Freestyle is an entire
genre of ways to ride a
BMX bike. It's pretty much anything that isn't
racing. This includes
flatland,
trails,
street,
park,and
vert. Freestyle began in the mid 1970s as something that
riders did between
races. From there it grew largely into flatland. From there it expanded to street and trails. Soon after people began riding in empty
swimming pools and vert was born. Park followed soon after.
The term freestyle, while it applies to all forms of riding other than racing, it is more commonly implied to mean only flatland riding.