Fun for the very bravest – Dagbladet.no

Rune Velta went to the last man out of the jump, as if this were the most natural he could do as Norwegian. Let’s be honest, even in a year where ski jumping is stronger internationally than ever and Norway suddenly is top notch:

•• This is no longer the people our sport.

during the new world master Life from 1989 is about 8 out of 10 active jumpers disappeared. Now it’s under four hundred again from 13-year class and upwards, and it is only the elders grandfather generation reminisces about those days there was a queue of boys who competed on the slopes Norway around.

When was discouraged weighed ski jumps, and no one spoke about that you had to be easy to fly. For almost all the guys were the meager that such was not anything to talk about.

It was just being normally good skiing.

SKIP as competitive sports , has long been a Norwegian niche sport. A few of the kids have included curiosity and audacity his away to the halfpipe, but with winter toys and courage are no longer the obvious combination among Norwegian children. Nevertheless elevates us adults still high time after time.

As for example in seconds when most stood quietly in the small ski jump in Falun yesterday evening and German Severin Freund in executive chair fiddled with the sleeves of the bit for long super jersey while he and the rest of us waited for the outcome of computers:

– Then it was as far as I managed to stand, said Rune afterwards and it is to understand for someone who immediately would become world champion without having won a single race in the World Cup.

It had however Severin Superb. He had also supplied the competition’s longest and most beautiful jumps, but then there was this with computers and jumping sport new approach to calculate the rettferdigste of weather.

PROBABLY is it technological grip mated with the carefully orchestrated laser beam that lures green in outrun for every jump, which radically has lifted the sport as a TV sport.

Last season climbed it with a total 2.9 billion viewers past brother downhill on TV polls. The reason is the success in the largest European markets where the results of German and Polish jumpers whips up the mood.

If it should be necessary for us on a night where a silent, grateful Norwegian boy after the excruciating wait time crept 0 , 4 points ahead of Severin Freund.

THE , however necessary, is taking care of the little active environment that is still there. It was probably why the delightful enthusiastic, hardworking jump boss Steinar Bråten on the fly thanks almost every member of the Norwegian jumping family for this World Cup gold.

There is reason for it. Skip been volunteer to help those few brave. Rune Velta their own training environment; Kollenhopp is like umbrella club for the entire Oslo area Norway’s largest. According last festskrift counts not more than 54 active jumpers older than 12 years. It is much smaller than a single cohort in a medium-sized Norwegian football club. With football all sports have most of 1950 -0g 60s queue of boys to jumps moved there.

the important is the means jumping people use to make niche their sport nicest possible for those who still dare to be part of this fun. In recent years it has been very closely and thoughtfully leaps family. It is therefore Rune Velta has been joined by the talented junior coach Magnus Breive into the national team, and that is why the imported Austrian capacity Alexander Stöckl so wise and steady constantly promises until new top athletes from the limited talent base.

In Additionally, jumping people do something smart in it to teach patience. The last winters have the youngest competed by level instead of age limits, and so made it enjoyable for everyone to participate.

Meanwhile, the purposeful focus on girls given an entirely different platform to take care of the local communities. At best this is to sense in today’s World Championship event with mix team jumping event. Admittedly girl commitment not yet managed to make Norway a superpower in the senior class, but with two of the last two world champions among the guys in the small hill this may be good enough anyway.

At least for all of us Norwegian who now just watching.