American Reacts to Norwegian Children Skiing
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As an American I don't know much about skiing in Norway. Today I am very interested in learning about skiing from very young Norwegians. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
I am Swedish and I sarted skiing when I was 2 or 3 years old and my siblings too. Both in norway and Sweden it is common to sart skiing in a young age.
nah the sweds are the less talented people in the world we are next to japan in talents while sweds are next to the north pole as talents the only thing they good at are sliding on their belly like penguins xD
Hvor har du når Oddvar Brå brakk staven? Hææ!
@@tst6735 nowhere... water maybe :)
We learned without ski-poles. Just for training the balance! Suppose you did the same?
@@jankleven7674 Yes I started using ski-poles after a cupel of years.
Swede here and started skiing (cross-country skiing) when I was about 3 yrs old. Due to my parents circumstances I did not start downhill skiing until I was 13 yrs old (well, stood on my dads ski when I was 3-4 yrs old downhill when he was younger and still in physical condition) but I am glad I did, so much fun! I am sad that me and my hubby did not go on with it but we do not have any good slopes around where we live and it is quite expensive, especially with a bunch of kids. Had been a blast to go downhill skiing with our kids! You know, kids are so much more flexible in their bodies and more fearless than adults = easy learners. It is much harder to learn physical stuff when you get older.
You got it right with carving controlling the speed. If you go straight down, downhill skiing race, it is harder to control and in the slopes you are resposible to not smashing into the skiiers beneath you in the slope, so you have to be really good at skiing to avoid that. Strong legs, balance and a happy mind...you get a lot of benefiths from skiing...and exercise and it is NOT to late to start for you!
Does anyone remember the Minijet skis that we grew up with in the 70's?
I just wish we had the same gear these kids have today...
Spoiled brats 😅
Yeah, I had some of those back when I was a kid😊 Where I'm from we called them Mini skis. Proper dangerous and fun🙂 I remember I hurt my bottom so much one time I was skiing on those miniskis that I couldn't sit for almost 2 weeks...😅 but it was fun tho😊
Used those too, albeit it was called "miniski" as @nss-vj1uf said and was typically at kindergarten or first grades of school,
I don't think my butt has ever been that sore other than trying snowboarding for the first time.
But, I was somewhat lucky to be born right before Twin-tip skis kicked off, which are my favourite type.
Spoiled? So it’s the kid’s fault that they have access to to different and newer equipment as opposed to what you had growing up in ancient times?!
You have access to all this information on the internet that your ancestors didn't have? Spoiled brat
Yep i had a couple pairs of mini skis (Norwegian)
Remember that many norwegian starts with cross-country skiing when they are 2-3 years. First time my kids tried downhill skiing they was 5 years old. I started with snowboarding when I was 7 years old.
In Norway it`s not unusual for kids to start skiing at 2-3 yars old.
It is quite common, actually, as it's both a fun and educational kindergarten activity.
Even as a norwegian it has always seemed crazy to me when people push their 2 year old off the top of a hill on slalom skis :P Glhf I guess
So if you don't know what present to give your Norwegian friend's newborn baby, anything skiing related would go down well.😀
Just normal in Norway 😅 Had my first skies at 2 years old.
This is Hafjell, where some skiing where held during the olympics in '94. You see the guy with a torch in the background hill cut out in the forest, in the jumping-clips. It was done for the olympics and is still maintained.
Jessica Diggings (Jessie) is one of the most popular crosscountry skier in Norway, and one of the best. She is from the US. You should do a program on here. She is also drop dead gourguess, and always smiling.
The plow: You dont want to turn the skis in. You kick the heels out, or the back off the skies, as the kids said. Big differance.
Nordic kindergartens provide children real freedom of movement, learning how their body can move and developing great body motor skills early, add the creativity and development of their minds that playing outside gives children, Norwegians parents ease that their children might get a bit hurt, but will learn from it and a love for the outdoors and you get a country dominating in winter sports.
No bard word for Søta bror, they rule the ice hockey rinks and have some bad ass skiers!
5:05 the buff is realy common yes.
If you go to a winter resort, I think you will find many off these kids. I started when I was 7 on skis made of wood, with rat trap binding, and leather boot. The first time a had fiberglass skis in was 9, and i still skiing down the sloops at 62.
it's never too late to learn to ski 🙂
No, but it hurts more the older you are :D
Roughly the same population of Colorado who has had 1 winter Olympic gold medalist and Norway has more then every other country on the planet. Also have the greatest chess player ever, the world's best soccer player and multiple winners of the world's strongest man competition. Our two greatest Presidents Washington and Jefferson were of Norwegian descent... Not bad from a tiny little country.
