PLATES

On the level.—(i.)

Stopping a back-slip.—(ii.)

Before kick-turn.—(iii.)

Kick-turn.—(iv.)

Kick-turn.—(v.)

Kick-turn.—(vi.)

Kick-turn.—(viia.)

Kick-turn: wrong position.—(viib.)

Kick-turn: finished.—(viii.)

Herring-boning.—(ix.)

Side-stepping.—(x.)

h.b., Herring-boning; k., Kick-turn; s., Side-stepping; h.s., half-side-stepping.—(xa.)

(Uphill track showing application of various methods of hill-climbing.)

Scraping right ski.—(xi.)

Scraping left ski.—(xii.)

Starting a run on hillside.—(xiii.)

Straight-running: normal position.—(xiv.)

Straight-running: normal position.—(xv.)

Straight-running: how not to do it.—(xvi.)

Straight-running: Telemark position.—(xvii.)

Straight-running: Telemark position.—(xviii.)

Straight-running: Telemark position.—(xix.)

Snow-ploughing (stemming with both skis).—(xx.)

Braking with the sticks.—(xxi.)

Stemming with one ski, or start of a downhill stemming-turn to left.—(xxii.)

Downhill stemming-turn to left: halfway round.—(xxiii.)

Finish of stemming-turn to left.—(xxiv.)

Unsuccessful stemming-turn to left: result of wrong balance or position.—(xxv.)

Track of downhill stemming-turns.—(xxvi.)

Downhill stemming-turn to left in soft snow (note wide stride and edged skis).—(xxvii.)

How not to make a stemming-turn.—(xxviii.)

Uphill Telemark swing to left.—(xxix.)

Uphill Telemark swing to left: wrong balance and position of skis.—(xxx.)

Uphill Telemark swing to left (seen from above).—(xxxi.)

Downhill Telemark swing to left.—(xxxii.)

Track of downhill Telemark swings.—(xxxiii.)

Starting an uphill Christiania swing to the right from traversing.—(xxiv.)

Starting an uphill Christiania swing to the right from a direct descent.—(xxxv.)

Finish of uphill Christiania swing to right.—(xxxvi.)

Bad finish of uphill Christiania swing to right.—(xxxvii.)

Start of a downhill Christiania swing to right.—(xxxviii.)

Bad finish of uphill Christiania swing to right.—(xxxix.)

Uphill Christiania swing to right (seen from above).—(xl.)

Finish of uphill Christiania swing to right (seen from below).—(xli.)

Track of downhill Christiania swings.—(xlii.)

Downhill Christiania swing to right: halfway round.—(xliii.)

Photo by L. Büttner.

“Jerked” Christiania swing to right (note position of arms and shoulders).—(xliv.)

Downhill Telemark swing to left (seen from above).—(xlv.)

Uphill Telemark swing to right.—(xlvi.)

Jumping round to the left: bad position of skis.—(xlvii.)

Jumping round to the right.—(xlviii.)

Jumping.—(xlix.)

Photo by L. Büttner.

Jumping.—(l.)

Photo by L. Büttner.

Jumping.—(li.)

Preparing for the “Sats.”—(lii.)

Making the “Sats.”—(liii.)

Hans Klopfenstein jumping (winner of inter-Swiss Championship, 1910).—(liv.)

Landing from a Jump.—(lv.)

Jumper just clear of the platform (seen from above).—(lvi.)

Harald Smith jumping at Adelboden, 1909 (photographed from under the platform).—(lvii.)

How to carry the skis.—(lviii.)

How to carry the skis.—(lix.)

(The stick resting on the right shoulder takes some weight off the other.)