Why Norwegians Are SO GOOD at Skiing | American Reacts (Part 2)
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As an American I have heard about how dominant Norway is at skiing. Today I am very interested continuing to learn about the reasons and history why Norwegians are so amazing at skiing. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
Biathlon has military origins. The "idea" is to be able to control your breathing and pulse - as it is very difficult to keep a steady aim when your heart is racing and you are gasping for air.
Many seem to think they use air rifles for this - but it is "real" guns firing .22 LR. Not that long ago military rifles were used in biathlon firing NATO standard ammunition.
Jessica Diggins, a American, is very popular in Norway.
They jump 130m. That's 426 feet. An American football field is 360 feet long. That sort of puts it into perspective, I think. :)
Then there Is “ski flying” in the largest hills, where they go a bit beyond 200 meters.
They jump 230 meters+ in skiflying.world record is about 240 meters😊
@@TomVestvik I think, in Vikarsund , Norway, the world record is 252, stending, not falling. It's a 'battle' with Planica, who had the world record🤐😁
Tyler, there is a skijumping hill in the US state of Michigan with a telling name: Suicide Hill. The hill is 99 years old.
Working in IT networking, the time of year we see the most internet usage is when there is "Langrenn", Cross country skiing, olypics.
You didn't mention , when there are winter Olympics and the cross country relays 😁 at these time employees had to forbid the TV watching of events😄
They didn’t mention the ‘Nordic Combined’ in this video.
First you have ski jumping then they convert the points into seconds and then you have cross-country skiing.
Norway does quite well there to.
I thought of it cause it is a very unique sport as well.
You should know about Jessica Diggens. She is a cross country skier from the USA 🤪 Greetings from Norway ❤ And yes, we will dominate winter sports the next 100 years 😂
There is one movie about a young man that wanted to be an olympic atlete, he made it, with a little bit help from norwegians. He captured my heart, and I cheered him on, knowing that he would not win, but he won the norwegians heart, and we lovedhis spirit!
You should watch that movie, Eddie the Eagle. With Hugh Jackman and Taron Egerton (as Michael Edwards).
As far as I know...the world record in "longjump", as you call it is 253 meters. By Stefan Kraft, he is from Austria, but the jump was made in Norway, in Vikersund. I think my longest one was about 30 meters, but that was on "slalom skies". :D
You should search up "The History of Holmekollen". Where they write about the history of Norwegian Ski Jumping. In 1922 our old Norwegian King Olav was also ski jumping in Holmekollen.
Cross country skiing varies from the sprint runs that last 2-3 minutes to 50km races that last 2-3 hours. There is also long distance races to over 100km. Near where I live are the Vikersund bakkene with ski jumping hills where you can jump from 5m to 250m and over.
My man! I hope you find tons of more norwegian stuff to react to, because you're kinda addictive. I don't wait for skiing on TV, news or documentaries, I wait for YOU, Tyler, and that scottish reaction-guy that lives in Asia, Slapped Ham, Watchers (Shane and Ryan from Buzzfeed) and Nuke's top 5... and some times Failarmy... :P youtrube is my daily entertainment and I need no more... maybe the weatherforecast and Huskestue.
Its wierd biathalon is not more popular in usa, since you stop to shoot a gun several places while racing😄
There are 115 ski jumps if different sizes in the USA, 2 more than in canada.
US citizen Jessica Diggens is currently one of the top female cross country skiers. Kikkan Randall was very good too, and the female US cross country relay team is a major competitor in Olympics and World Cup with several medals.
You should react to Norways entry to the Eurovision this year. The national winner is Gåte (riddle) with the song Ulveham (Wolfskin). It is a very old story, a folklore, with dark undertones.
You actually can ski or do alpine skiing all year in Norway, using the glaciers. At Folgefonna glacier the season do not start before late April/early May due to too much snow. At winter you can hardly find the skilift structures, it is all under meters of snow. Their season last until August...
Tyler; maybe you could go even further into this topic. American film maker David Hoffmann's film about a Nato exercise in Norway in the eighties. About US Marines. That is also a lot about skiing.
In long jump (skihopp) there is a subcategory for the toughest athletes. There they jump up to 250 metres. 1/4 of a kilometer.
This weekend there are Biathlon competitions in Soldier Hollow in Utah 😊
Norway does not allow ranked competitions in any sport for children until the age of 11. We are living proof that "participation medals" work just fine.
Check out Vikersund skiflyging hill, world longest skijump, in Norway of course.
