Jp, Mike, and Vinnie, and a bunch of other guys on the canadian freestyle team decided they would rather ski in the snowboard park, and ski the pipe, and powder, and just have fun instead of ski bumps. they called themselves the new canadian air force, ironically they actually manage to stay in the air longer than most helicopters in the canadian military.
the new canadian air force started to push the sport and make up new tricks, they designed a full lenght ski with tips on each end, no companies would make it other than salomon, then salomon released the 1080, and the rest is history.