Publication details
The Posture of Elite World Class Cross-Country Skiers at the Classic Style, Diagonal Stride.
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| Year of publication | 2009 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Studia Sportiva |
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| Field | Sport and leisure time activities |
| Keywords | cross country skiing posture classical style diagonal stride technique |
| Description | The contribution deals with kinematical analysis of the most important variables of cross country skiing classical style (diagonal stride). Twelvw elite competitors (men) taking part the World Cup were used for the analysis. These competitors were from four countries of Europe. Five variables were evaluated, the size of the angle changes of the head and trunk position to the surface and the size of the angle changes in the hip, knee and elbow. The variables were observed in tree phase points of half diagonal stride cycle. The analysis was made with help of the simple PC programmes (Windows, Corel, AutoSketch). The competitors were divided into three groups. The first group included competitors from Norway, the second from Russia and third from Czech and Slovak Republic. The competitors were placed from 6 to 125 place of the WC. Specific posture difference and concordance of their diagonal stride technique were found out at the top XC skiers divided according to their performance. The significant differences were found out primarily for the first and second phase points, in time of propulsive force creating. |