American Reacts to Norwegian Roller Skiing
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As an American I have never heard about Norwegian Roller Skiing in my life. Today I am very excited to learn about what roller skiing is in Norway and how it works. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
"There's two spring signs where I'm from: dandelions and people on roller skiis. They grow side by side in the road ditch, and one of them is a dying species," - Øystein Sunde, Norwegian musician.
Fun fact øysrein sundø is conciderd by some as the worlds best guitarist.
@@Hattemanen I can see how you could, by accident, manage to write 'øysrein' instead of 'øystein', as 'r' and 't' are right next to each other on a qwerty keyboard, but 'e' and 'ø' are so far apart that writing 'sundø' instead of 'sunde' has to be on purpose, and at that point some might enterpret your whole comment to be made in jest. Never mind that you could have just copy/pasted the name from my comment.
@@Hattemanen I think it was a Canadian guitarist that got the title greatest guitarist many years ago. A intervjuer asked him how it feels to be named the greatest guitarist. The canadian answered, That question you have to go to Norway and ask Øystein Sunde.
I'm pretty sure all competitive skiers use this during the summer training to prepare for the coming season.
Not only sports people many people that like to skii like to roller ski in summer
you should react to skiflying. Thats some truly crazy stuff 😁
And yes, it's very popular, usually see people roller skiing everywhere once the season is off and its less rainy/snowy.
Most if not all large sports chains sell roller skies in Norway. I addition to hard core skiing athletes who need them to prepare for the next winter, they're also a bit of a status symbol for men in midlife crisis who might buy them, use them a few times and then forget them way back in their garage never to be seen again 🙂
Tyler; Check out Ben Ogden, and Jessie Diggins, as two of USA’s most well known cross country athletes. I’m sure they rollerski as well.
The tracks in Holmenkollen shown in this video are used as ordinary cross country and biathlon tracks in the winter when there is snow. All the top cross country skiers and biathlon athletes from Finland, Norway and Sweden in the north to Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic and more in mainland Europe, plus Canada and the U.S. and the UK and Ireland even both practice and compete on roller skies in the summer. For people who can ski roller skies are no more dangerous than ordinary cross country skiing on snow. With one exception: bad motorists causing dangerous situations or even accidents. Sometimes roller ski practice is done on ordinary roads. It is seldom skiers fall when roller skiing, or go off the road, unless it is caused by traffical incidents beyond the roller skier's control.
The first Roller Ski World Cup was held in 1994, so not so niche, but FIS didn't recognize it as official until 1998.
A Norwegian named Arne Skauen is credited the first pantent on roller skis as early as 1932.
In Finland they even have skiing without the skis, they calling it Nordic Walking. Or also called Dementic Skiing.
Roller skiing is common in Sweden to, mostly for them that competes in OS/WM skiing.. 🙂
My daughter (7yr) is attending the local rolling ski club. They are probably around 50-60 people from 4-5yr and up to 50. Rollerskiing is normal here in Norway :)
As a child I thought this was such a strange thing 😅
Now as an adult, I don't even question it. But no matter the age, I always thought it looked too scary to do lol
Please next!!!! you should react to skiflying. Thats some truly crazy stuff 🙂
(sorry for double posting) The statue you saw there at the end (12:32) of the old guy skiing with his dog, is the old King (current kings father), Olav V and his favourite dog doing what he loved the most, being outside in the nature mingling with the 'common folks' with non or very few guards around.
The Holmenkollen ski jump and stadium is less than a mile down the road from where I live. It is a true sign of spring when the roller-skiers are back. They not only use the purpose built track, but also the public roads around here. They are mostly serious amateurs and cross country skiing professionals, while regular people switch to jogging or cycling.
The ski jump simulator zip-line is extremely popular with bachelorette parties, every Saturday in the summertime.
13:25 I believe practically any sports store, or at least the ones that focus more on the hobby section of sporting, would have these things for you to buy. One that immediately comes to mind is the sporting store simply called "XXL"
My friend used to roller ski quite a lot, but usually in places with few hills. When she had a summer job with loads of downhills on the way home, I used to bike to her job for the end of her shift and go with her back home and in downhill sections she would hang on to the back of my bicycle so I could slow us both down
You should react to illustrations of Theodore Kittelsen, which depicts a lot of beings/monsters from norwegian fairy tales and legends. It would be cool to see you learn about the legends and background of monsters like trolls, huldra, draugen, nøkken, pesta and many more
He did that a year ago th-cam.com/video/za4YDaktNDA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=XBUzFeykL9QNco57
The most famous innovation of Finnish Jaakko Keinänen is roller skis, which he invented in the 1980s. Usually competitive skiers train in the summer on roller skis. For a Sunday exerciser, the sport can be unnecessarily demanding, so many exercise enthusiasts prefer roller skates and ski poles.
There are mostly skiing professionals and male CEOs in their forties who do this...
You see people roller-skiing on the roads some times in the summer, but they're usually the very sporty types, or people that do skiing more seriously or professionally during winter. To practice during their off-season. Regular people only go skiing maybe once or twice a winter, and definitely don't rollerski, that's only for the especially interrested haha.
