LEXICON: freestyle

A term previously used instead of freeriding, subsequently reappropriated as a banner for several other disciplines. Namely as Winter Olympics disciplines - aerials, moguls, cross, half-pipe, slope-style and big air. Freestyle was initially coined to describe the skiing equivalent of boarding's FreeRide, which came into being as a response to the highly regimented world of ski competition that dominated Snowsports at that time. Overtime Skiing started to adopt the Boarding term FreeRide, the final synchronisation took place when the Boarding Freeride World Tour (FWT) absorbed the Freeskiing World Tour.