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Ski Jumping – Talent Battle in a Learning Organization

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Ferjan M., Mežnar M., Jereb E.
Organizacija
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2013
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vol. 46
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issue 4
119-129
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The concepts of learning organization and organizational learning have made a significant contribution to the development of some major global companies such as Nokia, Oracle, Microsoft and others. This article explores whether the learning organization concept has proved successful in sports, specifically in ski jumping. The study was conducted among ski jumpers who compete in the World Cup. The questionnaire was distributed to 130 ski jumpers, and 54 correctly completed questionnaires were returned. The study has indicated that ski jumping is a sport of distinct individualists. Individual talent is an extremely important factor for success in this sport. We can say with absolute certainty that all surveyed ski jumpers are able to take 16th to 50th place in a World Cup race. The differences between competitors are very minor, even in the biggest races. Therefore, when it comes to success, every single detail matters. We have identified a weak correlation between the best sporting achievement and collaboration in the testing of new equipment. In the past, some of the best results were achieved on the basis of experimentation, but contemporary coaches do not dare to over-experiment with the technique. Too frequent progress measurements place a burden on competitors. There is a positive correlation between the frequency of individual analysis and the success of a competitor, while the best achievement and variables from “team work” group are negatively correlated. The relationships within a team are obviously very complex.
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Lost in Translation: Heidegger and Ski Jumping in Slovenia

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Kreft L.
Physical Culture and Sport. Studies and Research
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2010
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vol. 49
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issue 1
13-20
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Heidegger developed his non-concept Gelassenheit after World War II. Its meaning remains uncertain and controversial, something different from notions of everyday conversation. In Slovene, however, it has been translated as sproščenost, which is parallel to English ‘relaxedness’, thus producing hybridity between notions of relaxedness, relaxation and releasement, which is, together with letting-go, a proper English translation of Gelassenheit.This hybridity was (ab)used for political slogans during the 2004 elections, when Heidegger's term was repeated on and on, until it entered popular discourse as well as other domains such as the economy, culture, and media. This phenomenon was examined by Boris Vezjak in The Relaxed Ideology of Slovenes (The Peace Institute, Ljubljana 2007). Relaxedness-releasement entered sport jargon as well, but Vezjak's book did not cover this field. At first abundant, this term more or less disappeared later. With one exception: in ski jumping, where it became one of the main words used to explain what was missing from Slovenian ski jumping during 2004-2009 period. In Slovenia, ski jumping is a national sport, and the absence of excellence during this long period created additional pressures on athletes and the whole ski jumping commonwealth.To examine the numerous cases where releasement was used to explain what is wrong with ski jumpers, or what they finally achieved in rare examples of success during that period, the only Slovene sport daily, "Ekipa" (The Team), was consulted for research. This study revealed that releasement was indeed lost in translation, appearing in ads as a signifier without any certain signified, and functioning as a je-ne-sais-quoi of sport performance and excellence. Through cases of repeated use of releasement as mystical and at the same time scientific (instead of relaxation) and colloquial notion (which is relaxedness, even carelessness), we get at inoculation of kinesiological mechanicism and psychological technique with philosophical mysticism.
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Skoki narciarskie na terenie Beskidów

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Filipowska R., Szuszkiewicz M., Chmielewski M.
Rozprawy Naukowe Akademii Wychowania Fizycznego we Wrocławiu
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2016
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vol. 54
39-54
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The article presents the historical overview of the Polish ski jumping hills. The analysis particularly concerned the role of the objects from the Beskid Mountains area of Bielsko-Biała and Cieszyn, including the hills in Bystra and Szczyrk-Skalite, which now significantly represent the importance of the Beskid Mountains as a ski jumping centre in Poland. The paper presents the quality of ski jumping facilities in Bystra, too. It reminds a long way that was passed by local activists to rebuild the skiing tradition in the village, and also shows the every-day sport reality. There is still a dilemma between trying to have another, third hill and cooperating with the neighbours. The last part of the article contains an analysis of the dynamic properties of the ski jumping hills in Bystra and Szczyrk. This information may be useful for trainers of young sportsmen.
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