Abstract
Skiing is very popular, and many people practice it for fun, sports enjoyment, for health benefits, in short, for a feeling of so-called well- being. In order to ensure safe skiing, different training methodologies for teaching skiing are being developed throughout the skiing world,, which have their own specifics with regard to individual countries and their skiing population. The aim of the study is to compare these training methodologies in the Czech Republic, Austria, Italy, France, New Zealand and Canada.
Qualitative research was conducted and the methodologies of individual member organizations associated in INTERSKI, updated for winter season 2021/2022, were compared. We focused mainly on the inclusion of vertical movement training. It turned out that in Anglo-Saxon countries the emphasis on vertical movement is less than in
European, or mainly in Austria and Czech Republic. Vertical movement is practiced for the needs of regulating the forces between the ski and the slope, and for the needs of the Czech slopes, we still consider this sklil very useful. In a basic carving turn, there is no need to accentuate it. Movement in the lateral direction plays an imprtant role. The snow plugh is suitable to be included primarily for speed regulation and can be found in all the monitored methodologies. Using of the poles is not necessary for carving. We recimmend it fot the skiidded turns.