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Встань на коньки и катись!

2011-08-24 20:19:21 (читать в оригинале)

Скоро осень, а затем не за горами и зима. На стадионах и во дворах зальют лед, мальчишки возьмут клюшки и побегут во двор играть в хоккей. Всем нам знакомая картина. И вот однажды этим видом спорта заинтересовался ваш ребёнок. Первая реакция родителей: что мы знаем об этом спорте, всех ли берут в детскую секцию по хоккею и не поздно ли отдавать туда своего сына? А что делать, если он не прошел отбор в секцию, но горит желанием научиться кататься на коньках и освоить азы хоккейного мастерства?

На эти вопросы постараюсь ответить Вам я, Николай Слепаков, проработавший 10 лет детским тренером по хоккею с шайбой и отдавший этой прекрасной игре более 20 лет жизни. Мои воспитанники не раз становились победителями областных и городских соревнований в Кемеровской области и г.Мариинске. Итак, по порядку…

С какого возраста лучше ставить ребенка на коньки? Оптимальный возраст для начала занятий хоккеем - 5-6 лет. Но что делать, если по тем или иным причинам, ваш ребенок не смог попасть в хоккейную секцию в этом возрасте. Например, не прошел отбор по своим физическим данным, или у вас в то время просто не было средств для оплаты за занятия ребенка, а может просто некому было возить его рано утром через весь город на тренировки&...

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Bobsleigh

2011-05-25 16:24:00 (читать в оригинале)

Bobsleigh racing started in 1881. Today 31 countries participate. It is a highly technical and physically demanding sport. Pushing the steel and fibreglass sled (the 2-man sled weighs 210 kg and the 4-man, 390 kg, without crew) from a dead start takes great strength, speed and timing. The driver's skill in maneuvering 16 curves over the 1500 m course while taking the "fastest line" can mean the difference between winning and losing. Speeds can reach up to 150 km/hr, and the crew experiences up to 5 G's of gravitational force. The Canadian Amateur Bobsleigh and Luge Association was formed in 1957 and the first Canadian team entered international competition in 1959.

In 1962, a 4-man team led by Lamont Gordon won the Commonwealth bobsleigh championship. The EMERY brothers, Victor and John, who had formed the Laurentian Bobsledding Association in 1957, began racing in world competition in 1959. By 1964, with Douglas Anakin and Peter Kirby, they had gained the experience necessary to challenge the world's best at the Olympic Games at Innsbruck, Austria. Despite few opportunities to practise, they set a record time in their first run and won the gold medal.

The Canadian team, again led by Vic Emery, retained its title at the 1965 world championships. Canadian sledders, led by Greg Haydenluck and Chris Lori, returned to international competitiveness in the late 1980s.

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Bobsledding, Luge and Skeleton

2011-05-24 16:19:00 (читать в оригинале)

Sledding, or tobogganing, was first recorded in the 16th century. Modern racing began in Switzerland in the mid-19th century. Three forms of tobogganing developed: a bobsleigh, or sleigh, has 2 axles and 2 pairs of runners, is steered with a wheel, rope or bungie cord and is operated by teams of 2 or 4 racers; luge uses a single sled (a 1- or 2-seater) with the rider lying back from a sitting position; in Cresta tobogganing the rider lies on his chest. In the later 19th century skeleton was introduced, where a single athlete slides on a sheet-like sled face down and head first in the prone position.

Tobogganing developed independently in eastern Canada among native tribes who used their transportation sleighs for occasional fun. It was refined by groups such as the Montreal Tobogganing Club, the first such club in Canada, formed in 1881.

Most sleds could take as many as 4 riders; some accommodated 12. Tobogganing was one of Canada's prime winter sports in the 19th century. The Montmorency Ice Cone, outside Québec City, was a popular site for recreational sledding. When the sport grew less popular in Canada after the 1880s, the original toboggan runs were abandoned. Canadian competitors were forced to practise in Europe or at Lake Placid, NY, until 1985, when the Bobsleigh and Luge Track, built for the 1988 Winter Olympic Games, was permanently opened at Calgary Olympic Park. A track was also constructed in Salt Lake City, Utah, for the 2002 Winter Olympics and has been in operation since 1997. Skeleton was also reintroduced during the 2002 Games.

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Biathlon

2011-05-23 16:01:00 (читать в оригинале)

Biathlon is a sport that combines competitive, free-technique movement and marksmanship. The word biathlon is of Greek origin and means "two tests." Several other competition forms of movement and shooting, such as ski archery, snowshoe biathlon, running and shooting, and mountain bike biathlon, are also normally included in the general category of biathlon. However, by far the most common form of biathlon is the cross-country skiing and small-bore rifle marksmanship competition. It is this latter type of biathlon that is an OLYMPIC GAMES event.

The combination of two very contradictory disciplines, skiing and shooting, in the same competition confronts an athlete with a very demanding challenge. Cross-country racing requires intense, full-out physical exertion over an extended period of time, while shooting demands extremely fine control and stability. When athletes arrive at the shooting range they have to shoot at a very small target with a racing heartbeat and heaving chest because the clock is running even while they are shooting.

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Skiing, Alpine

2011-05-22 15:42:00 (читать в оригинале)

It is probable that the first skiers in Canada were the NORSE, who established several East Coast settlements about 1000 AD. Although no direct proof has been found, it would be remarkable if they had not brought their then 4000-year-old tradition of winter travel on long wooden sticks (skath) with them.

The birth of modern skiing in North America, nearly 1000 years later, can be credited to their direct descendants. Scandinavian prospectors and miners participating in the gold rushes of the mid-1800s used wooden "snowshoes" or "gliding shoes" up to 4 m long as a means of travel as well as for highly competitive professional downhill racing competitions. From 1856 to 1869, the Norwegian John "Snowshoe" Thompson provided the only winter overland mail service from the East to California. He was famous throughout the American West for his 300 km round trips, accomplished in 5 days with up to 50 kg of mail. Many of Canada's Scandinavian prospectors and railway builders were probably inspired by Thompson to polish the skiing skills developed in their homelands.

While westerners were out skiing unobserved in the wilderness, the first recorded Canadian ski outing was a trip by "Mr. A. Birch, a Norwegian gentleman of Montreal," who skied from Montréal to Québec in 1879 on a 3 m pair of "patent Norwegian snowshoes" using a single pole. In 1883 the Montréal Daily Star published a major article, "New Winter Sport in Norway," describing in detail the use of 2.5 m wooden "snowskates" plus a single 1.5 m staff. In 1887 Frederick Hamilton, the governor general's aide-de-camp, introduced skiing to Ottawa "amidst universal derision."