A study on laterality in skiing

This study was conducted to reveal the characteristics of la terality in skiing. The questionnaire survey of 32 items of daily movements， 27 exercise movements except for skiing movements and 16 skiing movements was analyzed. The subject's skiing technique was in the third class of the badge test by S.A.J. and the following results were obtained. 1. Twenty-three factors were extracted by principal component analysis with normal varimax rotation from 75 items. The first factor which is that the outside foot of turning in skiing has 10 items was related to skiing movements. Exactly， it shows that regardless of the .uphill and downhill christie of the snow plow， the parallel and the jump christie， all subjects have a fixed dominant on the outside foot of turning. 2. The laterality in skiing does not exist in the same factor of the crossing foot， the take off foot， the step forward foot and the dominant trunk turning factors. Therefore， it seems that the laterality in skiing does not relate to the daily movements and exercise movements except for skiing movements. 3. It seems that the traverse is similar to the sideslipping， because both techniques have the same facto