because it emphasizes individuality. Everyone is "free" to have their own "style" which is what differentiates us from racers.
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Easier just to tell people Im a ski racer
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snowboarding on skis is best for explaining to the idiocracy
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I prefer to call it hot dogging. It really confuses non skiers but still sounds like something everyone should do.
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you can call me susan if it makes you happy
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I personally consider myself and most everyone on here a "free skier" and that is the word I prefer when our sport is described. For me, when I hear the word "freestyle" I picture things like moguls, aerials, and overall a more competition oriented sport. However when I hear the word "freeskier" I think of skiers who lap the park, ski big tree lines, and butter around the mountain all in the same run. For that reason alone I consider myself, and the skiing I do, as "freeskiing".
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I like much more freeskiing, because it basically mean that youre free to do whatever type pf skiing you want...from park to backcountry, moguels, etc...
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no matter what term you use, it's still going to come down to having to explain that you do tricks on skis and sound like a loser
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I tell people I ski. And if people seem like they might be into it too I might mention I ski park and jump off things. Like the snowboarders do.
The term "Freestyle" is kinda fun, and kinda goofy. I like it but I don't see myself having a reason to use the term. I don't think I've ever used the word "Freeskiing" except in high school to tell my parents about why this type of skiing was special.
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Ya honestly i don't even bother explaining it anymore i just tell people i ski. But i agree Doug freestyle sounds better. More genuine
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Ballet needs to come back
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I say i ski and if my relatives mention racing or dong a ski team in college i make sure they know i am not about that at all
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I use "park skier" or "freestyle skiing" when I'm explaining it to my friends and if they ask what it is I just say "I ski the terrain park and hit rails" that usually covers it. When talking to friends that also freestyle ski like on here I like to refer to it as freestyle. A freeskier is more of a person that does jumps in the backcountry all the time and a big-mountain skier is just someone who just skis AK and stuff but doesn't do tricks.
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