Abstract
In the winter Alpine events, those who are handicapped with both legs such as spinal paraplegics, cervical paralysis, both legs paralysis, the legs mutilated, etc cannot wear skiing board slide with a chair ski. It is operated with outriggers instead of using ski sticks, which a skiing player has in hand then. While turning, especially the work of outriggers is important. It was investigated into how well trained athletes (32 chair ski players) in the Japan Paralympics in 2003 felt the work with the outriggers. As a result, those players overwhelmingly cared about the angle and weight of the outriggers and all of them agreed the importance of the outriggers. However, in spite of their having been interested in the performance of the outriggers, there were many players who did not understand the importance of the angle and weight of the outriggers. A difference of the recognition of the usage of the outriggers depended on degrees of disability. Only, moderate and severe physically disable players significantly recognized the importance of the weight of the out-riggers. In addition, we found that all players focused on balance of mobility and stability within the body by using the outriggers as they turned. The outriggers were intentionally used for maintaining the balance of the body. Therefore, this study shows that the necessity of using the outriggers is very important as the players turn.
