• That in the spring of 2011, the International Olympic Committee confirmed that ski halfpipe and ski slopestyle will make their Olympic debuts at the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia in 2011.
• That the Canadian Freestyle Ski Team … “the Canadian Air Force” … is the world leader in Freestyle skiing, winning more than 100 World Cup medals over the past four years? And more than 1,200 since the inception of the FIS World Cup in 1980.
• That the Canadian Team took home the prestigious FIS Nations’ Cup for the eighth year in a row last season, and the Canadian National Halfpipe Team won the crystal globe for that discipline.
• That Alex Bilodeau was the first Canadian to win an Olympic gold medal on Canadian soil — in moguls at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games.
• That recently retired mogul skier Jenn Heil won every major title available to her at least once in her incredible career – including Olympic Champion, World Cup Overall Champion, World Cup Mogul Champion and World Championship titles in both Single and Dual Moguls.
• That Canadians have won 67 World Championship medals since the first Freestyle FIS World Championships was held in Tignes, France in 1986? Last year in Deer Valley the team took home 12 medals at the World Championships.
• Canada currently has five reigning FIS World Champions are: Warren Shouldice (aerials), Jenn Heil (single and dual moguls), Alex Bilodeau (Dual Moguls), Mike Riddle (halfpipe) and Rosalind Groenewoud (halfpipe).
• That Canadian Freestyle athletes have won 12 Olympic medals in Aerials and Moguls since these disciplines were introduced to the Games as a demonstration sport in Calgary in 1988. Canadian medallists include aerialists: Jean-Marc Rozon, Lloyd Langlois, Phil Laroche, Nicolas Fontaine, Deidra Dionne and Veronica Brenner. Mogul medallists include: Jean-Luc Brassard, Jenn Heil and Alex Bilodeau.
• That Jean-Luc Brassard won the first gold medal ever by a Canadian man in skiing at the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer.
• That recently-retired Aerialist Steve Omischl won four FIS crystal globes, four World Championship medals and 41 FIS World Cup medals over the course of his career .
• That the Canadian men’s mogul trio of Alexandre Bilodeau, Pierre-Alexandre Rousseau and Vincent Marquis posted two historic podium sweeps in 2008-09? Once at Ski Mont-Gabriel, Québec and once in Are, Sweden. 
• That Freestyle aerialists do the most difficult gymnastic manoeuvres in any sport – up to five twists and three flips. And travel to 65 km/h and fly up to 20 metres high (that’s the equivalent of a six story building!)?
• That Freestyle mogul skiers cover 230-metre courses in about 25 seconds, about four moguls a second, at about a 28-degree incline, and do two aerial tricks during the course of their runs?
• That halfpipe competitors launch themselves up to 40 feet in the air, performing incredible acrobatic tricks like double-flips and triple spins.
• That ski slopestyle is the most accessible of the freestyle disciplines, because you can find slopestyle features, like jumps and rails, in ski terrain parks at most ski resorts.
• That the world’s best-known Freestyle Halfpipe skier is Canada’s own X-Game-winning Sarah Burke?
• That more than 25 countries have freestyle skiing programs? That Freestyle has the only World Cup ski events held in China?
• That this year you can watch the best Freestyle athletes in the world at Ski Mont-Gabriel, QC on January 14 & 15 and at Winsport’s Canada Olympic Park, AB on January 28 & 29.