title: Skiing research in Japan.
abstract: Skiing and skiing techniques were introduced by the Austrians to Japanese soldiers in 1911. After that, skiing spread beyond the original purpose and recently produced the ski sciences. From a sports biomechanical aspect, the development of the study of ski jumping, alpine skiing, and the basic movement in skiing is introduced in this paper. One of the characteristic points of these studies in Japan was that the ski sciences were supported not only by biomechanists and physiologists, but also basically by physicists and engineers. The fundamental research and studies from divergent fields are supporting each other and being integrated into ski science.
mesh_terms: D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D004576:Electromyography; D005528:Foot; D007564:Japan; D009132:Muscles / Q000502:physiology; D012106:Research; D012865:Skiing