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Skiers vs Snowboarders 1985

3 records du monde consécutifs chez les hommes, un record du monde chez les femmes... Voici le film d'une journée historique pour Vars et le ski de vitesse !

Vars - Speed Skiing World Record Attempt 2016 - Official Report

Note: I did not know about self arresting, now I do and I agree it would probably have been the best course of action. 
location: Zillertal Arena, 42 (black piste)
Picture of the slope: https://www.skiresort.nl/typo3temp/_processed_/4a/a9/96/63/c9fceaf3d3.jpg

A friend and I went skiing on a very steep and icy slope (closed the previous day, during which the top layer of snow melted and froze again), I fell and didn't manage to slow down. I learned my lesson and I hope some of you will too! Be very careful on steep, icy slopes and learn how to self arrest! I got lucky and managed to get away with just a few bruises.

I had an GPS speed app on at the moment, I fell whilst going around 55 km/h, then I did manage to get back to 40 km/h, but after that the slope got steeper and steeper and in the end, when I hit the net, I was going about 82 km/h! So i guess we could agree the net did a marvelous job :)

1100 meter piste slide with no skis (82Km/h) GoPro Hero

Ivan Origone and Valentina Greggio of Italy beat the World Record with speeds of 254.958kph (158.424 mph) and 247.038kph (153,502mph).

Two world records were broken today in VARS la Forêt Blanche (France) at the Speedmasters in Speed Ski, a non-FIS event.

Ivan Origone (ITA) broke his brother’s record by 2,5km/h and set a new benchmark at 254,958km/h. His brother, Simone Origone, had held 3 world records since 2006.

The new women’s record holder is also from Italy. Valentina Greggio, who with two World Cup events to go is already the overall FIS Speed Ski World Cup winner, set a new speed record with 247,038km/h and beat the 10 year old record set by Sanna Tidstrand from Sweden.

Thanks MasMovil, Atomic Skiing, GoPro, Leki and Bumpy Films.

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