If you go cross country skiing you will find three different terrains Uphill, Downhill and flat terrain. In this Article i will explain the basic technique for each terrain.
Flat terrain
- Kick and glide technique: You kick with one food back and glide with the other one. –> easy and effective!
- -Skating: It is like inline skating or skating on ice. –> faster but more exhausting
Uphill terrain
- Hiring boning: Put your skis like a V and push the edges of the ski into the snow while walking.
- Sidestepping: the skis are parallel to the hill and you go step by step sideward up the hill
Downhill terrain
- go zickzack and turn with a kick turn.
- Put the skis like a V by edging on ski you turn into this direction.
- Ski down the hill and break with step turns up the hill
- Telemarkturn