The legendary Swedish Gunde Svan was close to to revolutionize the the entire free ski way in the late 80s.Gunde Svan work out free skiing the way quite a style. Pasi Liesimaa
it was the olympics alusaika 1988. Ski the world had experienced a cataclysm, when the 1987 world championships free ski way was the first time the traditional alongside the race program. In calgary, the race would be a new ski-way for the first time in olympic history.
the Swedish ski king Gunde Svan was pensive. How in the world a new ski way should pertsaan used to practice? One summer day in dalarna, it hit the consciousness:
– First I tried it on the lake at home. I noticed a canoe trip, that one paddle can paddle more than two. Then I had a thought: why should there be two rods, when the ski? Svan opened, when the evening paper asks the subject Seefeldissä.
the End was skiing history – almost.
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Gunde Svan moved the canoe trip of their findings to the ski slopes as soon as it was possible. He started going to momentum ski their two instead of a single rod – rather use that. Svanin rod are told namely was as much as 230 centimeters long.
When I started to test it, I did it in secret, that others would see it in advance.
photos Soon Svanin practice began to spread and the ski crowd gasp. Swedish namely, going really fast.
I still Remember very well, when I showed it to the media. It was a reaction that I could never have imagined, Svan tell and enhance the response exaggerated äimistyneelle hands spread to catch.
it was Not long before the international ski federation banned the single pole skiing in official competitions. Svanin found the loophole was plugged, and perhaps rightly so. Svan namely, to find the invention also a clear weakness.
I Noticed, that the way to get really fast on the flat, but a steep incline in the matter was completely the opposite.
Rattling oxygen
Gunde Svan was an exceptional skier otherwise as their innovations and 11 the value of championship gold in his behalf. His maximum oxygen uptake measured VO2Max value was terrible 91. This is one of the toughest ski from the person who never measured values.
– It is due to the fact that I was hard to stay still. We didn’t have Playstations or Iphones, Svan smiled.
the Finns, the same value is measured in Harri kirvesniemi of , Svanin contemporaries and good familiar.
– He’s part Swedish, so he was the first Finnish person I could talk to. Finnish my skills when there is non-existent!
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we Talked about the weather and ski, pretty normal stuff.
In 1985, Seefeld world championships Gunde Svan won two gold and a bronze. AOP
