Thanks! It's a long article, but it sure would be nice if someone in
the US translated it -- or at least the most relevant portions.
Gene
Anders Lustig wrote:
Gene Goldenfeld wrote in message ...
From the Jenex website:
Marty Hall has got to love this: On Wednesday, April 14, Thomas
Alsgaard signed a contract with the Norwegian National Team. Krister
Soergard said Thomas will be working with us on technique, especially
freestyle. Krister said: "Thomas must have seen how our skiers struggled
last year especially with freestyle technique." So much for the new
Norwegian skating technique.
Apropos of this: there has been some discussion about
the Norwegian skating situation in "Ski Sport": itīs
wondered how technique coaching could go wrong despite
having two great models around years ago; apparently
they were seen as too individual and the coaches wanted
to develop a more "textbook" technique without really
understanding thee free technique and how itīs still
eveolving.
(The biathletes had no such qualms about simply trying
to imitate as best as they could.)
http://www.skisport.no/pdffiles/friteknikk.pdf has a
sequence of photographs and an explanation why Alsgaard
was so great on hills _and_ after them - but I wonīt
mangle it by translating...
The most recent issue has an article about the studies
done to compare "padling" and "dobbeltdans" on different
types of hills.
Anders