From youtube shot by the Kiwis.... One of the commenters mentioned that from Interski 2011 to 2018 in Bulgaria, no other country seemed to really change their direction and clarify their direction more. I have to agree. No more weird swoopy arms and oddly posed skiing. I'd heard that previous teams were an amalgam of their two national associations and some of the outcomes a result of the two not really playing well together. Years ago, I saw and experienced this first hand from region to region within their telemark association (sound familiar?). My theory is that there's a lot of great cross pollination of ideas and skiing going on at the very top. Takao Murayama's been hanging out with JF and JB, and the Aussie's have been hanging out at the Japan tecnical comps. Anyhow, it's pretty cool to see the group ski well, and the women just rip. If you make it through the word soup, @ 7:00 is very interesting and worth chewing on.It's something some of us around these parts have been coaching, but I like the softer notion of describing 'travel' in transistion. All the above is just my opinion.
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