Freestyle Skis

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Summary: Interested in freestyle skiing this winter? Learn how to pick freestyle skis with expert tips on ski equipment in this free winter sports video.

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Brad Disabella Brad Disabella is from Running Springs, California. He started skiing when he was 4 years old and has been active in the sport ever since. From the ages 7-14 ... read more

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Freestyle Skis

In this section I'm going to be introducing you to a basic freestyle ski. As you notice here as opposed to the other recreational and older style of skis, the tails in the back flail up so you can ride switch, allowing you to do some of the other tricks that skiers are doing nowadays. It allows you to ride backwards, it allows you to land backwards. If you'll notice, there's a difference between the edges right here. The edges on a freestyle ski are a lot thicker than the edges on a recreational or a racing ski. This is because a lot of the other tricks where you're sliding rails and sliding boxes you're putting so much of abuse, especially through here on the ski, that the ski companies are making the edges a little bit thicker to help with that, just so you're not breaking your edges the first day out. On older skis, if you were to try some of the rails and boxes tricks, you would definitely be breaking your edges really fast. So with a freestyle ski the edges are going to be a little bit sturdier. Now as you notice here, if you can see the sidewall, there's different levels of thickness and materials used. Skiers are now doing tricks like where you'll spin around, and it's kind of bringing in some of the old ballet skiing tricks with some of the new skiing tricks -they can do butters, you can switch around, you can press on your noses, press on your tails...so the freestyle ski is going to give you all of that in one package, allowing you to be able to do the tricks without having to worry about the performance of your product. You're just going to be able to go out there and have a good time, and learn all the tricks that you want and need to learn.