I don't know why, but I really enjoy these videos on Norway 😂
These are above average. But I do remember when I was about 10-11 years old we skied on slalom skies (if that is what they are called in English) trough really heavy forests. And it was steep!! And at the end of our "homemade" slope we bulit jumps...I think we landed at about 25 meters. How no one was seriously hurt...I have no clue. :) I'm 52 now, by the way. And we didn't have helmets and stuff. There was a few stiches needed sometimes. But otherwise...nothing serious.
Not above average. It depends on region though. But if you live in the south, sure you would think so. But even a tad up north of Oslo, everyone can go in black slopes from age 6.
@@Atlas_Redux I live little over an hour north east of Oslo. I used to be relatively ok when it came to speed. Not "speed"...you know what I mean. :D But not trick skiing. But when we wasn't scraping bark off the roots of trees locally we used to go to Trysil. Black slopes are ok, I just never learned to do 360's and things like that. :)
@@Atlas_Redux Completely untrue.
@@Atlas_Redux I'd say from my experience here in Oslo, at least one of them were above average, most school classes will have a handful of kids that are "willing" or capable to try to learn and do tricks, use rails(box rails included) or go off track into the forests, from my experience it has mainly been the boys doing it.
I definitely don't agree that all kids do black slopes, at least not with the school class trips we did that included other schools, I'd say the majority of the kids didn't.
Albeit, definitely more are willing to do black slopes than doing tricks or going to the forest.
Yes, the wood slopes was close to suicide...but we survived 😊
I do love that they used kids to promote skiing, and those was fantastic!
For Americans that not even know what a map is.. I can revele.. its even a north on USA maps!
To your surprise.. USA is one of the best winter sport nations in the world, becuse of its mountains, its cold climat in the north and US kids grows up and get used to skiing/skating/any winter activity!
Its rather this.. under wich stone have you lived your whole life, to not know that USA is one of the best winter sport nations????
One of my favourite experiences as a Norwegian who has been skiing since kindergarten was when I followed my uncle who is insanely good at skiing off trails, we got as much speed as possible and went up a small hill on the side of the skiing slope that led to large drops and a bunch og places you could jump and do tricks (keep in mind that my uncle had been there before and if you don't know what your doing it could end with injuries if your not careful
1:50 "my brain can´t even comprehend it" (HE REALISES HIS LIMITS!) Give him one point!
As a Norwegian who hadn't skied since I was maybe 10 or 12 I was strapped with a pair of skies at 27, It went just fine :)
Love it ❤ and it's never to late to learn how to ski 😁
When I started skiing, I was like half a year old. I had to use a harness connected to my mom until the age of 5, due to me never wanting to stop😭
This is films from Visit Norway, an advertaisment bureau that is payed for adds like this to make foreigners come visit Norway and try some of the cool stuff we do here, beside enjoy the landscape and nature.
Wherever there is snow and there are slopes, kids ski. Across Canada, Scandinavia, Bavaria, and the Alpine areas of Europe; in Hokkaido, and even South Island New Zealand, kids ski as soon as they can walk. In areas of the US, too. Kai Jones, who started skiing at aged three, became one of the world's best junior wild skiers at aged 10. He's from Wyoming. You need to get out more!
If you are skiing in minus 10-35 celcius then yes you will cover your entire face both with a buff and preferably some wool too. Or you will get some frost damage.
This is Norwegians at the best 👌🏻
Cheer from Norway 🇳🇴 This is what life is all about. The outdoors !
Given that your speed downhill can be 60-70 miles per hour, making those turns to slow down is a must! ;) AND it's fun!
I was where they were on sunday riding my downhill bike. Hafjell is one of the best places in Europe to ride downhill bikes and it was the season opener last weekend.
Also it is said that norwegians are born with skis on their feet.
This is like reading book about how to swim or ride a bike. You really just have to do it instead. Baby steps.
You could've just clicked the "next video" button instead of leaving full screen, clicking on the video and go to full sceen again.
Most can and know how as we are taught from we are very little, tho the majority isn’t necessarily good at it. There’s a difference between a pro (olympics) and those just doing it during easter and winter break for cultural and traditional reasons. In my family growing up during the 90’s and 2000’s we only did cross country skiing which is the traditional way. And it’s usually a division between those who do cross country vs down hill as the latter has been seen as more cool and less lame like cross country. All the cool kids did down hill or snow board. I remember I nagged myself to get a snow board, but it was different compared to skiis so I never learned how to. My brother had twin tip. Tbh I hate skiing in general, and stopped when I was old enough to refuse as prior we were forced to… winter activities in general isn’t my thing. Not even ice skating, tho I love the cold weather.
