Download or read book Cross Country Skiing The Norwegian Way written by Sindre Bergan and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book teaches you how to practice the skills necessary to start cross-country, through the beginning lessons on the snow, then to immediate levels of the sport. It also covers equipment and waxing skills. There is a reason that the Norwegian men's and women's teams are continually at the very top of international Nordic skiing. You will be able to tap into their techniques and improve your skills quickly.
Download or read book Cross Country Skiing The Norwegian Way written by Hanne Overlier and published by Total Health Publications. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings the beginner, the competitor, the teacher, and the coach the latest in learning the latest skills that have continued to guide the Norwegian national men’s and women’s teams to the gold medal podium in every Olympic Games and World Championships. The techniques illustrated will aid the reader to progress to whatever level he or she desires, from simply enjoying the outdoors while moving effortlessly through the snow to winning the Olympic gold. The high-level competitor and coach will appreciate the conditioning chapter where Olympic level conditioning is revealed. But more, the videos included reveal the ski preparation and waxing techniques that are critical to maximizing your skiing pleasure and competitive success. More than 50 videos, filmed especially for this book, are included, along with 140 photos of every aspect of skiing—from equipment, waxing, and techniques to how to teach your children to enjoy our skiing world. For the videos--if you are reading the e-book (and are connected to the Internet), merely click the link to see the video. If you are reading a printed book, write the address into your digital device to enjoy the vide
Download or read book Cross Country Skiing written by Sindre Bergan and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giving readers a guide and special insight into the sport of cross country skiing, the authors outline the steps needed to enjoy the sport, from practice before the snow falls to conditioning to care of equipment. It also shows readers proper techniques for uphill nd downhill skiing, turning and skating. Photos.
Download or read book Cross Country Skiing The Norwegian Way Second Edition Video Enhanced Color Edition written by Sindre Bergan and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-01-28 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings the beginner, the competitor, the teacher, and the coach the latest in learning the latest skills that have continued to guide the Norwegian national men's and women's teams to the gold medal podium in every Olympic Games and World Championships. The techniques illustrated will aid the reader to progress to whatever level he or she desires, from simply enjoying the outdoors while moving effortlessly through the snow to winning the Olympic gold.The high-level competitor and coach will appreciate the conditioning chapter where Olympic level conditioning is revealed. But more, the videos included reveal the ski preparation and waxing techniques that are critical to maximizing your skiing pleasure and competitive success.More than 50 videos, filmed especially for this book, are included, along with 140 photos of every aspect of skiing-from equipment, waxing, and techniques to how to teach your children to enjoy our skiing world.For the videos--if you are reading the e-book (and are connected to the Internet), merely click the link to see the video. If you are reading a printed book, write the address into your digital device to enjoy the video.If you buy the print book from AMAZON you can buy the e-book for $1.99.
Download or read book Cross Country Skiing The Norwegian Way Second Edition Video Enhanced Black and White Edition written by Sindre Bergan and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-01-28 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings the beginner, the competitor, the teacher, and the coach the latest in learning the latest skills that have continued to guide the Norwegian national men's and women's teams to the gold medal podium in every Olympic Games and World Championships. The techniques illustrated will aid the reader to progress to whatever level he or she desires, from simply enjoying the outdoors while moving effortlessly through the snow to winning the Olympic gold.The high-level competitor and coach will appreciate the conditioning chapter where Olympic level conditioning is revealed. But more, the videos included reveal the ski preparation and waxing techniques that are critical to maximizing your skiing pleasure and competitive success.More than 50 videos, filmed especially for this book, are included, along with 140 photos of every aspect of skiing--from equipment, waxing, and techniques to how to teach your children to enjoy our skiing world.For the videos--if you are reading the e-book (and are connected to the Internet), merely click the link to see the video. If you are reading a printed book, write the address into your digital device to enjoy the video.
