A lot of News about the Brattleboro Ski Jump and older jumps around the country

Vermont ski jump restored to old glory - Boston.com
For decades, ski jumpers from around the world -- Norway, Austria, Canada
-- launched themselves off the ski jump at Harris Hill.

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When I was 17, I and many others got to Ski in Berlin (discussed below). It was a wonderful jump and is also worth restoring.

Thrill of victory forgotten
Boston Globe - United States
By 1937, the Granite State was home to the country's tallest ski jump, a
fearsome, now-defunct, 198-foot tower in Berlin that was home to the United
States ...

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Look at what is coming to Oslo Norway:

Holmenkollen ski jump by JDS Architects | SpaceInvading

Holmenkollen ski jump
Construction is underway in Oslo, Norway, on the new Holmenkollen ski jump
designed by JDS Architects. Building will be completed in time for the
Holmenkolldagen annual international ski jumping competition in March 2011
...
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Norge Ski Club hosts 104th ski jump tourney
Chicago Daily Herald - Chicago,IL,USA
For hundreds of fans, the 104th Norge Ski Club's ski jump tournament
competition Sunday in Fox River Grove was a chance to see something
extraordinary. ...
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There are more postings about Leavenworth Washinton and Frisco Co that we will be exploring.

Build a jump in your home town!

Schlierenzauer sweeps in Vancouver

Double click on this one (now).. the second jump is very nice.

Sometimes the highlights don't put the full perspective on the jump. This can likely be viewed on
www.universalsports.com as a complete competition.

Schlierenzauer is on a roll. His jumps are right on and he is flying like no other. It is critical to understand that he takes every bit of lift that he is given to gain more and more altitude going down the hill.. Add to that he keeps going when the hill is running out when many would back out.

SkiJumpingUSA.COM Great Site from Ken Anderson

Ken Anderson has done a wonderful site bringing the many parts Ski Jumping Resources of the world under one Roof. Check it out at:

http://www.skijumpingcentral.com/

and also

http://www.skijumpingusa.com/

It would be nice if the USSA had this much information.

Thank You Ken for all your efforts!

Robert jumping the 38m

Much better than the piece I saw just just before this - "Who is the Greatest Ski Jumper in History"?... promoting Adam Malysz who certainly was a good jumper... I just don't like proclamations like that.

And besides, kids are more important than "who was the greatest!" Through the march of time what is important, is that kids can find challenges, and grow through them to become the people who are good in this world.... and as for Ski Jumpers, well, all I can say is that Ski Jumping is very very fun and worth the effort.

To be on some of the flights below one has to start on jumps even smaller than this one.

Birger Ruud

The quality of the feed could be better but a wonderful piece about Birger Ruud. 37 Years old in his last Olympics. Impressive.

Old ski jump! (Springertournee in the early 60's)

Nice Telemarks and a mixture of styles. Music Too.

1967 - Lars Grini - 150m, Oberstdorf

Ski flying in 1967.. working its way up. This is Lars Grinni, who I believe was Norwegian.

SKI JUMPING - HISTORY

Need to figure out who makes these pieces... This is "Morelka1990"..

Nice history of Jumping!

US Ski Jumping and Nordic Combined

A great piece from Park city and the US Nationals 2007

skijump(skihopp)

A great view of kids ski jumping as it is tody around the world. I believe this is Norwegian gnerally.

Watching Ski Jumping...

Well, Universal Sports.com (following wcsn.com) is changing ones ability to keep in touch w/ Ski Jumping and it is really really nice.

Besides needing to feed off of IE Explorer and not Firefox, it is darn stable. You can PAUSE when you want to grab a beer or some such, and you can actually watch a ski jumping competition.

I am watching Kulm Day 1 right now and about 1/2 through the second round and all is good.

Here is the Link to this One
Otherwise, hit the "Schedule" button at Universalsports.com and find what you want to watch - usually on veiw "On Demand" - there could be some more comps but it is good around New Years like this with the SpringerTourneee (4 Hills Tournament is their term in strict translation)

Now, about that ski jumping. You all need to try it. It is really really really fun.