Iam norwegian and a lot of kids are really good
My little brother and I entered a downhill ski contest, asked our father (sure) and our mother was clueless. Not only did we enter but little brother won, setting a new speed record at age seven. I think it was something like 70 or 80 km/h downhill. i didn't win but i was among the top.
Du vet det er mye fjell i usa også så jeg vedder på at det er mange steder med like mye snø hos deg.
I started skiing when i was at least 2 years old
Notice how the kids are 6 years old and how well their english was.
You better take a trip now😁😅 Sun is up from 04am to 1130pm here in Drammen. Not much to see here if u look for something exciting.🙈 But u know what to look for yourself. U know alot now😅
In the slopes there are ALWAYS the MINI MINI kids skiing my s$$ of!!!
These kids has the trick short skis and to ski like that that's a must. I don't have those cuz I just not ski enough to put in the money. I rent and mostly go for short skis. Makes it easy.
You can be sure that in almost all Scandinavian countries (Denmark might be an exception) and in many Alpine countries (Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, South-Germany, North-Italy, East-France, parts of Slowenia, South-Poland, parts of Slovakia, and some more) kids learn how to ski from an early age on. Some schools even offer ski camps for their pupils/students. Nothing overly special here. Also, parents are not afraid to let their children go for skiing lessons. Completely normal.
They start theory in the cradle.
We Norwegians say we are born with ski’s on our feet. At least here in Trøndelag
Colorado and the Grand Tetons, amazing places for skiing, and you have some amazing places in general in the US. Just saying… also for the great outdoors.
Remember, Norway is still on the number 1 spot, of the all time winning nations on Winther Olympics, with a total of 148 golds. Ahead of the USA with 114 gold. On summer olympics Norway is an all time nr. 21, with 61 gold. - Combined mr 9. with 209 golds and a total of 568 medals/ Not shappy, for a nation of 5.5 million people. - Combined the 9th most winning nation. ❄☃
And plenty of them was won from cheating….
@@NaeniaNightingale sure...get a life 😊
This is common in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland.
We danes are happy to be the laughing point of every nowegiean ski joke. Kids ARE soooo goood
You can go straight downhill, we call that störtlopp, but for typical skiing it's not very useful as you quickly pick excess speed and control becomes difficult. especially in a crowded slope!
thaha, dude, this is the whole of Europe if you got mountains. I'm Swiss but I'm not from the alp regions so I'm not nearly as good as these kids. But for them alps folks pretty much everywhere in Europe it's common to ski or snowboard like... as soon as they walk. Like, literally. 😄
Oh - and Do Not take a board for learning!!! Skis 100% makes for a fun first experience
Tradision in my family at least is that you had to learn the plow to earn your first poles
Also, this could have been Danish Swedish.German.French. Italian. Austrian and Swiss kids too. They're all very good at it. Its all down to what parents you've got. I know a few teens from Denmark that made money from being snowboard instructors at Val d’Isere each year. They skied too just like myself back in the 70s and 80s.
as a parent u teach ure kids what to do ¨
if u dont have snow to ski so on but im sure u havce other things u can teach ure kids.
and as english is known all over the world ofc u teach ure kids to learn english..as all english speaking ppl shouuld learn there kids to talk other languagies aswell
it's funny to see the military try skiing for the first time xD
Of course the Norwegian kids are amazing. They're the best kids in the world skiing
Guess you could invite a few norwegians or a norwegian ski club over to Colorado in the top season and watch them humiliate the "Know it all" americans showing of in the slopes. To be honest you have some realy great alpine skiers in the US. Winning the world cup and olympics.
Kids gone wild. An other doc about scandinavian kids:)
Well, it's known that we the norwegian are born with ski on the feets.
All kids in norway lern to go on ski when they are like 2 or 1yrs old
avrage norwegians right here. just kidding, maybe a bit over the avrage, but its not unusal tho.
I'm more impressed by the english XD
check out death diving.....its norwegan
But dude. Tyler :) Dude... you gotta do something about that camera of yours. You're so entertaining to watch, but your edges aren't as sharp as they could be :D
You know why kids can skii so well....cause norweigans are born with skiis on their feet. Or at least most of us are....I was probably born with skiis on my feet, but I have no balance whatsoever so I decided to renounce my skiis. Also: No, norweigans can be uptight about what activities the kids get to do. If you wanna climb a tree in a schoolyard, forget it. It's literally illegal to let kids climb trees. It'r perfectly fine to let kids strap sticks to the feet and fly downhill faster than a snowmobile, but it they try to climb a tree you need to arrest them. There are basically 2 outdoor activities that kids are allowed to do: Skiing and fotball.
