Feb 22, 2014 · Downhill and super-G events have one run, slalom and giant slalom events have two runs - different courses on the same ski run. Even the skis are different. Slalom skis are shorter and narrower, the better to manoeuvre quickly through gates which are close together without catching a tip on a gate. Giant slalom skis are longer and wider, but ...

This ski size from Atomic brand shows that ski size for slalom race should be shorter than the racer . This table says that you can use ski from 150 to 165 according to your hieght, I can suggest you to choose a ski near to 150cm if you are lighter of near to 165 if you are havier. Height (cm) ==> Approx. Ski Length (cm) 114 - 122 ==> 100 - 115

Mar 21, 2016 · It's clear that in all the alpine skiing events you need to go from red gate to blue gate and you need to go round them. I cannot understand fully that in the slalom race. Most of the gates there, have some distance between them, but sometimes the red and blue gate are right one after another.

Feb 13, 2022 · @Abel Those very high speeds are for downhill; (giant) slalom being a technical discipline rather than a speed discipline is much slower. As noted by Nij, Wikipedia states an average speed of 40 km/h = 11 m/s for giant slalom, so handwaving a bit you want to reduce your length estimate by a factor of 4.

Jul 7, 2017 · First one being equipment. I am skiing since I was 4 years old and used to have rental skis until I turned about 18 and stopped growing (simply because I did not want to buy new skis every single year...). I already did a lot of slalom before and always had a feeling that I could not move "aggressive" enough. Now my new skis are race skis.

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Jul 28, 2017 · Based on your math I think it would be close to double. There are 30 teams and each play 162 games (162 * 30 = 4,860).

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