Freeskiing

Today I would like to introduce to You maybe a rare topic - an extreme sport which is called freeskiing. Freeskinng grew in the mid 1990 from a skiing branch wich was then called "Big Mountain". BM refers to mainly to skiingoutside of specialy prepared ski areas, often from extremely steep slopes that can be accessed only by hiking or a helicopter. Today freeskinng is mostly associated with doing tricks in specificaly designed area which is called snowpark. Snowparks include a variaty of jumps, boxes, rails and can have a well known half-pipe. Snowpark's original users were snowboarders, but today the number of freeskiers is rapidly growing, so there are even parks design specificaly for them.

Freeskiing is not much more expensive sport then ordinary skiing, all You
need to have is a pair skis which are called twintips, these are skiis which
have tips on their both ends to allow the skier to switch (which means to
ski backwards), takeoff or land back words when performing airborne
manouvers. A pair of binding used with twintips is usualy not much different
for ordinary ones, the only difference is that their tend to more robust.
Boots have also a specific design, usualy their are softer than normal ones.

What makes an extreme breakout of populatiry of this discipline is the fact
that it is much more safer than other extreme sports. Crashing on snow won't
hurt You much especially if You ware safety gear. There are even
professional freeskiers which haven't got a single lim broken.