Word: christianias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...samovar. For Emile Allais, who last February at Chamonix won the International Ski Federation's World Championship by taking firsts in the slalom and downhill races, laid down a new and highly controversial rule for skiing. All skiing turns should be abandoned, said Champion Allais, excepting the pure Christiania and the parallel Christiania. The French Ski Federation heartily concurred with its champion and, when his Le Ski Français was published last week at Bellegarde, a small town in France, the Federation promptly adopted it as the official method of teaching Frenchmen...
This is nothing short of revolution in ski technique, for the first things U. S. ski masters teach neophytes are the stem turn and the stem-Christiania, executed by braking with one ski, then edging the other over. Pure "Christies" (now learned after stemming is mastered) involve no stemming, but are accomplished by swinging the weight of the body while thrusting one ski forward. They are more graceful and faster than stem turns, or the other great ski maneuver-the Telemark...
...Originally the orthodox ski technique, Telemark turns (accomplished by sliding one ski far forward so that it guides the other into the turn) are practical only in deep snow, lost favor when the Christiania technique was developed...
...teaching skiing to officers in all the Alpine regiments. During the War, Hannes Schneider perfected his own technique in new directions. Favorite turn of Norwegian skiers was the dignified Telemark, executed standing upright, with the paunch extended, shoulders back. Hannes Schneider elaborated the racy Christiania-executed in a crouch with the shoulders forward, paunch tucked...
...York, New Haven & Hartford and New York Central are running snow trains, expect to take 2,000 skiers to snow every weekend. Skiing started in prehistoric Scandinavia. Long practiced for utility, it became a sport in 1879, when the King of Norway promoted a tournament between skiers of Telemark & Christiania. The sport of skiing was introduced into Switzerland a few years before the turn of the Century by English sportsmen who had picked it up in Norway, correctly considered the Alps ideal skiing terrain. In the U. S., the first skier on authentic record was the Rev. John L. Dyer...