page_title: Ski
section_title: Asymmetrical skis
hierarchical_section_title: Ski / History / Asymmetrical skis
caption_attribution_description: Norsk bokmål: Illustrasjon hentet fra boken "Vorstellung der sämtlichen Königl. Dänischen Armee" av Bertram, Carl og utgitt av Carl Bertram (dk, 1763)
context_page_description: A ski is a narrow strip of semi-rigid material worn underfoot to glide over snow. Substantially longer than wide and characteristically employed in pairs, skis are attached to ski boots with ski bindings, with either a free, lockable, or partially secured heel. For climbing slopes, ski skins can be attached at the base of the ski.
  Originally intended as an aid to travel over snow, they are now mainly used recreationally in the sport of skiing.
context_section_description: This type of ski was used at least in northern Finland and Sweden until the 1930s. On one leg, the skier wore a long straight non-arching ski for sliding, and on the other a shorter ski for kicking. The bottom of the short ski was either plain or covered with animal skin to aid this use, while the long ski supporting the weight of the skier was treated with animal fat in similar manner to modern ski waxing. Early record of this type of skis survives in works of Olaus Magnus. He associates them to Sami people and gives Sami names of savek and golos for the plain and skinned short ski.
  Finnish names for these are lyly and kalhu for long and short ski.
caption: Asymmetrical skis used by the Danish-Norwegian army in the 18th Century, long ski for the right leg, also shown in profile (far left).[14]
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