What is Cross Country Skiing?
Cross country
skiing, or Nordic Skiing, is a form of travel across flat and
slopped land. It was first developed in Scandinavia as early
as 1400 AD.
Today there are two types of skiing;
classic and skate. Classic skiing, as it's name implies, is
the original form of skiing. Classic skiing uses sticky kick
wax (just under the skiers foot) compressed against the snow
to move the skier forward, and glide wax along the rest of the
base.
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Skate skiing is a newer form that uses a
full base of glide wax. Instead of using the friction between
sticky wax and snow to move forward a skate skier uses the
normal force of their foot to their ski to move.
Page Description
This page explores the physics of skate skiing. The pages
include a brief explanation of the movement of skate skiing,
types of snow a skier encounters, the functions of wax and
structure.
You can navigate the page by choosing a topic under the "Pages" tab to the left. At the end of some topics there will be suggested next topic links to press.
You can also find additional information under the "Links" tab.
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