Download or read book High Performance Nordic Training written by Stuart Kremzner and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take your nordic skiing training to a new level of performance! This book teaches nordic skiers how to optimize their athletic development through training planning concepts of testing, training planning, periodization, overtraining, regeneration, Junior athlete development, and race preparation. Athletes will also learn how to properly implement interval and speed training for improved race performance, with specific sections for Master's and Junior athlete specific training development. Skiers will develop the skills to progress year after year.Author Stuart Kremzner is an exercise physiologist who has nordic coached and raced for 25 years. He was a developer of the USSA and NENSA coaches education curriculum, then consulted with the US Ski Team and many college teams.
Download or read book The Complete Guide to Cross country Skiing and Touring written by Art Tokle and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1977 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cross country Skiing Handbook written by Edward R. Baldwin and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Frog in the Fjord written by Lorelou Desjardins and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful and humorous account of the author's first year in Norway as a foreigner. From Easter to summer holidays and Christmas, it dives deeply into Norwegian culture, language and people.
Download or read book Trail to Gold written by U.S. Olympic Women Cross-Country Skiers 1972-2018 and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty-three American women have participated in cross-country skiing in the Winter Olympics between the years of 1972 and 2018. In 2018, forty-six years after the first team competed, Jessie Diggins and Kikkan Randall won Olympic gold in the Team Sprint, in Pyeongchang, South Korea, the first Olympic medal for U.S. women's cross-country skiing. Five decades of women skiers stood up and cheered, celebrating this long sought after achievement. This book shares the collective journey of these women Olympians, with the skiers themselves telling the story. Part I combines individual stories along a variety of themes, to collectively demonstrate the challenges of competing against the best in the world. In Part II, virtually every one of the fifty-three wrote her own profile to describe her skiing career and post-Olympic life. Photographs throughout put faces with the stories and add vibrancy to the narrative. The anecdotes in Trail to Gold: The Journey of 53 Women Skiers, paint the picture of women's cross-country skiing over 50 years--a fascinating history recorded in personal heartbreak and triumph and in fun vignettes from life on the trail.
Download or read book Brave Enough written by Jessie Diggins and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel with Olympic gold medalist Jessie Diggins on her compelling journey from America’s heartland to international sports history, navigating challenges and triumphs with rugged grit and a splash of glitter Pyeongchang, February 21, 2018. In the nerve-racking final seconds of the women’s team sprint freestyle race, Jessie Diggins dug deep. Blowing past two of the best sprinters in the world, she stretched her ski boot across the finish line and lunged straight into Olympic immortality: the first ever cross-country skiing gold medal for the United States at the Winter Games. The 26-year-old Diggins, a four-time World Championship medalist, was literally a world away from the small town of Afton, Minnesota, where she first strapped on skis. Yet, for all her history-making achievements, she had never strayed far from the scrappy 12-year-old who had insisted on portaging her own canoe through the wilderness, yelling happily under the unwieldy weight on her shoulders: “Look! I’m doing it!” In Brave Enough, Jessie Diggins reveals the true story of her journey from the American Midwest into sports history. With candid charm and characteristic grit, she connects the dots from her free-spirited upbringing in the woods of Minnesota to racing in the bright spotlights of the Olympics. Going far beyond stories of races and ribbons, she describes the challenges and frustrations of becoming a serious athlete; learning how to push through and beyond physical and psychological limits; and the intense pressure of competing at the highest levels. She openly shares her harrowing struggle with bulimia, recounting both the adversity and how she healed from it in order to bring hope and understanding to others experiencing eating disorders. Between thrilling accounts of moments of triumph, Diggins shows the determination it takes to get there—the struggles and disappointments, the fun and the hard work, and the importance of listening to that small, fierce voice: I can do it. I am brave enough.
Download or read book 100 Best Cross Country Ski Trails in Washington written by Tom Kirkendall and published by The Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to 100 cross-country skiing trails in Washington.
