In case you wish to compete in skeleton, welcome to our team. Please, take into account following criteria:

Courage
Even though it seams that other feature should be stated first, it is not like that. We know lot of strong, quick and extraordinary people, who does not have courage enough to lay on skeleton head first and come down thru narrow icy slide in speed over 100 km/h. However, we believe that just you will have sufficient courage to try this sport. What more you will need?

Speed
Start represents very important factor of skeleton sliding. During the start the athlete gathers the speed, which increases during the run only. That is why athletes having some sprint experience are the most suitable candidates.

Age
Person over 16 years of age may be engaged in the skeleton sliding under the FITB rules. For younger competitors the arisen overloading may damage their organism. If you wish to achieve top results, you should start early. However, even people over 30 years are not without chance. Canadian Duff Gibson started with skeleton in 1999 being 33 years old and after five years he stood at the top of victory rostrum, winning the World Championship in 2004.

Other Premises
Among other premises belong as follows: temporal independence, will... just the same like for any other sport. Respecting the fact that skeleton is run abroad, advantageous are two features:

1. Fluency in foreign languages. English, German and French are official languages of the FIBT. Many people speak Russian, as well. If you are fluent in, this is a big advantage.
2. Financial support. Nowadays skeleton does not have adequate financial resources. Even though we are making efforts to acquire financial resources for competitions and trainings, we should appreciate, if the applicant does not relay we should acquire everything for him.

What’s more?
If you wish to join use within this sport, contact us! We will give you the appropriate information how to join us giving your advice concerning the first steps at skeleton rides.  Believe, it is worthy the effort!