User:SiriPie13/Telemarklandung

Telemark landing

The telemark landing or just "Telemark" as it is referred to by experts, is a landing technique in ski jumping. It was first tested by Torju Torjussen in 1883 and is still considered a save landing technique today. To perform this landing, the athlete pushes one ski a little more to the front and the other ski a little more backwards during the landing process. The landing point is not the ski binding but the point in the middle between the heel of the front foot and the toes of the back foot. The upper body has to be raised up while the knees are slightly bend to absorb the impact of the jump.

Origin of the name

The name of this landing technique refers to the skiing technique telemark skiing from the norwegian province Telemark where Torjussen was from and in which the technique was first developed.

Rating of the landing

The ski jumper should

• raise the head and upper body from a stable and ideal flight position, move the arms forwards and upwards laterally while the skis turn into a parallel position.
• move into a lunge as well as slightly bend the knees just before touching the ground with the ends of the skis.
• use their muscle power to actively reduce the impact that comes from landing and braking, supporting the elastic resistance forces of the bending back ends of the skis after contact with the ground,
• at the same time increase the lunge and bend the back leg even more (telemark position) as well as distribute the pressure of the landing evenly onto both legs when the skis are in a narrow position and stretch both arms horizontally and forwards upwards to keep the balance.

Rating criteria

• Harmonic transition from the flight position to the landing position.
• A slight step position and knee bending at first contact with the ground.
• Active support of the braking coming from the elastic resistance forces of the bending back ends of the skis
• Stable handling of the landing impact through correctly bent knees (not to deep and not to long) and by increasing the step position.
• Fully developed Telemark leg position at the end of the breaking phase i.e. medium step position (distance from the heel of the shoe in front to the toe cap of the back shoe approximately one shoe length, the toe cap of the back shoe should at least be behind the heel of the shoe in front) and a significantly deeper bending of the back leg.
• Narrow and clean ski guidance (parallel and with a distance between the skis not more than two ski widths as well as pressure on the total surface of both skis).

Deduction of points

• Maximum deduction of 5.0 points for the whole movement section.
• Deduction of at least 2.0 points for no telemark leg position (feet parallel) at the end of the landing phase, so called haferl landing, (as individual error).

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