Download or read book Cross country Skiing Guide written by John Hamburger and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Winter s Children written by Ryan Rodgers and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Nordic skiing in the Midwest--its origins and history, its star athletes and races, and its place in the region's social fabric and the nation's winter recreation In the winter of 1841, a Norwegian immigrant in Wisconsin strapped on a pair of wooden boards and set off across the snow to buy flour--leaving tracks that perplexed his neighbors and marked the arrival of Nordic skiing in America. To this day, the Midwest is the nation's epicenter of cross-country skiing, sporting a history as replete with athleticism and competitive spirit as it is steeped in old-world lore and cold-world practicality. This history unfolds in full for the first time in Winter's Children. Nordic skiing first took hold as a sport in the Upper Midwest at the end of the nineteenth century, giving rise to an early ski league and a host of star athletes. With the arrival of a pair of brothers from Telemark, Norway, the world's best skiers at the time, the sport--and the ski manufacturing industry--reached new heights in Minnesota, only to see its fortunes fall after World War II, when downhill skiing surged in popularity. In Winter's Children Ryan Rodgers traces the rise and fall of Nordic skiing in the Midwest from its introduction in the late 1800s to its uncertain future in today's rapidly changing climate. Along the way he profiles the sport's stars and stalwarts, from working-class Norwegian immigrants with a near-spiritual reverence for cross-country skiing to Americans passionately committed to the virtues of competitive sport, and he chronicles races like the thrilling 1938 Arrowhead Derby (which ran from Duluth to St. Paul over five days) and the American Birkebeiner, the nation's largest cross-country event, which takes place every year in northern Wisconsin, snowpack permitting. Generously illustrated with vintage photography and ski posters, and featuring firsthand observations drawn from interviews, Winter's Children is an engaging look at the earliest ski teams and touring clubs; the evolution of cross-country skis, gear, and fashion; and the ambitious and ongoing effort to establish and maintain a vast trail network across the Minnesota state park system.
Download or read book The Legendary Jackrabbit Johannsen written by Alice E. Johannsen and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1993 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the remarkable Norwegian-Canadian who pioneered cross-country skiing in North America. A warm and personal portrait written by his daughter, it also places Johannsen's life in the context of the milieux in which he lived, and adds an element of objectivity and clarity to the Jackrabbit legend. Jackrabbit's life spanned more than eleven decades. Born in Norway in 1875, he spent his early years there before going to university in Berlin. As a young engineer he emigrated to the United States. After living and working in New York, in 1928 he moved to Canada with his wife and children and made his home in Montreal. Despite the financial problems which he encountered throughout his life, his good humour and determination never failed nor did his devotion to the outdoors and the development of skiing. Jackrabbit became a symbol for wilderness adventure and the excitement of cross-country skiing and, through his energy and enthusiasm, managed to impart his ideals to countless others. Alice Johannsen vividly describes the way her father lived and thought, and explains the personal philosophy that shaped his activities and achievements. This enjoyable biography will appeal to a wide range of general readers and offers a rich source for studies in sport, sociology, Canadian history, and Scandinavian studies. The late Alice E. Johannsen was Director of the McGill University Museums, Director of the Gault Estate and of the Mont St-Hilaire Nature Conservation Centre, and founder and Curator of the Jackrabbit Museum in Piedmont, Quebec.
Download or read book This Land of Snow written by Anders Morley and published by Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A passionate skier since he was a child, Anders Morley dreamed of going on a significant adventure, something bold and of his own design. And so one year in his early thirties, he decided to strap on cross-country skis to travel across Canada in the winter alone. This Land of Snow is about that journey and a man who must come to terms with what he has left behind, as well as how he wants to continue living after his trip is over. It is an honest, thoughtful, and humorous reckoning of an adventure filled with adrenalin and exuberance, as well as mistakes and danger. Along the way readers gain insight, both charming and fascinating, into Northern outdoor culture and modern-day wilderness living, the history of northern exploration and Nordic skiing, the right to roam movement, winter ecology, and more. Throughout, Morley’s clear, subtle, and self-deprecating voice speaks to a backwoods-genteel aesthetic that explores the dichotomy between wildness and refinement, language and personal story, journey and home.
Download or read book Ski the Nordic Way written by Cameron McNeish and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
