What is the slalom?
The word slalom is derived from the Norwegian word slalam referring to a particular trail in Norway Telemark that younger, less practical skiers used to strengthen their skills. Today the winter alpine ski sport of slalom requires great accuracy and skills as well as speed to walk through the gates obstacle (usually two round poles while still trying to get downhill with the fastest finishing hours. In the Alpine ski competitions around the world. He was able to achieve and circumvent the gateway, you are immediately disqualified by the newer inflexible poles, the procedure called Blocking is no longer working, so the skier has to turn around to successfully ski around the gate.
Slalom score is a combination of two runs; Disqualification from isThe bottom of the run usually means that the competition ended for skiers. In a complex formula, skiers receive points based on time to complete the course and style. In most cases, the fastest skier is still winning, but in some cases, when the time range between two skiers is small, a skier with a slightly slower time could win on the basis of style. In most international amateur or professional competitions, skiers do not have to practice Nakurz.
Giant Slalom is a longer course with another distance between the poles and greater emphasis on speed. The same rules for disqualification are still true - Pole bringing means that you are outside. The combined Sport Super G has fewer gates and the race takes place at the downhill, so the speed is much faster and the accuracy is very demanding.
One of the interesting trends in the slalom is different skis lengths that have been designed over the years to deal with the needs of fast and accurate skiing with easy course correction. Shorter skis, measurement of about 63 inches (160.02 cm), prefereAt the beginning of 2000 athletes. This forced the International Ski Federation (FIS) to order specific lengths of skis for slalom. Currently, no men's skier should use a skier less than 65 inches (165.1 cm) and no woman can use skiing less than 61 inches (155 cm) on the international slalom competitions.