Improving the execution speed of children alpine skiers, in accordance with the evolution of technique for slalom tests

¹ University of Craiova, Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, 146 Brestlei Street, Craiova, Romania
² University of Petroşani, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Socio-Human Sciences, 20 University Street, Petroşani, Romania

^* Corresponding author: mariajurca2007@yahoo.com

Abstract

Alpine skiing is a predominantly technical discipline, whose basic feature is balancing in sliding, it takes place outdoors, in special environmental conditions: altitude, weather conditions, terrain, and types of snow. Practiced regularly from an early age, under the proper guidance of coaches, skiing is transforming from a recreational sport, especially important for children’s health and their harmonious development, into a performance sport. This paper aims to present a new approach to the training systems of alpine skiers on snow. In addition to physical training close to the characteristics of the discipline - we consider that it is necessary a special physical training - of the physical qualities required by the competition effort, respectively of balancing in conditions of sliding on the snow. In this sense, the paper tries to demonstrate that by applying some efficient operational structures in the trainings carried out on the snow, it is possible to improve the execution speed and implicitly the technical expression in the slalom events.