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Edgework: Take a short break from backcountry/helicopter skiing and give the next series of videos on skiing technique a look or two. You can’t do the backcountry or big snow without good technique–to think otherwise is to court (and probably find) disaster. First up: the ski pivot. The Fine Print: Embed courtesy of YouTube(thanks …
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Press Clippings: With Women’s Figure Skating now moving to center stage as the Sochi Olympics wind down, it’s a perfect time to look at Yuna Kim’s Gold Medal Winning performance from Vancouver in 2010. There has been so much attention focused on the American women (Ashley Wagner and Gracie Gold) and Russia’s Julia Lipnitskaia, that …
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Press Clippings: The U.S. is missing Lindsey Vonn, one of our very best women skiers, at the Sochi Olympics. Vonn suffered a pair of back to back knee injuries in training that took her out of the 2014 games, but even though she’s not at Sochi, it’s always good to remember just how great and …
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Press Clippings: Ski Cross is considered a “freestyle skiing” discipline (i.e. like slope style, aerials) even though it also requires the skills typically associated with Alpine Skiing (expert navigation down a course and timed competition against other skiers). A ski cross course includes natural downhill runs combined with jumps and other man-made obstacles. On television, …
Press Clippings: Curling is–surprise–one of the most popular Olympic sports, even though it may not be one of the most widely or instantly understood. The best analogy for curling is shuffleboard. The idea is simple: slide a highly polished stone (known as a “rock”) across a sheet of ice and into a target area. But …
Press Clippings: Ted Ligety is one of the top U.S. Alpine skiers and one of our best hopes for an Alpine medal in the Sochi Olympics. Ligety was 2006 Olympic Gold Medalist in the combined and four time World Cup giant slalom champion. To give you some perspective of what’s involved in the alpine skiing …
Press Clippings: The next wave of endorsement queens is headed your way from Sochi. Although the formal name in the United States is the Women’s Figure Skating Competition at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, we in America already know–or will soon know–these competitors as endorsers for everything from breakfast cereal to energy drinks to airlines. Hey, …
Press Clippings: The Giant Slalom, along with slalom, is considered one of the two technical disciplines of Alpine skiing. The difference between the two is that slalom gates are very closely spaced, requiring extremely quick changes in direction and giant slalom (GS) gates are more widely spaced and taken at a higher speed. Some experts …
Deep Background: In the previous post, I mentioned the legendary Cresta Run, (the previous link to the wiki is repeated) located in St. Moritz, Switzerland. It was, for a time, the only place where the skeleton sleds ran (1928 and 1948) as an Olympic sport;prior to Olympic inclusion (Skeleton became a permanent Winter Olympic Sport …
Press Clippings: The Olympic Skeleton run is a more traditional type of sledding in which the athlete rides lying face down on a prepared sled run. The sport was put into the Olympics on a permanent basis in 2002; previously, it had been featured in the 1928 and 1948 Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland only. …