Help me find the history of freeskiing

http://jskis.com/pages/about
Good video on Jason Levinthal's contributions in that link.

Apparently this "forty minute long documentary will give you ... a glimpse of the past, present, and future of Freeskiing"

I'm sure it's got lots of great info about the history of freeskiing as that's how it was pitched, and it would seem disingenuous for the result to be anything otherwise.

https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/689742/FREE---Freeskiing-s-Journey-To-Sport-s-Biggest-Stage

In all seriousness though, I think one of the things about freeskiing and its history is that it's all kind of informal. There isn't one unifying encyclopaedia on it, or like a "history of freeskiing" laid out all in one place.

I'd try to find some old copies of Powder or FREEZE, or anything like that you can get your hands on to see the progression in real time. Some of that would be online somewhere. Also Ethan Stone wrote a pretty banger piece on freeskiing in the NS magazine last year. Idk if that's online, but it's definitely worth reading and would be helpful for you I think. Also BroBomb's Know Your Roots series has a lot of good info although it's pretty informal (see:http://brobomb.com/2010/04/know-your-roots-parkasaurus/#more-1520) - also the site might be fucked right now. That's a whole other story.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeskiing

1. Go to google
2. Type in "history of freeskiiing"
3. $$$

If you're looking into the history of freeskiing you might want to look way back to when resorts started getting introduced in the states as a way to draw tourist to mining communities that were dying off.

Check out The Devil's Bargain, it's a pretty damn interesting book as it is.

https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/644170/EP16-Salomon-FreeskiTV---History-of-Freeski

Watch hotdog, andwarren millers 50, both great historical freeski films. You can find hot dog on YouTube, and 50 will probably be at your local library. The orginal start of skiing as I understand it was created in Asia as a mode of transportation for Mongols. It can also be seen in early Northern European countries where explorers and travelers would need to stay above the snow. In the early 1900's we see it first becoming a recreational sport after WWII when our troops deployed in snowy regions took there wartime transportation of skiing to our local slopes. Sun Valley Idaho has a rich history in our skiing world as a small ski town located on the first couple of Union Pacific lines. As time progressed we see a movement from skiers like Jim Mcconkey who pushed the sport forward. in the film hot dog we see how our 1980's skiing has affected us today. Skiers like JP Auclair, Shane Mcconkey, Scott Gaffeny, Glen Plake, and Johnny Mosely also pushed our sport forward with a radical 80's And 90's style and new tricks. With the invention of the snowboard a new era of new schoolers has pushed us forward as well as the creation of "snowboard parks" that has evolved into what we know today as the terrain parks.

Just look up if you really want to know, the MSP tribute to Shane is a good movie to show our rich skiing history as well as Suoerheros of stoke, two great movies.

The North Face: The Rise: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb8M2N__cpL_DJI6cGiQPdosimjSc-0YY

Are you fucking kidding me? Use the god damn search bar.

https://www.newschoolers.com/forum/thread/795225/EVOLUTION-OF-FREESKIING

https://www.newschoolers.com/forum/thread/782089/History-of-Freeskiing--

https://www.newschoolers.com/forum/thread/774574/A-little-mogul-history---

https://www.newschoolers.com/forum/thread/772969/History-of-Our-Sport

https://www.newschoolers.com/forum/thread/762453/History-of-Freeski---At-a-Glance---Printed-Piece

https://www.newschoolers.com/forum/thread/756174/An-Insight-into-the-history-of-modern-day-freeskiing-Volume-Video-Mag

https://www.newschoolers.com/forum/thread/747651/History-of-park-skiing

https://www.newschoolers.com/forum/thread/733615/Freestyle-skiing-history

Watch Teton Gravity's The Dream Factory. Lot of history there