The sport of ski jumping has seen the use of numerous different techniques, or "styles", over the course of its more than two-hundred-year history. Depending...
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Ski jumping is a winter sport in which competitors aim to achieve the farthest jump after sliding down on their skis from a specially designed curved ramp...
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the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup, the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships (odd-numbered years only), the FIS Ski Jumping Grand Prix, and the FIS Ski Flying...
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In aviation, a ski-jump is an upwardly curved ramp that allows a fixed-wing aircraft to take off from a runway that is shorter than the aircraft normally...
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skiing is similar to the original form of skiing, from which all skiing disciplines evolved, including alpine skiing, ski jumping and Telemark skiing...
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Norwegian Army Mechanized Infantry unit Telemark skiing, a skiing technique Telemark landing, a ski jumping technique Telemark Lodge in northern Wisconsin The...
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classic technique. Skating skis are shorter than classic skis and do not need grip wax. The skating technique is used in biathlons. Ski jumping skis are long...
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skiing Skijoring Ski jumping (ski-flying) Ski touring Dry ski slope Grass skiing Sand skiing Roller skiing Water skiing Stem techniques The Snowplough - (also...
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world. Ski acrobatics have been exhibited since 1906. Aerial skiing was popularized by John Rudd at the 1908 National Championship Ski Jumping Tournament...
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the turn in ski races, which included cross country, slalom, and jumping, in Norway around 1868. Sondre Norheim also experimented with ski and binding...
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competitive water skiers. These include speed skiing, trick skiing, show skiing, slaloming, jumping, barefoot skiing and wakeski. Similar, related sports are...
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alpine (downhill) and Nordic (cross-country, Telemark, and ski jumping) styles of skiing. Until the point of divergence in the mid-20th century, bindings...
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BASE jumping (/beɪs/) is the recreational sport of jumping from fixed objects, using a parachute to descend to the ground. BASE is an acronym that stands...
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Nordic combined (redirect from Nordic combined skiing)
combined is a winter sport in which athletes compete in cross-country skiing and ski jumping. The Nordic combined at the Winter Olympics has been held since...
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Jens Weißflog (category FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in ski jumping)
the unified Germany in late 1990, nor the change in ski jumping techniques from the parallel technique to the V-style around 1993 stopped his success. In...
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Ski flying is a winter sport discipline derived from ski jumping, in which much greater distances can be achieved. It is a form of competitive individual...
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Telemark, or ski jumping), which use skis with free-heel bindings. Whether for recreation or for sport, it is typically practiced at ski resorts, which...
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Skate skiing is a technique in cross-country skiing where the leg kick is made using the skating step. This style has been established as a revolutionary...
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the early days of skiing in Norway 1898: Canadian championships in ski jumping and ski-running won by Olaus Jeldness 1904: First ski race in Italy, at...
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Eddie the Eagle (redirect from Eddie Edwards (ski jumper))
Eagle, is an English ski jumper and Olympian who in 1988 became the first competitor to represent Great Britain in Olympic ski jumping, finishing last in...
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Stem christie (redirect from Stem (skiing))
skier and inventor whose innovations included early ski heel bindings that facilitated turning and jumping, and method for turning that included the basic...
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untested terrain (i.e., off piste). The 1866 "ski race" in Oslo was a combined cross-country, jumping and slalom competition. In the slalom participants...
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Cross-country ski competitors employ one of two techniques, according to the event: classic and skating (in freestyle races, where all techniques are allowed)...
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Ski jumping at the 1960 Winter Olympics consisted of one event held on 28 February, taking place at Papoose Peak Jumps. The competition scheduled two...
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Alf Engen (section Invalid ski jumping world record)
several ski jumping world records during the 1930s and helped establish numerous ski areas in the Western United States. Engen is best known for his ski school...
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Nordic combined at the Winter Olympics (category Skiing at the Winter Olympics)
cross-country skiing, followed by ski jumping. Whoever earned the most points from both competitions won the event. At the 1952 Winter Olympics, the ski jumping was...
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Telemark landing (category Ski jumping)
is a landing technique in ski jumping. It was first tested by Torju Torjussen in 1883 and is still considered a safe landing technique today. To perform...
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Kongsberg (category Ski areas and resorts in Norway)
first ski jumping technique, the Konsberger was developed by Jacob Tullin Thams and Sigmund Ruud in Kongsberg, and was the most popular ski jumping technique...
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Parallel turn (category Skiing techniques)
turn without sliding. It contrasts with earlier techniques such as the stem Christie, which slides the ski outward from the body ("stemming") to generate...
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