The huge irony and paradox when it was the indigenous Sami who invented cross country skiing, not Norwegians. From the style of skii bindings, two poles, and walking diagonally.
Mostly athletes use roller skies to stay in shape and keep technique through the summer, fall. Its not the most safe things to strap on, you got no brakes so its not for people wanting to learn to ski. It is the closest you get to real skiing without snow.
You also got two types of roller skies. The 'classic' style (where you lift the heel off the rear) with the front wheel only rolling on direction so you can "Kick off" going forward, just like on skies. Then you got the roller skies for 'skating'. They got larger wheels and only two of them, with both wheels rolling freely.
I’m Swedish. My father used to compete in triathlons, so he ran, biked and rolled skied pretty much everywhere we went. I (and my 3 siblings) was fine with him running/ biking but was mortified when he came on roller ski’s..
In the summer I'll see someone on roller skis about 3-4 times per week. Some times you see a whole team going by.
Swedes also have them
You should check out ski-jumping in summertime;)
(and ski-flying on snow,. They jump 250 meter or more in the largest hills)
I saw the American Gus Schumacher winning Men's 10km freestyle race at the Loppet World Cup yesterday on TV, second and third place was to Norway.. but damn you might need to start watching.. The World cup is even in the US now, so he won on home terf :)
Tyler; I hope you will find time to check out and react to Norways contribution to this years Eurovision Song Contest. By "Gåte". It may win. There are already lots of "Reaction videos" on TH-cam. The song is called "Ulveham".
As a Norwegian, I can attest to the fact that this sadly mostly true. Lots of us do sane stuff like powerliftling, too, though. :)
Oh, people do this for fun as well. I am not one if them. My neighbour is though. She asked if I wanted to try and I said it would be a bad way for to spend her day off - she is a paramedic.
You need to use your balance a lot when you’re moving up and down slopes, and like with rollerblades sometimes you need to raise your feet when you are a bit off course. So balance is key. The one good thing is the skiing sticks that are great on flat surfaces to help your balance. Great for upward hills, A big shame they have 0 use on a downward hill 🙈 the warning sign really said it all.
In my town of bergen, they built a 3km long tunnel only dedicated to jogg or do this kind of roller skiing.
They need elbow pads tho since they fall can break there arms. Since they fell on the floor a lot why they only got a cut elbow. No cut legs
Been around forever and there are races in Minnesota, Colorado, etc.
Summer time for skiiers~
Most of the world: "Time for a break!"
Norway: *changes footwear
Hi!
It's been 30 years since I moved to Norway. I left my French nationality to become Norwegian. Same thing with my formerly Mexican wife.
Norway is a unique country that is difficult to understand if you don't experience it from the inside.
many things impossible in other places are the norm here.
Some facts that you may not know.
All details of tax returns are accessible to everyone.
If someone views my tax return, I will then be notified of the identity of the person who viewed it.
For example, you can ask to see all the tax declarations of residents of the same street, or of people with the same name, etc. This would be impossible in France.
I live in Bergen, the 2nd largest city in Norway. Every summer, the garden store on my street is too small to store all the items for sale. As a result, there are 50m of merchandise outside on the sidewalk day and night for several weeks. Last summer, I estimated that there was $22,000 worth of merchandise left unattended outside day and night. No one would think of stealing anything there.
I am particularly distracted, and I have already forgotten my bag twice on the bus with money, papers and phone inside. (Urban bus passing through the city center during rush hour). Both times, an hour and a half later when the bus returned to the bus stop where I had gotten off, forgetting my things, I found my things on the seat where I had left them.
I remember that in the early 2000s, Hordaland (Bergen region) went almost 2 years without a fatal traffic accident.
When someone drinks, even just one drink, NO ONE gets behind the wheel. When I return to France, I am horrified at every family reunion about this behavior.
You NEVER enter people's homes with your shoes on. Everyone in socks.
Norway is the country with the most Olympic gold medals per capita (alltime).
Moreover, in 2023, all results compared to the size of their respective populations, of all the countries in the world it is Norway which then obtains the best sporting results (in the 17 most practiced sports in the world, well well far ahead of the USA).
The longest road tunnel is in Norway (Lærdalstunnel). The deepest too (Eiksundstunnel).
Besides, there are so many tunnels in Norway that we even find impressive roundabouts inside the mountains!!
Likewise, Atlanterhavsveien is one of the most incredible roads in the world.
more than 30% of cars in Bergen are electric (world record).
etc. Norway is simply incredible
You should check out the sapmi skiing with raindeers
This is the reason how norway winn gold. We ski even in summer 😂
Yes. All year around. He should react to Lysebotn opp too.
You do have competition in roller skiing, which some of the cross country ⛷️ will participate in. I come from the country side and skiing is a big thing there, a lot of people competing in cross country skiing and they will in the part of the year without snow train on roller ski. I used to sometimes see a friend of mine coming down the road where I grew up on those.
most sport stores in Norway sell those if you need, or can get hold of them.
