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Speed skiing is the sport of skiing downhill in a straight line at as high a speed as possible, as timed over a fixed stretch of ski slope. There are two types of contest: breaking an existing speed record or having the fastest run at a given competition. Speed skiers regularly exceed 200 kilometres per hour (124 mph)
Slovenia's Andrej Šporn at the 2010 Winter Olympics downhill in a typical downhill body position. Downhill is a form of alpine skiing competition. Whereas the other alpine skiing events (slalom, giant slalom, super giant slalom, and combined) emphasize turning and technique, downhill emphasizes "the six components of technique, courage, speed, risk, physical condition and judgement ...
If one hits the water at an adequate speed (5 mph per 150 lb or 12 km/h per 100 kg of weight) and keeps the sled's throttle open, the track keeps the snowmobile on the surface of the water without sinking. [1] [2] If the rider backs out of the throttle or the sled bogs or floods out, the sled will sink. [3]
When you're queueing up for the lift, leave just enough space between the tips of your skis and the next person's. You wouldn't drive bumper-to-bumper, and you don't need to ski like that either.
[5] Accepted good forms include having knees bent and leaning backward into the ski boots. While turning, the thigh and hip areas of a powder skier's legs act as shock absorbers. Each shock-absorbing turn in powder creates a rebound by pushing on the snow to slow down and releasing that force to speed up. This type of momentum control is the ...
Skimboarding, also skimming, a sport which involves riding a board on wet sand or shallow water; Snowmobile skipping, also known as skimming, operating a snowmobile on water; Stone skimming, skipping or bouncing a stone on a water surface
Skis bend when edged (angling of the ski running base to the snow surface). Combined with sidecut, this creates a curved interface to the snow, and at a turn of that radius, the ski carves, rather than skids, with all points of the edge of the ski traveling along the same curve on the snow surface. These basic physical facts drive the radical ...
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