I am from Norge
norwegians are not born with skis on their legs, that would be very very disturbing to experience. It may be normal for some to start skiing at a young age. The schools used to go on ski-trips or a day in the alpine facilities near here when I was a teen in the early 90s, but it's not like that now. They don't go on these trips anymore, it's probably 25 years since I had skis on my legs, and my two kids have never tried it. They prefer scooters in the skatepark. Snow is nice and all that to looka at, and I live where there is a bit snow, but not a ton, like in the south-west, but I would not mind living in a place where the temperature never went below 75f
Personally I strongly dislike to have to deal with snow, and I wouldn't dream of using it recreationally :D hahaha.
they are not making it look easy, it is easy. ( i am norwegian )
let ure kids go out there and learn things dont treat them like sugar... ufall down ..u get up again nio matter where u live u let ure kids learn what is needed to do..'
dont treat em like sugarbits
I'm Second!!! :D
Years ago.. and I mean years ago. Was a "tourist slope" Mainly danish people back then. I was ,, 5-10 years old.. and we were laughinh hard the the them. But is it hard to learn a skill when grown up. I know that now . back thet we just enjoyed the danes looking like idiots. remember this is 40 + years ago.
And with the Pride flag in the Norway logo. Fitting timing XD
There are many types of skiing. You should get more information about the subject. Ski is a Norwegian invention. Pronounced lik the word "she"
The worlds oldest ski was found in sweden, not norway
Yay im first
Trust me, not all kids are so good at this. I am 55 and still take my ski off and slide og my buttom down the hill 😅😅😅😅
Dude, Tyler, WHY do you have five channels under different names? Rumple, Bucket, Burger, Walker, Ryan and Tyler, etc, and no links between them on any of them!?!
Even the reactions with your brother are under a different name!?! Explain please! And US here, where TF are you from because that accent you use is like no American accent I've ever heard before. You got some 'splaining to Do.
You are cute, I'd watch you recite a phone book, so why all the deceptions on having different videos on each channel?
they say scandinavians are the most skillful people in the world with talents next to asia but not sweden they are the less talented in the world xD
eehhh well now youngsters is skiing and skating all over in the north sweden..norway and finland!! and denmark..i mean its not weird at all..what are ure kids doing where u live?? its so weird that ppl out in the world think this is rae!! wtf are eveyone doing?
Um, the mountains in Colorado are taller than in Norway. Other states, e.g., Utah, have snowy mountains, too. Btw, most Norwegians win for cross country skiing. Alpine skiing is spread out among several nations (incl. the U.S. - which additionally does well in snowboarding).
No, Norway rules in ALL skiing competitions.
Colorado is nothing compared to Les Porte de Soleil in Europe. But, yes your mountains are higher than Norwegian mountains. Big deal😂 We can't claim any honor for our nature. We are only responsible for what we are doing with it. I would not travel to Colorado though. The water there is full of man made contaminations like PFAS. In Utah the water is high on nitrate, chlorine and lead. I guess most of USA are poluted with lead btw. It really messes with your brain.
Simpleton.
What do you expect kids in Norway to do? Ski & skate
What do you expect kids in Cali or Florida to do? Swim & surf
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- To be fair, just like in Norway, people in the USA do also ski and/or skate...
People in Norway do also swim and/or surf just like people in the USA do..
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Uhmm.. there are actually tons of ski resorts in Cali... ;) But you´ll obviously get better at what´s right there in your backyard, so yeah.
Tyler knows only how to shuck corn.
Get out of the basement, dude. Touch grass, get laid, partake of the Devil's Lettuce, just get a frickin' life, man. Living like this isn't good for you.
Well, if Tyler hasn’t seen it, it must not exist.
This is known as Tyler “logic.”
Tyler is your average willfully ignorant American with zero social awareness of his surroundings. Norwegian kids are taught how to ski maybe as soon as they can walk.Also they are taught English as a second language in kindergarten so they are bilingual by they 7/8 . However Tyler doesn't realise that if it doesn't exist in the world of Tyler it doesn't exist.
No, it's called learning. Why are you so against someone learning?
After you have built up your daily dose of Tyler-rage, how do you use that rage to contribute to society?
There must be so much energy and potential in that enormous level of rage.
@@Atlas_Redux I'm not against learning as I am a teacher with over 25 years experience. What I am against is wilfully ignorance and zero social awareness of their surroundings.Also the general assumption that Americans have that they are correct all the time.The average American should engage their brain before opening mouth. The social awareness aspect they never leave their bubble and are unaware of nothing outside of it. They are sold a dream and they are ignorant enough to believe it
@@Atlas_ReduxHe just a nett troll. He is just a bully.
What a Panderer! If Norwegian kids do something risky, Tyler applauds. If American kids do something risky, Tyler criticizes.
Well, he should, since they never do.
@@Atlas_Redux Well, I´ve seen 4 year old American kids fire automatic weapons...