Cross country skating

[Skittl1321]

Interesting article about nordic skating.

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080224/LIFE09/802240332/1052/LIFE

This quote made me laugh
Figure skating - like the lessons I took a few years ago - doesn't help much if you're used to using the skate's toe pick to kick off from, Hess said.

Clearly, someone taught her to figure skate WRONG.

[smelltheice]

there was an article about the origins of skating in a BBC science magazine this month. It seems the ancestors of the finns and the russians used bones that were shaped and tied to their footwear to get around the areas that had a high concentration of lakes that froze much of the year round. It said it took much less effort to skate than to walk.

http://www.focusmag.co.uk/