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In article ,
Peter Clinch wrote:
Booker C. Bense wrote:

_ It depends what you define as "ski specific", roller skis are
notorious for messing up your classic striding technique

I'd not heard that, to be honest. Also the case that the technically
best nordic striders I personally know, all current or past BASI Nordic
coaches, use and suggest roller skis.

_ If you're racing they are a must, and for skating I'm not aware
of any drawbacks if you can get enough friction in the wheels to
simulate snow speeds. There is nothing like specific training and
roller skiing is as specific as you can get without snow, but
until they figure out a way to simulate the effect of weighting
the ski to set the kick wax, roller skiing can lead to some
bad habits that require unlearning once you get on snow. For
a good skier with a coach, this disadvantage is greatly
outweighed by the specific traing provided, but for a novice
skier with no supervision it can really cause problems.

_ Back in the dark ages when I was XC racing, my coaches used
to emphasize that aspect a lot during dryland training. We
were taught to focus on weighting the ski during roller skiing
even though the mechanism did not require it, or at least not
to the extent that a highly cambered racing ski does. Personally,
I detested roller skiing and would rather do just about any other
kind of dryland training. I'm sure roller skis are much better
now that back then, but from what I read on rec.skiing.nordic
it seems like this is still a problem.

_ As for the original poster, you might try poking around
ebay or garage sales for a Nordic Track trainer. Here's
what I mean

http://tinyurl.com/49blg

_ You can get them used fairly cheap and they do provide
a good ski specific workout.

_ Booker C. Bense





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