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In Norway, the island of Rodoy , was found a rock carvings (dating back to 2000 BC) where it represented a human figure with a pair of skis feet.

But the Lapps that more than 2000 years ago used a copy of symmetric cross-shaped: a long and slender to slip and another shorter and underneath the skin of a seal, to give ourselves a boost. In

Stories of Herodotus (IV century BC) we talk about with peoples of Asia Minor " wooden shoes" for traveling on snow, has also been found in 'archaic Chinese script exists an ideogram meaning and indicates a specific tool: the " tablet to slide .

With skis you can go from 300 to 400 km per day, and it seems that the colonization of America occurred with skis . At the end of the 800

Mathias Zdarsky shorter skis up to m. 1.80 (more than three meters!) Patents and 25 types of attacks, more functional and " Lilienfelder " (the name of his village) to prevent the foot from sliding sideways.

For ski competitions have to wait half 800 when the Norwegian Sondre Nordheim , a resident of the Norwegian Telemark, he invented a style that telemark ", making it a sport. The first real race came in 1843, in typical sports Tromsø, also in Norway. Seventeen years later, in 1860, King organized a real official competition in Oslo, putting at stake Cup Holmenkollen .

Before the circulation in Central Europe, skiing knew his luck from 1854 onwards in Canada, Nevada and California on the border between the diggers or o.

In Italian Alpine valley ski instead arrived with much delay, except for a very limited area of \u200b\u200bthe meat for a special occasion: in the Thirty Years' War soldiers participated in a group of Scandinavians, that the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 remained in Carnia, cramming so this costume, but he did not much hold on the villagers. The spread of skiing in Italy will have to wait until 1886, when the numismatic and mountaineer Edward Martinori i, returning from a voyage in Ski Lapland, brings back the pair of skis he used, which gave to the Roman section of the Italian Alpine Club , founded by him, causing a considerable interest in the press.

Today, ski disciplines are:

• alpine skiing: downhill, super G, giant slalom, slalom, combined
  
• Nordic ( collects all the specialties in which it is not possible to fix the heel the ski boot to ski the same ): cross-country skiing, ski jumping, biathlon, telemark skiing alpinism
• or
• ski orientation