“When you win a lot, you don’t learn much. With my ups and downs, it’s a lot of learning.” (Tina Maze)
TBA
Techniques
Lifting Inside Hip by Shiffrin
Long Leg; Short Leg
Compact Transition by Hirscher
SL Hand and Stance by Liensberger
Flush by Vonn
Handling Icy SL Course by Vlhova
Comments on GS by Brignone
TBA
Tactics
Course Inspection
Tips by Daron Rahlves:
Start
GS line choice
Warm-up
One simplest way to tell whether a racing team is trained professionally is to look at their racers’ pre-race warm-up routine. Given the fact that a fraction of a second matters in ski racing, whether athletes seriously and properly warm up before a race could substantially influence their eventual ranking.
High-level racing teams (e.g., USST) obviously always do warm-ups. If your team doesn’t have a warm-up routine, do it yourself. If people who don’t do warm-ups laugh at you, don’t be bothered. Keep warming up and let the clock speak after your run.
We consider warm-up as a tactic used by racers paying attention to every tiny detail in a race.