Information about Slalom

For other uses, see the disambiguation page Zig zag

A zigzag is a pattern made up of many small corners at an acute angle, tracing a path between two parallel lines; it can be described as both jagged and fairly regular.
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Slalom is an alpine skiing discipline, involving skiing between poles (gates) spaced much closer together than in Giant Slalom, Super-G or Downhill, thereby causing quicker and shorter turns.
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Whitewater Slalom is a competitive sport where the aim is to navigate a decked canoe or kayak through a course of gates on river rapids in the fastest time possible.
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Freestyle slalom skating is a highly technical field of skating that involves performing tricks around a straight line of equally spaced cones.

Equipment

Most freestyle slalomers use inline skates although some use quad skates.
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Ice skating is traveling on ice with skates, narrow (and sometimes parabolic) blade-like devices moulded into special boots (or, more primitively, without the boots, tied to regular footwear). People usually skate on frozen rivers and lakes and at skating rinks.
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Windsurfing is a surface water sport using a windsurf board, also commonly called a sailboard, usually two to five meters long and powered by a single sail. The rig is connected to the board by a free-rotating flexible joint called the Universal Joint (U-Joint).
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A snowboard is a board ridden in snowboarding to descend a snow-covered slope. It is often thought as a winter form of a surfboard or skateboard, except that the rider's feet are bound to the board with bindings.
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Giant slalom is an alpine skiing discipline. It involves skiing between sets of poles ("gates") spaced at a greater distance to each other than in slalom but not as great as in super G. The number of gates in this event ranges from 56 to 70 for men and from 46 to 58 for women.
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A kneeboard is a surfboard ridden in a kneeling stance. Kneeboards are ridden in ocean surf, or while being towed behind a boat on a lake or river.

Kneeboard surfers generally wear swim fins and catch the wave by paddling and kicking.
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Slalom is a skiing video game made by Rare Ltd. for the NES. It was released first in the United States in August, 1987; a European release followed on October 15, 1987.
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^JPN July 15, 1983
^USA October 18, 1985
^CAN February 1986
^EUR September 1, 1986^[1]
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Rare

Private
Founded 1982
Headquarters Twycross, Leicestershire, United Kingdom

Key people Gregg Mayles
Mark Betteridge
Industry Computer and video game industry
Products Video games
Owner Microsoft
Website [1]


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Slalom Consulting

LLC
Founded 1993
Headquarters Seattle, Washington
Offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Portland, San Francisco

Products Business Management, Technology and Financial Consulting
Website www.slalom.
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