110th Anniversary of the Origin of Japanese Skiing Show off single cane skiing! (Itoigawa City, Niigata Prefecture)

2021.2.22

Single cane skiJoetsu CityItoigawa Seaside Valley Ski ResortItoigawa City

Classic style is very popular!

To commemorate the 110th anniversary of the birth of Japanese skiing, the Joetsu City Lerhi Association performed a single cane ski at the Itoigawa Seaside Valley Ski Resort in Itoigawa City.

It was a member of the Lerch Association in Joetsu City who showed off the single cane ski.

Skiing was introduced 110 years ago by the Austro-Hungarian military officer, Theodor von Lerch, in Joetsu, Japan. At that time, Lerch told me that instead of using two stocks as they are today, skiing with a single cane. At the Lerch Association, the skiing technology of the time, “single cane skiing,” is being passed on to the present.

The Itoigawa Seaside Valley Ski Resort in Itoigawa City has invited the “Lerhi no Kai” for the first time since this year marks the 110th anniversary of the birth of Japanese skiing.

Onishi, chairman of the Lerch Association, said, “I think it was done well today. I’m grateful for the invitation because I haven’t had a chance to show it. Next year, at the Lerch Festival (in Kanayayama, Joetsu City) If you come to the show, “he said.

After this, Yuru-chara Lerch joined the members and handed out can badges to commemorate the 110th anniversary of the birth of Japanese skiing.

At the meeting, on the 13th of next month, we will show off one-cane skiing at the Cupid Valley ski resort, and we plan to continue at Nozawa Onsen and Hakuba ski resort.