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Legs-only
Skate -- no poles -- climb up hill |
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front
view - (4.8 MB file download)
early
March -- fresh snow on moderate hill. |
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side
view - (1.5 MB)
late
January -- moderately steep hill. |
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V1
skate -- ("offset", "paddle-dance") -- climb up hill |
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front
view - (3.4 MB file download)
early
March -- fresh snow on moderate hill. |
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side
view - (2.2 MB)
mid
February -- fresh cold snow on steep hill. At my limit with V1.
(perhaps
should have been using single-poling "coaches" skate) |
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Ken's technique changed somewhat during the
winter, so some technique details in a Side view video might not
match with the Front view video.
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It
is likely better to
Save these Target links on your hard drive,
rather
than to Open them directly in your Web Browser.
videos
are
in Apple
Quicktime video format - [
download Quicktime Player ]
I find it very effective to Pause the video clip in the
Quicktime player, then use the Right Arrow and Left Arrow keys to
advance (or reverse) the video frames slowly -- and to check body
position and timing at various points in the stroke cycle.
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| see also:
video clips of elite Racers |
December 2003 videos of Ken |
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