freestyle skiing: Quick Facts

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This educational diagram compares aerials and moguls freestyle skiing courses, showing course layouts, features like ramps and moguls, and includes labeled illustrations of essential equipment such as freestyle boots, step-in bindings, skis, and ski poles, along with a skier for scale.

Freestyle skiing equipmentFreestyle skis are generally shorter than Alpine skis in order to allow a skier to execute turns more quickly. Aerials are performed without poles. Freestyle boots and bindings are essentially the same as those used for Alpine skiing.

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