{"id":1644,"date":"2009-02-18T14:24:19","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T22:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1644"},"modified":"2009-03-17T20:02:50","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T03:02:50","slug":"physical-culture-gear-test-junior-twin-tip-skis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1644","title":{"rendered":"Skiing &#8211; Physical Culture | Gear Test, Junior Twin-Tip Skis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1645\" title=\"kids-ski\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/02\/kids-ski.jpg\" alt=\"kids-ski\" width=\"600\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/kids-ski.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/kids-ski-150x123.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>FREESKIING has been credited with making skiing cool again \u00e2\u20ac\u201d particularly among the junior set, which had been lured by the snowboard\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s renegade appeal. Thanks to twin-tip skis, which are rounded and upturned on both ends, freeskiers can land on the snow facing forward or backward, making it possible to do the flashy jumps and daring tricks of the snowboard on ungroomed backcountry snow, as well as on the pipes and jumps of terrain parks.<\/p>\n<p>Overall sales of skis are in decline but freeskis are \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a very hot category right now,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Kelly Davis, research director for the trade group SnowSports Industries America &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/slideshow\/2009\/02\/18\/fashion\/20090219-physical-slideshow_index.html\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FREESKIING has been credited with making skiing cool again \u00e2\u20ac\u201d particularly among the junior set, which had been lured by the snowboard\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s renegade appeal. Thanks to twin-tip skis, which are rounded and upturned on both ends, freeskiers can land on the snow facing forward or backward, making it possible to do the flashy jumps and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,4,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skiing","category-snow","category-snowboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1644"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4593,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions\/4593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}