Freestyle music in general is heavily influenced by Latin music, especially with respect to rhythms and horn and keyboard parts.

The single that many consider the first true Latin Hip-Hop record ( was not called Freestyle until much later ) was Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam's " I Wonder If I Take You Home.

Grade Examinations may be taken in Classical Ballet ( Cecchetti and Imperial methods ), Modern Theatre, Tap, National Dance, Classical Greek, South Asian ( Kathak and Bharatanatyam ), Modern Ballroom, Latin American, Disco Freestyle and Classical Sequence.

These tests may be taken in Modern Ballroom, Latin American, Sequence, Disco Freestyle, Rock ‘ n ’ Roll, Country & Western, Classical Greek, Tap and National.

The combination of Latin based Freestyle songs along with the station's original mainstream R & B sound was a success and was the station's signature for the decade.

Yet another story holds that the freestyle name evolved in Miami over confusion between two tracks produced by Tony " Pretty Boy " Butler, " Freestyle Express " by Freestyle and Debbie Deb's " When I Hear Music ".

Radio station WKTU began to hold " Freestyle Free for ALL " live concerts in 1996, and formerly held weekend freestyle nights hosted by Judy Torres.

Freestyle experienced another resurgence of popularity in the late 2000s, as older, well-known freestyle artists, producers and record labels released new music, and old and new freestyle artists performed at Philadelphia-area bars and night clubs.

; Freestyle Scootering: an action sport which involves using scooters to perform freestyle tricks, in a manner similar to skateboarding and BMX freestyle.

By 1975 there were two competing freestyle organizations, Professional Freestyle Associates ( PFA ) run by Curtis Oberhansly and the International Freestyle Skiers Association ( IFSA ) run by Bernie Weichsel.

Freestyle began to gain more popularity and companies started making backcountry style twin tips for skiers to push the limits of freestyle and take it away from the snow parks.

* Canadian Freestyle Ski Team-The Canadian Freestyle Ski Association, athlete bios and freestyle skiing explained.

* Digital Freestyle Skiing Digital Media Thesis project for Masters, multiple freestyle skiing videos of competitions from 1980's-2000's-moguls, aerials, ballet

Freestyle rap during hip-hop's old school had a different definition from the definition it has today-Kool Moe Dee refers to this earlier definition in his book, There's A God On The Mic: " There are two types of freestyle.

It was a freestyle of Cali Swag District's " Teach Me How to Dougie " & " Nick's Story " which was a Freestyle rap version of Slick Rick's " Children's Story ".

Freestyle boards began to diverge more noticeably in design from wave boards in the early part of the 2000 decade, as aerial tricks ( the Vulcan, Spock, Grubby, Flaka, and related New School maneuvers, almost all involving a jump-and-spin component ) became the predominant part of the freestyle repertoire, superseding Old School moves, in which the board did not leave contact with the water.

# Freestyle, with the limitation that freestyle does not include backstroke, breaststroke, or the butterfly.

* Freestyle means that in an event so designated the swimmer may swim any style, except that in individual medley or medley relay events, freestyle means any style other than backstroke, breaststroke or butterfly.

With cyphers in Hongdae playground and annual freestyle competition / events such as Freestyle Day and Freestyle One, freestyle rapping really caught on to the underground listeners.

Pump it Up has tried to cater more to Freestyle players than " technical " players with more freestyle-friendly charts, as a result the game has more of a culture in the freestyle and breakdancing disciplines.

The Freestyle Players Association ( FPA ) is the governing body of freestyle, “ dedicated to the growth of freestyle disc play as a lifetime recreation and competitive sport .” The organization is involved in international tournaments and rankings as well as education grants and promotional activities.

Freestyle features a dance tempo with stress on beats two and four ; syncopation with a bass line, lead synth, or percussion, and optional stabs of synthesized brass or orchestral samples ; sixteenth-note hi-hats ; a chord progression that lasts eight, 16, or 32 beats and is usually in a minor key ; relatively complex, upbeat melodies with singing, verses, and a chorus ; and themes about love or dancing.

Freestyle BMX is now one of the staple events at the annual Summer X Games Extreme Sports competition and the Etnies Backyard Jam, held primarily on the East and West coasts of the United States.

Freestyle skiing is a form of skiing which originally encompassed two disciplines: aerials, and moguls.

Ski cross is a new Olympic event and is currently under the banner of Freestyle skiing even though it is a race without a judged component.

The event is sponsored by the SHU Freestyle Club.

Additionally the city is the main location of the United States ' largest independent film festival, the Sundance Film Festival, home of the United States Ski Team, training center for members of the Australian Freestyle Ski Team, the largest collection of factory outlet stores in northern Utah, the 2002 Olympic bobsled / skeleton / luge track at the Utah Olympic Park, and golf courses.

* Urban / Street is essentially the same as urban BMX ( or Freestyle BMX ), in which riders perform tricks by riding on / over man made objects.

Freestyle one-step sparring is similar to one-step sparring but requires the karateka to be in motion.

Freestyle is a timed event which is judged.

Freestyle is about show and competitors are judged on their creativity.

Freestyle skydiving is a balletic, mostly individual style which seeks to extend the sport beyond the traditional belly-to-earth flat position used by most skydivers who make formations with their bodies.

A 48 splined spindle, such as from Profile Racing, Demolition, and Eighth Inch, is mostly used for BMX, unicycles, and fixed-gear Freestyle.

Playboating, also known as Freestyle or Rodeo, is a more gymnastic and artistic kind of kayaking.

Freestyle is a style of a cappella rap, with instrumental beats, in which rap lyrics are improvised, i. e. performed with no previously composed lyrics, or " off the top of the head ".

It is similar to other improvisational music such as jazz – Myka 9 of Freestyle Fellowship describes it as being " like a jazz solo " where there is a lead saxophonist acting as the improviser and the rest of the band providing the beat.

Freestyle Friday is a watered-down battle segment on BET's popular show 106 & Park.

Medley is a combination of four different swimming styles — Butterfly, Backstroke, Breaststroke, and Freestyle — into one race.

Freestyle skating is a form of inline skating performed on flatland and refers collectively to the disciplines for which competitions are organized by the International Freestyle Skaters Association.

Freestyle shortly thereafter gave way to mainstream pop artists such as MC Hammer, Paula Abdul, Bobby Brown, New Kids on the Block and Milli Vanilli, who used hip hop beats and electro samples, but in a mainstream form and with slicker production and MTV-friendly videos.

Shintai-shi ( New form poetry ) or Jiyu-shi ( Freestyle poetry ) emerged at this time.

Musical Freestyle or Musical Kur ( from German kür, " freestyle ") is a form of dressage movement setting the horse's " dance " to music.

* Playboating or Freestyle Kayaking ( formerly " Rodeo "), a form of whitewater paddling