Nordic skiing is a highly damanding endurance sport; successful perfromance requires exceptional skill and cognitive awareness of physiological and biomechanical aspects as well as a knowledge of physical science properties. By itself, Nordic skiing is a year-round discipline; as a cross training activity, it contributes to cardio-pulmanary performance as well as bodily physical strength integraty (issues and remedies for negative transfer of motor behavior patterns between running and skiing will be addressed in a future article).
The Kinematic Running Assessment Method uses Dartfish software;
"Dartfish has once again been chosen by NBC Olympics to provide technical and analytical enhancements at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games" (Dartfish News, 2008).