Matteo Franzoso left on September 15, the day before he turned 26. On Sunday 14 he had had a serious accident during a training with the Alpine Ski national team in Peru. THEThe Fisi press release describes the dynamic as follows: «Matteo has badly faced the first, a small jump of the training track, ending up thrown forward towards the nets. He passed two rows of nets and slammed against the fence positioned 6-7 meters off the track ».
Paolo De Chiesa’s complaint
The former ski national team Paolo De Chiesa, today a technical voice of the Alpine skiing of Raisport, bitterly writes on Instagram “Matteo, it’s not your fault”. He does not want to hear about fatality and a voice makes an appeal for security: «A year ago he died during a training the young Matilde Lorenzi, now Matteo Franzoso. He crashed into the wooden stake of a fence. In the World Cup this would never have happened: why can it happen during a training? The world of ski must take three steps back or of this step together with our boys will also die skiing “.
Helmets and security culture things to improve
“We must start from the assumption that the speed is always dangerous, because you are at the mercy of forces, kinetic strength and inertia, in the face of which in the event of a fall it becomes a puppet: the more speed increases, the more the danger increases and it is true that current skis are more performing in speed in the curve”, He reflects Pierangelo Molinaro, for over three decades following the alpine skiing for the Gazzetta dello Sport“I see it hard that we can go back because it would be economically losing, it is perhaps more realistic to think more, for example that the factual safety has been very increased in the world cup, while the problem is greater in training tracks. And then There is one thing that we do not speak enough, and it is the fact that, with the speed of the current level current level, the weak link of the ski are the helmets, many accidents have shown that, at high level, where there are slopes such as Wengen in which the 200 per hour, the front and lateral protection of the helmets today in use, is not enough. They are good for us tourists, That we impact at 30-40 per hour, but probably no longer are enough for the world cup levels ».
From the next season in the cup the jacket with Airbag under the suit and the anti -lines suit will be mandatory: “It is positive, but the culture of safety in the environment should grow, because often the athletes rebel against the impositions for fear of being annoyed or slowed but it is a matter of saving their lives”.
On a tourist level, skis are more “easy”, but induce to too much confidence
Also On a tourist level, the decision to force the helmet on the slopes also took adults, while so far it was requested only up to 14 years, although many choose to bring it equally. Even slopes and plants have been made compared to the safer and more protected past.
While carving skiing have apparently made it easier to learn to ski, to have fun with friends, which, however, does not automatically mean greater safety indeedthe risk is that the illusion of succeeding in gods a feeling of confidence superior to one’s real skills: “You may not risk life there, but you risk their knees and legs: the current skis than the long and rigid ones of thirty years ago, which forced a long apprenticeship, are much more reactive and if they turn when the cover is not ready by arranging the center of gravity. Skiing today would require greater preparation, athletics but also properceptive, because current skis delude you ease, but if you cannot command it it is the ski that commands you, it takes you to a speed that puts you out of the game. For this reason it is even more important to be forward with your arms carrying the center of gravity to be faster in the action. Then the speed also depends on the laws of the inclined plane, but let’s not delude ourselves that someone resigns to market more difficult skis to drive, that no one would buy, the road is to grow the culture of everyone’s security “.
Because on a tourist level, in which speed is not an end, prudence is the first rule to protect itself and others.