There are certainly ski jumping hills in the US. Salt Lake City, Lake Placid ect. You should react to a video about ski jumping and ski flying!
We call the winter Olympics our Norwegian National Championship open for other nations.😉
What i find so cool is that one of our golden girls og skiing Therese Johaug. One of thebest had her child on may 17th... Our constitution day... (Like the american 4th of july) The most norwegian day of them all.😂😂😂
If you want to see what happens when you fall while skijumping you car react to Daniel Andre Tande's fall in Planica
"Norway" in the US is a 704 ft double black diamond singletrack trail located near Aspen Mountain Colorado
Please react to a video about ski jumping
the footage is very old, you are reacting to. They all have retired. Now in cross country it's. JohannesH, Klæbo and Biathlon Johannes T. Bø (also known as JTB)
Serious with a smile :)
I find it so funny that I am literally watching the womens Holmenkollen cross-country skiing while also watching this.
Seriously come to Norway we will pay for it
If you wanna come to Norway, you can stay at my place for free, i pick you up at airport, and show you the country🤙
The best female cross-country skier right now is American and her name is Jessica Diggins
Please go to Norway and stay there to att least 17th May( our national day where no one gets to drive👹 )
You really don't pay attention and it happens a lot.
"I don't know how old this data is"
On screen it says "In the winter Olympics the last 100 years won"
It literally tells you how old the data is.
Tyler: We Norwegians are great at everything. We even made America great for crying out loud. The only thing we can't do is how to make a real Italian pizza instead of that grandiosa goop.
Peppe's make great pizzas. That chain is Norwegian, and have been serving, in restaurant and take away, pizzas for Norwegians for more than 5 decades.
@@Tvjunkieful12 I know that... But a pizza at peppe's cost the same as a small car.
@@hansmarheim7620 Really? Two chickenbreast costs kr 79.80. A large pizza from Peppes is kr 278. That is kr 139 if shared by 2. If you were to buy cod or filet mignon for dinner you would have to pay more than kr 139 for each if two. Two chicken breast being enough for one person, you would have to add the price of the rice, pasta or chips, plus the costs of eventual vegetables. So all in all a Peppe's pizza is not that expencive, if you factor in the extra time off you get by not spending around one hour preparing dinner, just having it ordered and picked up in less than half an hour. I never buy Grandiosa, Dr Oetker or any other frozen pizzas from the supermarket, but order or eat at Peppes 3 to 4 times a month. This last week I ordered a Peppe's yesterday, and ate in one of the Peppe's restaurants on Tuesday. The one on Tuesday was in connection with work.
Feb 18, 2024 - Schumacher cruised to victory on home turf in front of 20,000 fans in Minneapolis to take his first World Cup victory in the 10km cross-country race.
Americans' turning point - now they laugh at Norway: - Not to be rude. For many years, the American skiers went to Norway. That has long since ended, we are to believe the biggest stars. It is easy to look at the Norwegians and think that you should do like them, but the USA has started to deliver good results and we can be confident in our own decisions. Then we can rather laugh at others, says Ben Ogden to Nettavisen.
He cites an example from earlier this winter, when he realized that both he and the rest of the American team were confident about their own method of progress.
- Over Christmas, when we all had our own training plans and tried to rest and do what was best for us before the tour, my training mate checked Strava and saw that Hans Christer Holund had been out on a seven-hour tour in the Norwegian mountains. Once upon a time we thought "shit, that's what it takes to be the best". But now, not to sound rude, we looked at it and thought 'what is he doing?', smiles the up-and-coming skier.
There are hundreds of Norwegian skiers Schumacher would struggle with on a good day. But because there is a limit to how many the various teams can have on their national teams, Schumacher only have to face a handful of them. In addition, because of the additional costs of flying to Canada and the U.S, many European teams brought a reduced stable accross the Atlantic where Schumacher won. I am not saying that Schumacher isn't good, but the far best U.S. skier is Jessie Diggins. She is very often in the top 3 or top 6 - even when there is a full starting field of the best in the world. Schumacher have more often double digit placings than single digit ones. Diggins have been gradually climbing over many years, and been among the best the last seasons. Schumacher and the other men - and certainly Ben Ogden - have not been within distance of the podium as often as Jessie Diggins have been on it. So if you are going to brag about U.S. cross country achievements - brag about the one with the greatest of them. Had it not been for the Swedish ladies - they dominate female cross country skiing, particularly the sprint, as forcefully as the Norwegian men do the male category - Jessie Diggins would have won the World Cup this season with clear margine.
