When should I double pole kick during a ski race?

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Simi Hamilton · Answer

I always find double pole. Kick is a really good gear for two applications. One either kind of gradual terrain, when maybe it's a little too steep to just double pole, but striding is maybe two to slow the gear for the grade and the other application is when you kind of want to test how well your skis are kicking going in. Into the bottom of a climb often times when you double pull straight into a striding gear. Sometimes, you might slip on that first stride. If the Snows little slick, if the conditions are a little slick if your wax isn't perfect. So by double pull kicking, you can actually kind of test out the kick a little bit because you're still mostly relying on your core and your arms. But Also, introducing your, your leg with a kick. So, those two places, I always find really helpful to double pull kick. I hope that helps

Sophie Hamilton · Answer

When should I do for kick during a race? Great question. And as I was mostly a Sprint racer on the World Cup and I have to admit that, I rarely used double pull kick Sprinter. So short that I think I tried to transition between techniques as as little as possible because each transition takes some time. And so as a result I was mostly double polling and striding and in Classics Prints, but now has retired athlete. I find myself using dope. We'll kick a lot more. My upper body isn't quite as strong and so I can't double pull everything. I used to double pole and I find up old kick to be a great technique, gradual ups and just a great transitional technique between double colon striding. And I think it's also used quite a bit in distance racing. I think it's a great technique for when you're starting to get bogged down double coin but it's still a little too flat to stride.

Matt Whitcomb · Answer

Isabel awesome question and kind of a question that has an answer that's changing year by year. The kicked off a pole is one of the techniques that is sort of being threatened with Extinction. More Racers are going from striding to double pole in there. They're just sort of skipping that gear of kick double pole. And I would recommend with training more often than not, when you would be kicked up appalling that you start double pulling to make it a little bit more of A comfortable gear for you, make double pulling your strength because I think double pulling is going to be a little more useful for you for then kicked over point. However kicked all the polling can be something that's like reserved for perhaps gradual terrain something that's like one to three percent terrain into a headwind sometime when you're just like looking to to recover a little bit but overall it's one of the Lesser used gears in racing and Iran, the World Cup right now. Cheers.

Jessie Diggins · Answer

I like to double kick. Um, anytime there's a big transition. So, coming into a big hill when it's not, I can't quite double pull that. I'm not really ready to stride. I threw in a couple double pole, kicks also over the top of it. He'll to really kind of help me out if I'm not quite ready to start double pulling yet. So basically just any of those transitions to keep that speed up and kind of ease yourself in and out of the double polling.

Julia Kern · Answer

When striding is a little bit too gradual or too easy and window pulls too hard, I actually did double kick in my race. Today, we had a 10K, classic World Cup race. And it was a very gradual flat uphill where I just felt like I didn't quite have the strength to pull pull and striding felt a little bit like, over-striding, I implemented. The double kick and it's just important to really throw your hands up and get the most out of both your arms and legs and double kick, because that is the huge Advantage. So I like to shoot my foot. Word before I go and do a really big kick with my leg.

JC Schoonmaker · Answer

When should you double hook kick during a ski race? So usually double pull kit comes in on piece of terrain. That's not very fast. So wouldn't be super flat. It's more of a very gradual uphill. It could also be on a flat when you're just not moving super fast. So you've just come across the top of an uphill and then you don't have a whole lot of speed into that flat section and it works well there because you're relying a little bit less on your arms and you can use your whole body to to pick up a little bit more speed on a piece of train where you otherwise would be moving a little bit slower but I also think you can use it just about any time during a race when you would double pull just to give your arms a little bit of a break and kind of switch gears and that can really help you carry some speed and give you a few different things. You can work with throughout the race rather than just relying on your arms and your legs the entire time.

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"When should I double pole kick during a ski race?"