Although speed skiing is popular among fans, it has not been made an official Olympic sport, largely due to its dangerous nature. There are around 30 speed skiing courses worldwide, each following the strict guidelines set out by the sport. The racer that is able to produce the fastest time within the timing zone is the winner. The skiers then use about half the course to slow down from their blistering speeds before reaching the crowd at the bottom. Towards the middle of the slope, there is a 100 meter “timing zone” where the exact speed of the racers is monitored. The rules of the sport are simple, each skier takes turns flying down a steeply slanted course for a kilometer. Speed skiing, appropriately named, is the sport where skiers compete for speed down a slope. Part 1: What is Speed Skiing and its History? Finally, we will analyze the technological changes that lead to records being shattered. Then we will take a look at the data, and extrapolate what the future holds for speed skiing. First we will cover the history of speed skiing, and major events in the sport. Specifically, how technology has paved the way for the blistering speed we take for granted today in the sport. Today, we cover the second part: technology and speed skiing. Much of this can be attributed to the athletes for their daring attitude during races, and much can be attributed to the exponential advancement of technology over that time frame. In fact, the world record has nearly doubled in speed during the last century of racing. Speed skiing has come a long way since its beginnings. Today, the sport is recognized by the International Ski Federation and is raced worldwide. Through time and competition, speed skiing gained popularity and legitimacy. Eventually, this culminated into an extreme sport called speed skiing. For as long as skiing has existed, it is thought that people have tested their abilities to ski as fast as they can. No matter the task, activity, or operation, curiosity inevitably peaks one’s mind to wonder how fast it can be done. Verify that "Open SwiftRead, auto extract content" is set to "Alt+V" (or your desired shortcut).Downhill Ski Racer Speeding Down, a photograph by David Madison, Provided by Getty ImagesĮxploring speed is human nature. If the Alt+V shortcut doesn't seem to work: Visit your Chrome extension shortcuts at "chrome://extensions/shortcuts". This is to help me make SwiftRead the most helpful it can be! The analytics code cannot see anything you do outside the SwiftRead window, and it only records visits to SwiftRead and button clicks, nothing else.Ĭopyright SwiftRead. NOTE: SwiftRead uses analytics code, such as from Google Analytics, so that I can measure how many people are using the extension. Sign-up to the SwiftRead mailing list for updates and other goodies!. Your support makes my work possible, and I'm tremendously grateful. As a result, I'm always making SwiftRead better! Please email me at with any bugs or features you would find helpful. I'm proud to be an independent developer, which means my only goal is to serve you, the user of the things that I build. I've always been a slow reader due to subvocalization it's not even an issue with SwiftRead and I can read over three times as fast as I did conventionally. SwiftRead has helped me pull up my test scores, and I am eternally grateful." With SwiftRead I can actually finish reading the online textbook material we're assigned, which I normally would have skipped. "I am partially dyslexic and pursuing my doctorate of pharmacy. Using this for only a week I now read at 500 WPM! Ace work." My baseline reading speed used to be around 230 WPM. "This is the first review I've ever written for a browser extension. Think of how much time you'd save every day! The average person reads at 200 words per minute using SwiftRead, you can easily train yourself to read at double the speed, 400 words per minute, or faster. SwiftRead helps you eliminate your inner voice that sounds each word out-known as "subvocalization"-and too much focus on the words themselves, so that you can read more visually, which means faster reading while maintaining comprehension. SwiftRead works by utilizing a visual technique called Rapid Serial Visual Presentation, or RSVP, used by the fastest speed readers in the world. The PRO version of SwiftRead comes with native support for speed reading PDFs, ePUBs, even Kindle books on Kindle Cloud Reader, as well as many other features to help you read faster and learn more. Or, select your text in the browser, right-click, and click "SwiftRead selected text". You can use SwiftRead to speed read whatever text you can copy-paste into SwiftRead. SwiftRead works on news articles, blog posts, and emails. Use SwiftRead, the highest rated and most popular speed reading extension of its kind, to speed read through text in your browser! Read two or three times faster, with SwiftRead.
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