Skiing Wallpaper, #1479

Snow Skiing is a group of sports utilizing skis as primary equipment. Skis are used in conjunction with boots that connect to the ski with use of a binding. Although snowboarding shares the general characteristics of Skiing sports, it evolved from surfing and skateboarding and so is not considered a type of Skiing. Alpine Freestyle: This kind of Skiing could be called acrobatics on skis. Alpine freestyle was pioneered by Stein Eriksen in 1962. It developed in the 1970s into a style called Hotdogging. More recently Alpine freestyle has evolved into the current style called Jib Skiing or freestyle Skiing, a new style of Skiing that started in the late 1990s. In this type of Skiing, skiers use jumps also called kickers,or rails to do urban style aerial tricks.