Abstract
Alpine skiing is a predominantly technical discipline, whose basic feature is balancing in sliding, it takes place outdoors, in special environmental conditions: altitude, weather conditions, terrain, and types of snow. Practiced regularly from an early age, under the proper guidance of coaches, skiing is transforming from a recreational sport, especially important for children’s health and their harmonious development, into a performance sport. This paper aims to present a new approach to the training systems of alpine skiers on snow. In addition to physical training close to the characteristics of the discipline - we consider that it is necessary a special physical training - of the physical qualities required by the competition effort, respectively of balancing in conditions of sliding on the snow. In this sense, the paper tries to demonstrate that by applying some efficient operational structures in the trainings carried out on the snow, it is possible to improve the execution speed and implicitly the technical expression in the slalom events.
Highlights
The history of skiing is integrated into the comprehensive history of human civilization, contributing to the deepening and understanding of phenomena, to the reconstruction of moments of the struggle that man has led for millennia to assert his condition and expand his sphere of knowledge
Competitive alpine skiing consists of five distinct events: slalom, giant slalom, supergiant slalom, downhill, and combined alpine
We consider that given that the technical component of performance, in slalom events, is manifested as the main limiting factor of efficiency in competition, the methodology and technology of technical training of children must include new structures and systems of action, especially on snow. These structures and action systems must consider: the characteristics of the effort specific to performance alpine skiing, the children's competitive environment, significant changes in the gesture technique specific to slalom events, and some realities and working conditions that hinder the development of this sport
Summary
The history of skiing is integrated into the comprehensive history of human civilization, contributing to the deepening and understanding of phenomena, to the reconstruction of moments of the struggle that man has led for millennia to assert his condition and expand his sphere of knowledge. The objectives of physical condition training are to increase the ability to perform, implicitly the performance in the competition (the increasing aspect of performance), and maintaining body health (preventive aspect) [3]. Snow training primarily serves to train and strengthen the technique. Each training on snow contains components that can improve physical condition. All this must be considered and included in the preparation process. The efficiency of snow training could be increased if these aspects were included in the planning of fitness training [1, 4, 6, 7]
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