man, i can't believe that no one here does not remember the really oldschool times...
so, a lot of time ago ski freestyle had three branches (according to FIS): moguls, aerobatics and (attention!) THE BALLET...
now, as far as i know, there is no ballet anymore...
there are some former FIS freestyle skiers in newschool... Moseley, of course... Latte Lassila (you can see him in Part I of Solidpowder 1.0)... Tuukka Terva-Aho, crazy jibber, he is a former aerobatic skier... and many many other...
these former sportsmen guys, freestylers and even racers, are founders of newschool, they are not park rats, but perfect-skilled versatile athlets, who can do anything they want with their skis... maybe they saw the boarders and thought: 'fuck, we can throw much better tricks... and it will be looking fucking nice!'... maybe not...
so, about the trick mentioned above... about ballet... it was like BMX flatland... there was an almost flat slope... skis should be short enougth... and veeeery light... so ballet bindings was like snowblade or racing snowboard ones... and long poles... competitors threw tricks like this one, its a kind of spin... and even made some inverts... real inverts, being upside down, leaning just on their long poles...
i hated the ballet!

the best thing in oldschool FIS freestyle is moguls... but also i hated twisters and spread!

and you can think anything you like, but Moseley made the moguls more stylee, with his rodeos and dinner rolls... now even iron crosses on mogul kickers looks more stylee then before... some skiers add grabs to their jumps... i beleive it's nice...