This is a menu of videos from around the web to give you an idea of biathlon and how it works.
IBU Live Elite Competition Streaming Watch live and recorded IBU World Cup, IBU Cup and Junior competitions here. Stay up late or get up early for all the European meetings as they happen. Failing that, watch the recording with a cup of coffee and a powerball before training. https://www.eurovisionsports.tv/ibu/
Biathlon World Website Everything you need to know to see how your favourite athlete(s) are getting on. News, views and news reviews can be seen here, with every race result for every athlete recorded. https://www.biathlonworld.com
IBU Videos
Shooting – Dorro makes it look easy
Let’s start by lulling you into a totally false sense of security, as 2019/2020 IBU World Cup Champion, Dorothea Weirer, makes an incredibly difficult discipline look easy-as. She does this regularly, btw…
What an IBU World Championship meeting looks like
This gives an idea of the various formats of races, from relays to sprints/individuals (staggered starts against the clock), Mass starts and the Pursuit.
World Parabiathlon Championship taster
Here’s a short video reflecting the 2018 season. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBhTLbw5BME
Sit-Skiing Technique Resources
Candace Cable introduces sit roller-skiing
Short video on preparations and arm technique. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpbiSrSlsiU
Transferring from chair to sit-ski frame
Basic but important starter lesson for sit skiers – should you not be used to it. https://vimeo.com/376658005
How to sit ski
Here’s Candace again with another short but useful video on sit-skiing, both on rollers and on snow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQKnhMhv0rA
Stand-Skiing Technique Resources
Skate Skiing on Snow – Part 1
REALLY important points on getting it right from the start. Also relates closely to roller-skis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WVLk5suruI
Introduction to ‘Skikes’
VESPA will introduce stand-skiers to the sport using these ‘off-road’ (don’t do it!) rollers, that are one-size-fits-all https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlSfLfjJEME
Roller Skiing Intro
Another short but very useful brief on beginning on rollers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o17PPVjr6Rw
Skate Skiing Techniques
Excellent video on skate techniques. Video is on snow but relates the same to roller-skiing. Warning: DON’T try to snowplough/wedge downhill on rollerskis! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh5DunRoV84</p> <!– /wp:paragraph –>
V1-Offset Technique
Learn this technique well and you can pretty much go anywhere. The video doesn’t start brilliantly, for a beginner, but bear with it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahA5BQ4EQxE
V1 Technique
Different timing to the offset, for faster speeds on flatter parts of the track (For the difference between V1/V2, think how many times you use your poles for each V your skis make). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GpZeAakBx0
V2 Technique
Good accelleration technique but not easy to learn. I broke it down into three stages of legs, arms and body, then brought them all together. Don’t be confused by her description of timing in V1; in European V1 (correct), the poles are not planted in time with the skis, that is V1-offset. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RRZMS4Qcvc
Freeskate Technique Excellent video on freeskating technique, used for the fastest speeds, where poling is superfluous (or just to give arms a break). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brGZlZkCwyk.
Double-pole Technique Top-notch video with a bio-mechanical explantation of a surprisingly more complex technique than it first appears. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgWC53_kstA
Shooting Technique Videos
Biathlon Shooting Technique Annelies Cook takes us through shooting an Anschuts Biathlon Rifle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGx03PheuUw
Biathlon Shooting Tips More from our friends, the Septics, with useful coaching on shooting techniques from the Dreisegacker clan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2WYU_phDp8
Visually Impaired (VI) Biathlon Yes, that does include shooting; see how these super-trusting athletes use ski guides, laser and sound technology to navigate the course and get rounds downrange with the best of them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_fNpUeO7kg
…and on a lighter note;
Top Gear does Biathlon
Watch Jeremy and the lads get to grips with the sport in an unconventional manner… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GByq2unEoLI
Ikea does Biathlon
Watch traditional Scandinavian foes and Biathlon colossi clash, as the Norwegians take on the Swedes in their own ‘backyard…‘ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH-zVXN8OMg
…and Tiril Ekhoff does biathlon…(just about)
The delightful and dynamic Norwegian speedster undergoes a test of concentration, as she shoots on rollers while being distracted by electric shocks, a death metal band, coping with a python and watching an exotic…. I’ll leave it there… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3IC3dw1Vls
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