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This ski works quite differently from any other type of ski. So be patient to try to figure it out because it is really quite ingenious. First of all the ski doesn’t have wheels that contact the ground. The Bottom ski is a plastic ski looking part set on the ground. Then you glide across the bottom ski with the slider carriage. At the end of the glide you shift your weight to the other ski and the ski shoots forward. Repeating the cycle on the other ski. Because you are not gliding on the ground but on the bottom ski, you always have a perfectly smooth surface you are gliding on. This is what makes it work so well on all surfaces.

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On a cold windy night in the middle of January, I was lying down in bed thinking about classical technique and reading Silent Sport. I was wondering why I was such a terrible classical skier but a decent skate skier. I had this thought because I got my butt kicked in the Skeivick classic. Coaches and skiers said that classical technique was the foundation for skating, stating that skiers in Europe ski 60-70% classical technique and the remainder they skate. I had received several technique tips to try with the main one being you must have a complete weight transfer and that the kick is from the heel which is now debatable. I was also told that rollers skis can wreck your kick because they allow you to push back with the toe and that you are better off doubling poling on roller skis and worry about striding once there is snow on the ground. Well, I followed all this advice and still did not stride well. After thinking about this stuff for a while I though if only there was a roller ski that would teach you how to push down while striding. So, I thought of all kinds of roller skis designs that might teach me how to do this. However, I never came up with any. I then fell a sleep and woke up around 4:00am in the morning with an idea. I then rushed to the bed stand and looked at the cover of Silent Sport which had a classical skier striding on snow. Yes, I said to my self this new roller ski design that I came up with in my sleep might just work. I then drew up a crude design and fell back a sleep. I then built a crude roller ski that work like no other it was not a ski and it was not a roller ski. It was the crude idea of the now call CAT ski or should we say Kitty CAT ski because it was still a baby in its design phase. After refining and testing it for several weeks my classical skiing improved immensely in just days. I thought the best test was the Badger State games. Well, my test proved positive with a Silver medal. My wife even said there is something to these ski contraptions because how can you go from a being a dingle berry, which mean being the last in the pack, to almost winning a ski race. I even thought boy this new roller ski designed worked great. I had no coaching except by the CAT skis and it change me in three weeks into a decent classical skier. Well, after many years of using them I am finally starting figuring why the CAT ski helped my classical ski technique so much.

The CAT ski like everything else take time to learn. However, it is not as dangerous roller skiing or snow skiing. All you need is some time and patients 1-10 hours usually is all and the willingness to want to learn how ski better. When people first Start to CAT ski they tend to ram the front of the ski while striding and they tend to complain that there is not enough glide distance. Well, I tell them they have more than enough glide. I think this fix glide distance is just one of the advantages of the CAT ski because if you are hitting the front you are over striding and over striding is one of the major technique flaws of both novice and expert skiers. Years ago the focus of skiing was a huge push and a beautiful glide. This is also known as over striding or over gliding. Roller skiing will let you over stride but the CAT ski will not let you do this. Instead the CAT ski give instance feed back if you are or are not striding correctly. They tell you this when you ram the front. All you have to do to correct this annoying problem is pick up your tempo because the increase tempo decreases the glide distance and eliminate the over striding. This is why the CAT skis can be a very humbling experience even for the best classical skiers. Skier that think they are great but usually they are not because they are not willing to learn how to improve their technique and admit they have a technique flaw. The new styles of classical technique are not that much different then the older style other than the focus is on the push/kick phase not the glide phase. The kick phase is cause of the glide phase not the other way around. Thus, if you what to ski easily and efficiently you must focus on the kick and just let the glide happen. This changes the focus of skiing to tempo verse the glide. We will know look at how to CAT ski and how it will help your. All these drill apply to snow skiing as well as the CAT skis. So, you can extend the coverage of how to CAT ski to how to Classical ski