• 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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    turn (skiing) Jump turn Telemark turn Skate skiing Ski jumping techniques Skis Ski bindings Ski boots Ski poles with pole guards if a racer Ski wax 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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  • 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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    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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    Telemark skiing. Olympic events are competitive cross-country skiing, ski jumping and Nordic combined — an event combining cross-country skiing and ski jumping...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    skiing equipment and techniques. More generally, ski mountaineering is an activity that variously combines ski touring, Telemark, backcountry skiing,...
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  • Bistrica, a town south of Maribor in eastern Slovenia Windisch technique, a ski jumping technique This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the...
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    Throughout the 1950s, additional barefoot starting techniques were invented including the two-ski jump out, the beach start (invented by Ken Tibado in 1955)...
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    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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  • 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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  • 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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