Freestyle skiing involves tricks while skiing, including mogul runs or from a ramp aerials. However, many Newschool skiers believe that traditional mogul and (aerials) do not acurately represent the true progression of "Freestyle skiing". These same "newschoolers" can often be found inside terrain parks skiing and proving to "gapers" that skiing is more than just going down the mountain.

In recent years, many ski mountains have also opened up "parks and pipes" where new school skiers can slide metal rails and get big air in the halfpipe. Freestyle skiers use a special ski that allows them to do such things and to land or go off a jump switch or backwards, this ski is called a twintip. Both ends of the ski have curved tips. Freestyle skiing also expands into the backcountry where many skiers can go and enjoy deep powder or hucking off big cliffs along with making their own jumps. Skiers in the backcountry will generally use a much wider and thicker ski to absorb large landings. These kind of skis are called fat skis.

The roots of the newschool skiing movement stem from the New Canadian Air Force, a group of skiers from the Canadian Mogul Team who started doing more tricks in the terrain parks.

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• Skiing and Skiing Topics