SKI HISTORY!

How was ski born? Since when is practised?

The first historical reference is back to the year  2500 B.C. It is a stone feldspar which was discovered on the island of Rodódy (Norway) in which the figure of a hunter with skis appears.

However, we have to wait three millenniums to find the first written evidence of this practice. It is the Byzantine historian Procopius who, around the year 500 A.D. He recounts a career on the snow between inhabitants of a remote village in the North.

It can be said that modern skiing was born around 1850, when the Norwegian Sondre Norhein (born June 10, 1825 in the Valley of Morgedal) begins to slide and jump down the sides of their environment and make the Telemark technique. From this time skiing longer a livelihood and adaptation to natural conditions in certain regions and passes constitute a proper sport.

In 1924 when Hannes Schneider, a resident of the village of Sant Anton in the Arlberg region (Austria), and disciple of Zdarsky, founded the first ski school. Enter the wedge and stem as well as further improvements in the bindings.

Since 1950 is re-introduced significant technical improvements. The implementation of safety toe significantly reduces fracture injuries. Short skiing, devised by Professor Karl Koller of Kitzbohel, opens the way for the special methodology for children.

Since there the constant improvements in the material, creating winter resorts are doing a fast evolving of practicing  skiing.