Hans Christer Holund retired after last season (March 2023). He is now cross country expert commentator for Norwegian Tv3/Viasat. So if he went for a 7 hour cross country trip last December it was for his own leisure. Holund, when he was active, was also known for his ability to maintain high speed from early on in the race - and maintain it all the way to the finishing line. So no wonder that require longer training intervals, than for those skiers who do everything from sprint to the 50k, like Johannes Høsflot Klæbo. The Norwegian who despite only being 27 is one of - if not the - best skier of all times. Not only because of the many Olympic and World Champion golds he have won, or how often he has won the World Cup both for Sprint and overall, or won Tour de Ski overall, but because of his magic ability to be faster than any competitor on the more lenier and downhill parts of the track. His technique and his execution of it is quite simply superior to any of his competitors. Thanks to that superior technique he has so much strength and energy left at the end of the race, he more often than not sprints in to victory.
It's easy to be world champion,when you are the only one competing😂
Bode Miller.
1.6 million people went cross country skiing in 2021, so the numbers in this video is a bit low :)
Google Jessica Diggins and you will see that Americans are also serious about skiing. And many more of course...
The whole Norwegians are amazing skiers is weird to me.. I would say that the germans. The Norwegians. The swedes. The French the swiss. The Austrians. The Italians and sometimes even the danes can be great skiers.. But people in denver colorado can be great skiers. Danes do langrend so to be good at slalom we have to bugger off to some of the other places. But i was a great skier by the time i hit my teens. Full on bond mode 😊
Skiing and handball women are one of the most popular too beeing watched. I would say between 1 and 2 millions people could watch that.
Soccer ain't popular at all because we are so bad at it. I mean some people will always watch it, but nothing compare too skiing and handball.
Apart from the Eurovision Song Contest, some of the most watched tv transmitions in Norwegian history have been football matches? The reason viewer figures are down is that smaller channels have the rights to football matches thesedays. Viewing figures are down for skiing too, now that some races are on one channel, and the next race on a completely different channel the week after, and as a result people don't know where to find it. The same applies to football.
I only can think of one american girl skiier she wasnt that half bad looking 10 years ago. Lindsay Vonn
Mm.. one probably need to grow up in a Nordic country, to understand?
What are you supose to do those few hours, when its daylight, one have ones skies.. and friends, lets make skijump or a downhill fun, lets have fun!
Another thing is that sport is outside school, there is a lot of small local sportclubs, totaly volontary.. parents supose to volontair, and often get comunal suport! In anyway the comunity for the moste part provide and pay for the facilities! Its this.. its paybacktime, for all the taxes, a lot of it shall go to our kids.. our future!
You use a lot of other people's footage. Shouldn't you have learnt to properly appreciate their effort by including a direct link in the description? I'd suggest adding it right at the beginning.
Cross countrys ski menn 5mil Girls 3mil
No, 50 km and 30 km. 😊
its fun until you try a double backflip on skis and land on your back🥲
"You must feel like you're flying" when ski jumping.
Ah, flying -- a very American thing, from the Wright Brothers to the Apollo astronauts to pilots of stealth bombers.
God, you're so far up your own country's ass, it's embarrassing...
😩 P r o m o S M
USA is very balanced by adding to its Winter Olympics haul with being 1st (by a long margin) in Summer Olympics medals. What does Norway add to its 1st position at Winter medals? 2nd in Summer medals? No. 3rd in Summer medals? No. 4th? No. ...
One man One mission 😂
Per capita is very skewed towards small countries in things like the Olympics, Nobel prizes, etc. St. Lucia has the most Nobel prizes per capita. Does that say anything meaingful about St. Lucia and the rest of the world? No.
As if US achievements isn't skewed by the size of the country.. ha ha
Keep in mind that with a higher population the chance you have the top athlete is higher. And with so many you also have potentially more good people that can compete at the top level.
USA could easily dominate in winter sports if there was a culture for it, but there is not.
They already have big names like Jessie Diggins (cross-country), who won the 2021 world up, and Mikaela Shiffrin (alpine) who has 5 overall cup wins.
You're so "brilliant." There's a lot of snow in Norway,; that makes them good at skiing.
(There are a lot of swimming pools, golf courses, etc. in the US; that makes Americans good at swimming, golf, etc.)
What a concept! You're so "brilliant."
We had one good swimmer he died tho. Alexander Dale Oen
sigh