And yes, maybe 30 people in the world get to ski the second round. I have seen a 32 year old, but most are younger. I stopped too young.

I could go on.

Be a spectator and imagine yourself there. The air pressure is much much more than it appears, and when they are really on the jump the vacuum of the lift envelope is more amazing than nearly anything...

Just say no to TV, but watch these competions. It is worth the time spent.

best.

Gregor Schlierenzauer - Kulm - 215.5m - HILL RECORD

This is the Austrian piece. If you sit through it you can see how far down the hill he lands in the last Zoom out shot.. Really unbelievable.

Lots of fun to have this go around the world like this.

Schlierenzauer 215,5m - Polish Feed K185 2009 - new hill record!

This is the Polish feed, but I put it here to make a technical comment. By his jumping so far he actually was able to land without too much force in his landing, and remarkably, pulling out of his squat landing he went immeditately into a slalom style stop.. He is a very good skier, but his flying, remarkably, made it quite easy to stop..

Why, you may ask. Basically one goes slower in the air than on the snow. These jumps increase in size slowly, based upon the abilities of the best skiers, but more than that, the dangers to the worst skier. Falling, or tumbling down the landing hill is much much more dangerous than gliding in the air down the hill... and one picks up a lot more speed too when they are on the snow than in the air.

Watch him stop here... amazingly easy.

all for now

Project X Wki Site

You may be aware of the current US Development program, and you may not. If not, check out the site at the following link.

http://skijumping.wikispaces.com/

Mens Ski Jumping, for various reasons, has fallen on some hard fortunes and is not currently supported by the US. Ski Team as most other disciplines are supprted (I don't know the full details of this, but specifically there is no Named US Ski Team in Jumping)....

Reacting to the need for creating a viable path for develoment and international competition, the US. Ski Jump Development program has been formed as a self standing 501c3 Corp. The need for fundraising is very real for this group, but the call to action of creating an effective and functional program has been remarkable. Jochen Dannenberg has been retained as the Coach (Olympic Medalist and Springertournee Winner). The outstanding efforts and support coming from Alan Johnson and Jim Holland deserve our full recognition.

Lets all help with their success in the ways we can. Find out more at:

http://skijumping.wikispaces.com/

Project X is part of the wider movement that that is fermenting success in Nordic Disciplines throughout the continent. Lets support these initiatives.

139m Ski Jump-Blake Hughes

Blake Hughes in Klingenthal.. Go Project X!

Johnny Lyons on Klingenthal

Nice Jumping Johnny!

Anders Johnson - Project X

Summer Jumping with Anders Johnson, US World Cup Competitor and Olympian.

You Go Anders!

Nicholas Fairall 170,5m - Kulm K185 2009

Awesome first Ski Flying Comp Jump for Nicholas. Thanks to Mr. Hastings for finding this.

Nicholas Fairall 120m - Ga-Pa 2008 Q

Great Jump In Garmisch by Nick Fairall. Great to see you getting it done!

Gregor Schlierenzauer - Kulm 10.1.09 215,5 meter

Unbelievable Jump and subsequent Flight by Gregor Schlierenzauer. This Jump really shows the relationship between proper takeoff and the right attitude in the air. His "fly away" that can be seen extremely soon into the air is on a completely different plane, and the result of this is seen as he proceeds down the landing hill. He is "lofting" and literally could have flown this onto the flats but it would have likely been impossible to land.

The primary commentator for this piece, I believe, is Armin Kogler who was a very accomplished jumper and Flyer in the late 70's and early 80's. This is from Austrian TV (ORF) around Jan 10, 2009.

Re Shlierenzauer, I heard that he only put on Jump Boots 3 years ago... (hard to believe, but would be interesting to find out more about). He is an amazing athlete which you can see, not only in the jump, but in how he handled a difficult landing, and even more how quick he was back up w/ fist in the air, and turned into a stop.

One of those jumps to be remembered for a long time. Simon Amman had one last year (shown below I think still) at Haarachov CZ that had a similar Loft going on.

Fly well everyone.