Competitive alpine skiing has a very varied history. Looking back, we can not pass the name of great skiers (Ingemar Stenmark, Alberto Tomba, Bojan Križaj, Michael von Grüningen…) which undoubtedly left a big mark in alpine skiing. Today's competitors: Bode Miller, Ted Ligety, Marcel Hircher, Felix Neureuter and Alexis Pinturault are representatives of the giant slalom technique, which marked it in some or other way.
In the master's thesis we discussed the technique of skiing of the before mentioned alpine skiers and came to the conclusion that they all standing on parallel skies in the width of the hips or in the width of the shoulders. All skiers are balanced, although their hips have been slightly backwords. For most of the skiers, we can notice that there is a more active outside knee, most of them are using third balance point (arm or even elbow) in the extreme situations. They are skiing in low position and trying to ski as fast as possible, or even increase speed throught turns. We can see a powerful stance on the edge of the skis and leading skies without scattering.
In the technique of skiing competitors, we have found many common characteristic, but still every competitor has a certain characteristic that gives his ski tecnique an uniqueness.
We also made an overview of the history of the ski technique and ski equipment, which gave us a better insight into the understanding of the technique of alpine skiing
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