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Helpful websites

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:14:10 Z

http://www.fibt.com
The FIBT is the international governing body of bobsleigh? and skeleton. Their website has multimedia clips, results, athlete bios, histories of the sports, and more.

http://www.sliderguide.com
SliderGuide is the wiki you are currently reading!

http://www.skeletonsport.com
Created by Peter Van Wees, skeletonsport is a community site that has results, blogs, profiles, and more.

http://www.sledbox.com
Sled Box? is an free online marketplace where you can buy and sell sliding gear.

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Skeleton schools

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 05:46:41 Z

FIBT Skeleton School

The FIBT skeleton school usually takes place at the conclusion of the season, (late March, early April) and has been held in lake placid for the past two years. The school is a week long beginner/intermediate program with several coaches available and watching on the track. In 2008, the school featured daily programs including curve theory, track walks, video reviews, and weight room sessions. The school is available to athletes not ranked in the top 20 in the world.

Igls Skeleton School
November 2008

Lake Placid FIBT School.
March 2008

Joose Magazine

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:23:37 Z

Joose magazine is a monthly general interest skeleton magazine created by 81 Industries?. The magazine launches September 2009.

Writers

Features

The magazine will feature daily updates to the site in the form of quick news, race results, and wiki entries a well asontjly features that include interviews, video shorts, funny articles, polls, and more.

Goals and mission statement

the goal of Joose is to create new media outlts for the sliding sports. Its mission statement “your press release sucks” is meant not as an insult but as a challenge for current media contributors to adopt new methodolgies for promoting skeleton in a rapidly changing and ever more technologically inclined world.

Slider Guide

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:38:33 Z

Sliderguide is both the name of an online guide for skeleton athletes as well as a media company for sliding sports.

History

SliderGuide was created in the summer of 2006 as a social networking site for members of the sliding community. The site was launched in January 2007, and became known for satirical press releases and humorous news articles relating to skeleton. SliderGuide then reformed into a media company for skeleton and began offering numerous services.

Current offerings

The site maintains an archive of 25 news articles and hundreds of race results. Current membership stands at 117, although sign up was disabled following the decision to change strategy. Today the site consists of The SliderGuide, a guidebook/wiki related to all things sliding, as well as Sledbox, a marketplace for buying and selling sliding gear.

The Future

In April 2008, SliderGuide announced the development of Joose Magazine, an online magazine about skeleton. The site will launch in September 2008 as a monthly publication and will feature general interest articles as well as the humorous articles the original site was known for.

SliderGuide also announced the creation of a public forum to coincide with the launch of Joose.

The Company

SliderGuide is registered as a Limited Liability Corporation in the State of New Jersey.

Restuarants

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:46:13 Z

By location

Lake Placid

Lisa G’s
Wiseguys
Charley’s

Helmets

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:17:24 Z

Uvex Skeleton Helmet

Uvex skeleton helmets which are manufactured in Germany. The cost of these helmets range from 400 – 500 USD, depending on the cost of raw materials at the time (mainly the coat of carbon fiber). To inquire about this helmet, it is best to contact uvex directly. Manufacturing time varies, and can take up to three months.

Czech Helmet

Czech slider Hubert Lichman has developed a helmet similar in style to the Uvex helmet. Fully certified and built by the same manifacturers of Czech hockey helmets, these helmets run slighlty cheaper than the Uvex style.

Z1 Paragliding Helmets

http://www.unfeathered.com
Price – $295.00

The Italian Z1 paragliding helmet gained popularity after the 2002 winter games, thanks in part to its light weight and flip-up visor. The helmet is the least expensive as compared to the Uvex and Czech style helmets. The safety of the helmet he been called into question recently, leading the FIBT to issue a statement regarding helmet legality and safety in the sport.

Safety and Legality

As it currently stands, nations are permitted to make their own desicions as to whether or not a certain model of helmet can or cannot be worn. The Z1 is currently legal in the USA (other countries needed. Please add). Despite recent incidents, many athletes continue to safely use this helmet.

Resources

Official FIBT helmet rules:

Lake Placid

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:07:42 Z

Lake Placid is one of two combined Bobsleigh/skeleton/luge tracks located in the united states. The 1500 meter track is located in the Verizon Sports Complex at Mt. Van Hoevenberg.

The Track

The track has 20 curves, 19 of which are timed for skeleton (curve 20 is used only for bobsled).

The Old Track

Places to Stay

Places to Eat

Helpful Information

Lake placid old track is also located in the Verizon sports complex, and was used for passenger rides until the 2008 season when it was closed, assumedly permanently.

Lake Placid is home to the 2009 Bobsled and Skeleton World Championships.

category: Travel

Home Page

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:04:21 Z

SliderGuide needs your help

Conribute to the best resource for skeleton in the world by adding or editing a page on the SliderGuide. You can do a lot of stuff by signing up and logging on to the site. etc.

Getting Started

Skeleton schools
Faq's
Helpful websites
Books?
Howto's
Tip sheet for beginners?
Wiki Rules?

Tracks

Altenberg?
Calgary?
Cortina?
Igls?
Konigssee?
La Plagne?
Lake Placid
Lillehammer?
Moscow?
Nagano?
Oberhof?
Park City
Sigulda?
Sochi?
Torino?
Winterberg?
Vancouver?

