This looks like fun, I think I’ll try it!
 
Joe

From: NYTtoday
March 26, 2009
Personal Best
It’s Time to Make a Coffee Run
 
By GINA KOLATA
 

WELDON JOHNSON first tried caffeine as a performance enhancer in 1998. He was not a coffee drinker but had heard that caffeine could make him run faster. So he went to a convenience store before a race and drank a cup of coffee.
For [...]

Biomechanical comparison of the double-push technique and the conventional skate skiing technique in cross-country sprint skiing.
Stöggl T, Müller E, Lindinger S.
Department of Sport Science and Kinesiology, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria. thomas.stoeggl@sbg.ac.at
The aims of the study were to: (1) adapt the “double-push” technique from inline skating to cross-country skiing; (2) compare this new skiing technique [...]

I love dissecting technique as much as anyone, and have in the past, addressed this weight transfer/rotation/body position question in skating with great interest.
I believe that the limitations of language and especially the written word often create controversies where there are, in reality, very small and probably irrelevant differences of opinion.
I am very much in aggreement with [...]