#winter sports
Nacktwandern wird auch in der Schweiz immer beliebter, obwohl es dort verboten ist und auch gelegentlich bestraft wird. Sogar im Winter wird splitternackt gewandert.
Ich bin mir aber nicht sicher ob es so gut für unsere Freikörperkultur ist, wenn in dem Bericht so getanwird, als wäre FKK gefährlich für Kinder. Warum ziehen die Nudisten sich etwas an sobald Kinder in der Nähe sind?
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Velké Karlovice. 1946. Ladislav Horak.
23 3/8 x 33 ¼ in./59.2 x 84.5 cm
Hardy, rustic and rogue, this determined skier brings color, strength and fortitude to the placid hamlet of Velké Karlovice, a town in the middle of the Czech Republic’s prime winter sports areas.
Available at auction February 25, 2018.
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Last season was a lot of firsts: first full snowboarding season, first box, first rail, first time in VT, first time over 30 mph, first 3 mile run (on a board), first cracked helmet, first collision with a skier, first black diamond, first double black. Crazy how much your life can change in a few months! Got to know and love a group of badasses with the biggest hearts and ironclad livers.
I never thought I would want to hit anything park EVER - why would I want to hit anything metal??- until I met a female snowboarder that inspired and EMPOWERED me. I hit my first box the very next day because of her, and I’m so lucky to call her a good friend now. Female empowerment and representation matters so much!
So excited for this next season and upcoming winter!!
So, I’m not a sports person, but find me a more impressive feat of athleticism than pairs ice dancing. Oh, you do gymnastics? Great. Can you do it while dancing? Oh, you dance? Nice. Can you do it on ice? Oh, you skate? Cool. Can you do it while defying gravity?
The only athletes who can confidently say yes to all these questions in equal measure, are pairs ice dancers. And that’s just the athletic portion of what they have to do. They’re also expected to add artistry and tell a story through their movement; this includes gestures, and facial expressions along with precision-timed choreography to music.
It’s not enough that they’re expected to be in peak physical condition. They also have to be performers who engage the audience and judges with memorable and impressive routines.
And they do this all without protective equipment or gear. If they fall, or misstep, they can seriously injure themselves or their partner. That takes fearlessness, dedication, confidence in their skills, and trust in their partner; you’re simply not going to see anything like it from any other discipline.
Show me a more impressive sport.
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Erle Reiter, Minneapolis Winter Olympian
The world’s best winter athletes are gathering in Beijing this month for the 2022 Winter Olympics. When athletes met in Garmich-Partenkirchen, Germany, for the 1936 Winter Olympic Games, the top two American men’s figure skaters were both from the Twin Cities. Robin Lee of Saint Paul had won the U.S. National Championships and Erle Reiter of Minneapolis had taken second. Reiter’s papers, including handwritten notes for his skating programs and mementos from his Olympic experience, are now an archival collection in Special Collections.
Reiter grew up in Linden Hills and first fell in love with skating as a seven-year-old on a homemade ice rink in his backyard. As a teenager, Reiter took lessons locally at the Minneapolis Arena and studied with leading skaters at the Skating Club of New York. When he finished second at the U.S. National Championships in 1936, he secured a spot for the 1936 Olympics in Germany.
Under the looming specter of Nazism, Reiter and the rest of the Olympic team travelled to Bavaria to compete. The armband that Reiter wore in competition, as well as his Olympic identification card, passport, daily competition schedules, and souvenirs from his time in Garmich-Partenkirchen are included in the archival collection. Neither Reiter nor Robin Lee left Germany with an Olympic medal. Lee finished 12th and Reiter came in 13th.
After the Olympics, Reiter continued to skate. He won two more silver medals at the U.S. National Championships in 1937 and 1938. Rather than continue to train for the 1940 Olympics, Reiter became a professional skater in 1939. Together with other famous skaters of the era, he was a featured performer at a recurring ice show at New York’s St. Regis Hotel. Reiter made a good decision, it turns out, since the 1940 and 1944 Olympics were both cancelled due to World War II.
Reiter served in the U.S. Army during the war and returned home to Minneapolis after its end. With his wife, Helen, Reiter raised two sons. He was an active member of the Minnetonka and Calhoun Yacht Clubs, and he continued to figure skate into his 80s. Erle Reiter died December 3, 2008, and is buried in Lakewood Cemetery.
Photos of Erle Reiter and documents from the Erle Reiter Papers. Visit Special Collections to see this and other archival collections.
skiers fleeing from the heavy snow & fog - Zillertal, Austria, february 2022
it’ll always be kind of funny to me that so many skiers and boarders flee into the restaurants once it really starts snowing. for me, those are the days that I really enjoy boarding. a nice fresh layer of snow everytime you go down the mountain, what more could you want?
photo by: nature-hiking
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ARTISTS | JONATHAN SCHULE | DAVID RYLE
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PHOTOGRAPHER | CHARLIE SURBEY
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AHHH THE WINTER SUN - sharp and clear. Time to take a break, breath the frozen air and enjoy the snowy landscape before we ride on. Somehow the winter sharpens the senses and thoughts become deep as we stare on into the horizon, finding ourselves and inner energy. Then we ride!
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Some pics from the story Deux Sœurs au Ski in February issue of the french magazine Histoires Pour les Petits!
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