1st. my eggs breakfeast tasted amazing to your skiing video Tyler!
Watch it catch on like crazy in AMerica, They will probably want it in the Olympics
People in Sweden roller skiis to.
There are many security items that they could/should use. I'm surprised that they don't use any of them.
5:42
The heel off the ski thing is a cross country skiing thing and not specific to roller skies.
10:06
It's definitely not a "all the norwegians do this" kind of thing.
But I still see people on them every single summer on the roads etc...
Yes,way!😊
I’m Norwegian, no sport fanatic, and a pretty lazy excerciser. But even I used to own (and sporadically use) a pair of rollerskis.
I think everyone who has some experience of normal cross-country skiing, and who does it as a hobby, has doubts when it comes to roller skiing. Men who feel the need to prove to themselves that they still have umpf when they approach 40 might consider trying roller skiing, but I don't think they impress anyone but themselves (if they master it), because most people will see it as stupidity unless you do it out of necessity because you are an active skier.
they even do this in the roads. and if you know that manny roads are so smal to pass with 2 trucks on one time, it gets interesting. like you can see on video. there are places they can do this in a safe way. manny of these intiteled people, believe they own the roads however. guess many are just suicidal... used to be a trucker for almost 30 years. had some scary moments.
That’s how many olympic skiers practice in the summer
Rulleskihopp i Holmenkollen 🤣
Take a look at rollerski world cup 2023 👍😊
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The straps are basically the same as for langrends ski. So only 20% of your foot is strapped to the ski. We all tend to start on langrend ski in Scandinavia and then find we love slalom more.. 😅
Take it from a HEMA practitioner; your rarely find the fun sporting equipment in the regular store.
Hvor var du da Oddvar Brå brakk staven? hehe
Hehe
Tror jeg var på skolen eller vi hadde vinterferie!
The world gets in shape for bikini season. We get in shape for the winter and the cross country skiing.
I svear the first time I ever saw this here in Norway my first thought was : ok, Norwegians has finely lost it 😂😂. But thats decades ago
No brakes! But some broken legs?
This is mostly for ski nerds 😁
Is that used 22LR cartridges???? WHY?? At 12:45, I suppose I'll get an answer.
No, I didn't.
Spent cartridges from the sport of biathlon.
Skiing and shooting compined is biathlon. I quess they hold large races there. Ski,shoot five targets standing,ski,shoot five targets laying down. U ski rifle on your back
Normal 😅
Just asking, Haven you ever heard/see roller skates? That rolling skii is just normal thing in Nordic countries.
Det är inget som bara finns i Norge. I alla länder där man utövar längdåkning och där det inte finns snö som på sommaren tränar med rullskidor. Inget konstigt med det.
Hey Tyler. Have you received the gift from us yet? 😁
it is annoying here in the summer we have so much tourists here and also alot of ppl roller skiing alot of them almost drived me over several of times should be like segways in norway illegal..... beacuse here it is a walking path and not a rollerski track -.-
Today there are several summer ski centers scattered around Norway. It is a facility that has even held European Championships. But for the ordinary man in the street, he hates every time a ski group is out training, because they use the roads to train on until the snow comes. And they can walk up to three people next to each other, and pay little attention to motorists, and when a group can be up to 50 people, it can take a long time to get past them! Because they "own" the road when they train. And can behave like real idiots.
You guys(Mericans) use roller skis to..
Hvorfor skulle det ikke hvert virkelig….?
Ah okay im norwegian- and ya
Yes, you don't win Olympic medals if you spend half the year relaxing and waiting for snow.
it's not that dangerous, my nephew (9) and niece (6) is doing it.
I can tell you; this is really dangerous!!! There aren't any good ways to slow down quickly, so if yo go down a hill in 60km/h and crash, you'l be in hospital :D
Or, in June, July, August, elite skiers could go train in places like Chile....
(Dumbo)
Former pro weirdo😂
Tyler: "I haven't skied at all."
No! The heck you say! Must be the lack of mountains in America -- which also lacks oceans, rivers, lakes, forests, canyons, deserts, gyms, stadiums....
Dude😂usa has bigger Mountains than norway, more ocean. Bigger longer rivers,bigger lakes, bigger canyon tham europe. More deserts than europe and stadiums
You do know America has all those things right? lol
@@royramse7389 Wooshhh, I believe that the humorous reference of Tyler (or americans in general) lacking stuff just flew over your head...
Not so far from Roller Skate....
Not ALL of the Norwegians do this. But there are enough of them to really be in the way of people driving cars. ;) I hate skiing, with or withouh weels. I should probably have been born in another country. :D
Pillow fighting is a "sport," too....
Niche ridiculousness knows no borders.
(Imagine Tyler:" Oh, I bet people use rowing machines to train for rowing when they can't get to water.")
What?! TYLER giving a critique to Norway about lack of safety features?!
Yes. Damn. We got those roller skiers. Seem to lack those totally safe guns all over our country though. I wonder which one causes more death.
Tbh I. Norwegian in my early 40 ths I have not touched skis since 1997 I hate that stuff to skii is pain
Only weird people ride on those
What? What?