Equipment

The Sport

Rules?
History?
People of note?
Terminology?
Useful links?
Helpful websites
FIBT

Travel

Hotels?
Restuarants
Transportation?
Places of note?
Warnings?
Air Travel?

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SliderGuide mobile

We’re excited about the upcoming launch of SliderGuide mobile. Your internet-enabled phone will give you access to all our sites. Read more about it on our development blog.

Howto's

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:03:14 Z

How to sand runners?
How to build a sled box?
How to transport runners?
How to pad a sled?

Sleds

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:00:55 Z

Here is our comprehensive list of sled builders located throughout the world. Each link will take you to our page about them, including contact information and pictures.

ATTENTION Builders: Please only include yourself on this list if you build sleds publicily available for sale. Thank you.

Davenport Sleds?
Hass Sleds?
Bob White Sleds?
Walser Sleds?
Parker Sleds?

Speed suits

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:43:44 Z

Speedo

Speedo’s popular Fast Skin? swimwear is often used by skeleton athletes. The suit, originally designed to reduce drag in water, is available from many websites as well as Speedo’s online store. The suits cost approximately $400 USD each.

Young Originals

Young Originals make good training suits, and they are flexible with color combinations and styling. The suits are available for less than $100 USD and may be purchased online at http://www.youngoriginals.com/

Karbon

Section needed.

Adidas

Section needed

FIBT

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:38:31 Z

The Fédération Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing (FIBT) or International Bobsleigh and Tobogganing Federation is the main international federation for all bobsleigh? and skeleton sports. Founded in 1923 in Paris, France, it has members of 14 national bobsleigh and skeleton associations as of 2007 and is based in Milan, Italy.

Early history

The world’s first bobsleigh club was founded in St. Moritz?, Switzerland in 1897. By 1914, competitions were taking place on natural ice courses. This growth led to the creation of the FIBT in 1923 with inclusion into the International Olympic Committee? (IOC) the following year. At the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, the four-man event took place. In 1930, the first FIBT World Championships took place with the four-man event in Caux-sur-Montreux, Switzerland with the first two-man event taking place in Oberhof?, Germany the following year. At the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, the two-man competition debutted. In 1935, the Internationaler Schlittensportsverband (ISSV – International Sled Sport Federation in (German)), a forerunner to the Federation Internationale de Luge de Course (FIL – International Luge Federation in (French)), was absorbed into the FIBT and a Section de Luge was created. The luge section would be abolished when the FIL was split off in 1957.

1950s changes and beyond

Because of the growing weight issue at the 1952 Winter Olympics, the first changes occurred when weight limits were introduced. Since then, configurations to the tracks and the bobsleigh itself would be regulated for both competition and safety reasons. Also, bobsleigh was not included in the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, California for cost reasons in track construction. The development of artificially refrigerated tracks in the late 1960s and early 1970s would greatly enhance speeds. World Cup competitions were first developed in the 1980s while women’s competitions took place in the early 1990s. The 2-woman bobsleigh event had their first World Championships in Winterberg, Germany in 2000 and debutted at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

History – skeleton

Early history

Skeleton was also founded in Switzerland in 1884 as part of the Cresta Run. It remained a Swiss competition until 1906 when the first competitions outside Switzerland took place competitions took place in Austria. At the 1926 FIBT World Congress in Paris, France, it was approved that skeleton was an official Winter Olympic sport with competition taking place at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz. 13 competitors from five nations took part. Twenty years later, skeleton reappeared on the Olympic program when the 1948 Winter Olympics returned to St. Moritz.

Fall into obscurity

At the 1954 IOC meeting in Athens, Greece, skeleton was replaced by luge on the official Olympic program. This caused skeleton to fall into obscurity until the development of a “bobsleigh skeleton” which could be used on any bobsleigh track in 1970. The development of artificial tracks would also help the rebirth of skeleton as a sport.

Rebirth and inclusion back into the Winter Olympics

By 1986, the FIBT started funding skeleton and introduced training schools worldwide to grow the sport. The following year, skeleton European Championships were introduced. In 1989, skeleton World Championships were introduced with the women’s championships not being formed until 2000 at Igls, Austria. The previous year, skeleton was reintroduced in the Winter Olympic program when the IOC allowed competition for the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City.

FIBT competitions

The FIBT governs competitions on all bobsleigh and skeleton competitions at the European Championships?, World Championships?, World Cup?, and Winter Olympic? level.
[edit]Presidents

FIBT have had four presidents in its existence.
Count Renaud de la Frégeoliére of France (1886-1981), served 1923-60
Almicare Rotta of Italy (1911-81), served 1960-80
Klaus Kotter of West Germany (later Germany) (1934-?), served 1980-94
Robert H. Storey of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, served since 1994.
[edit]Championships

http://www.fibt.com

Faq's

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:26:18 Z

This section of the wiki is for new sliders to post questions about the sport, which will be answered by a member of our community. Questions may be submitted anonymously.

skeleton

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 04:38:46 Z

This is the skel page. I hope this works with linking.

Travel

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:53:30 Z

Traveling in skeleton is a real pain in the ass, especially when you have a sled that weighs 90 lbs and a french canadian bitch at the Northwest terminal counter in Calgary.

category: Travel