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E. Wroughton. A History of Skiing - A Concise Essay on this Popular Winter Sport Including its History, Equipment, Different Styles and Techniques
A HISTORY OF SKIING
CONTENTS
SKI-ING. I THE ANTIQUITY AND RENAISSANCE OF SKI
II. COUNTRIES IN WHICH SKI-RUNNING IS PRACTISED
NORWAY
SWEDEN
SWITZERLAND
ITALY
AUSTRIA
GERMANY
ENGLAND
SCOTLAND
NORTH WALES
III. OUTFIT
BINDINGS
BOOTS
SOCKS
CLOTHING
KIT
IV. THE ELEMENTS OF SKI-RUNNING
FIRST EFFORTS
GOING ON THE LEVEL
THE ASCENT
KICK TURN
THE DESCENT
FALLING AND GETTING UP
SIDESLIPPING
BRAKING
STEMMING
THE DOWN HILL CURVE OR “S” TURN
THE TELEMARK SWING
THE CHRISTIANIA SWING
JUMPING
THE JUMPING HILL
V. THE SNOW AND ITS PECULIARITIES
TOURING
THE AVALANCHE
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A CONCISE ESSAY ON THIS POPULAR WINTER SPORT INCLUDING ITS HISTORY, EQUIPMENT, DIFFERENT STYLES AND TECHNIQUES.
E. WROUGHTON
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The modern history of the sport of ski-running may be said to date from the year 1879, with the ski meeting held on the slopes of the hill at Huseby, near Christiania, under the auspices of the Christiania Ski Club. A number of peasants from the Telemarken district were induced to attend the meeting, and the exhibition so stimulated local interest in the sport, notwithstanding the somewhat ludicrous attempts of the urban sportsmen, that a real impetus was undoubtedly given to what has since become the national pastime. In subsequent years this annual fixture, as it had become, attracted thousands of people to Christiania, and the jumping of the Telemarkings was regarded in the light of a prodigious feat. The jeunesse dorée of the capital longed to imitate, if they could not hope to surpass, the marvellous feats of the provincials, and ski-running and jumping became universal. For some years the peasants easily outdistanced and outleapt their city opponents. They possessed all the advantages of a knowledge of the sport from infancy. But the townsmen, quick to recognise the benefits arising from a judicious course of training, at length succeeded in defeating their rivals both in leaping and long-distance racing.
In many cases, notably at Glarus in Switzerland in 1903, the introduction of ski-running into European countries has been due to Norwegians, who very naturally were its best possible pioneers. The sport spread, if not rapidly, at least surely, upon the Continent, and may be said to have found its first centre, outside of Norway, in the Black Forest. The Feldberg proved an ideal centre from which to disseminate a knowledge of ski-running; the proximity of the University town of Freiburg ensured the speedy enrolment of a large number of devotees, and such an impulse was thus given to the movement that the district has ever since remained a most popular one with sportsmen.
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