Word: arlberg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brown snow machine made the wintersports show possible, Hannes Schneider was what made it profitable. To him, as head of the famed Arlberg Skiing School, more than to any other single person in the world, is attributable skiing's current world-wide boom. In Stuben, Austria, near the Tyrolean border, Hannes Schneider grew up when Alpine skiing, imported from Norway where it had become a major sport 20 years before, was in its infancy. Norwegian skiers skied standing up straight. After he had learned to ski on barrel staves, used them to win a race for which the prize...
HANNES SCHNEIDER'S school at St. Anton, Arlberg, is probably the most famous center for ski instruction in the world. To him have come King Albert of Belgium; Germany's finance minister, Dr. Schacht; Kurt Schuschnigg, dictator of Austria, and notables from every continent. One of his assistant instructors, Otto Lang, the author of "Downhill Skiing" will extend the Arlberg System to the slopes of Mount Rainier in Washington this winter...
...beautiful photographs of christianias, stem-turns, snow-plow-turns, and telemarks in their various stages of execution. Otto Lang emphasizes with the same insistence of his senior, Hannes Schneider, that a thorough knowledge of the fundamentals of skiing is essential to maximum pleasure and safety. The fundamentals of the Arlberg technique are the "voriage" or "forward crouch," always keeping the heels on the skis, medium "edge" on turns with emphasis upon body movement, and holding both skis to the snow as long as possible...
Then, like a bolt from the blue, came the news of Hannes Schnieder and his great Ski School at Arlberg. Here was somebody who had dared to throw tradition to the winds. He was developing a new technique; a sort of mongrel breed, half Swiss, half Norwegian. Schnieder declared, "I don't care how I get down a hill, so long as I reach the bottom standing up!" With the spread of this Arlberg method New England has become Ski-conscious. The interest and necessary nerve have been with us now for two winters, but, till just recently, there...
...under the ideal snow conditions of the 1930-31 winter. Instead of fulfilling their physical training requirements (called "rec" in Dartmouth parlance) in the gymnasium, the undergraduates flocked to the surrounding hills, and under the guidance of Schniebs and three assistant coaches they proceeded to turn their attention to Arlberg methods...