Freestyle skiing is form of skiing which used to encompass two disciplines: aerials, and moguls. Besides the two disciplines mentioned earlier Freestyle Skiing now consists of Skicross, Half Pipe and Slope Style. Freeskiing is an olympic variety which shares characteristics with street skateboarding, bmx, and inline skating.

Freestyle skiing first began to be taken seriously in the 1960s and early 1970s, when it was often known as "hot-dogging." Bob Burns who later went on to create The Ski brand skis, pioneered this style in Sun Valley, Idaho, beginning in 1965. In the late 1960s other followers of the style included Wayne Wong, Flying Eddie Ferguson, Chico and Cokie Schuler and their mentor Chris Flanagan also, Roger Evans, John Clendenin, Hermann Goellner and Tom Leroy. Some people thought that this style of skiing was too dangerous and did not want it to be an Olympic sport. The free-form sport had few rules and was not without danger; knee injuries became a common phenomenon for professional freestylers.

Simon Francis Dumont (born July 9, 1986) is a U.S. freestyle skier.

Dumont is notable as one of the best freestyle skiers in the world today.^{[citation needed]} He is known for his amplitude in half-pipe competitions, airing easily up to 20 feet out of the pipe, and doing superman double fronts. Dumont had a rough season in 2006-07 when he overshot a 100-foot jump in Park City, Utah, by some eighty feet, landing flat, rupturing his spleen and breaking his pelvis in three places, although he was back up and skiing two months later.^{[citation needed]} In 2009 he also won the X Games Big Air competition stomping a double front flip.^{[citation needed]}

He has participated in many freestyle events, mostly big air and half-pipe, and was part of Team America for the Jon Olsson Super Sessions (JOSS) along with American freestyle skiers Tom Wallisch, and Alex Schlopy. They have withdrawn from all future JOSS events because of an argument with Olsson about the release date of their video for JOSS.

In 2008, Jon Olsson and Dumont announced their involvement in a new open freeskiing event, the North American Open, at Breckenridge, Colorado. He also participates in Jon Olsson's Super Sessions competition where skiers from each country compete to try to make the best ski video (JOSS).

Sean Michael McGowan (born December 21, 1980) is one of the few American writers to publish photographic novels (similar to photo novels in that they are both literary and graphic, yet distinguished from them by using photography instead of illustrations). His writing focuses on wide world views and macro issues from international politics to the neuroscience of warfare.

McGowan has become known for the release of his work into the public domain.

His most popular work,Click Click Snap (2007) was written during his travels through the Middle East, and is a modern example of literary nonfiction.