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Did you ever wonder what winter sport uses agility,balance, and is in the Olympic games?Thats right,ski jumping.Ski jumping is a sport that is legendary since 1924.It has its own way in doing.The way this sport makes it, itself,is because you go of a larg ramp and try to get the right angle to do what you call a Four Hill ski jump.What is a ramp you say?A ramp is a hill type,where it arches in the middle and has a stiff structure.But most athletes practice in the Eastern USA park.This is a great place to practice because it makes the hills higher to go up.In Eastern USA park it has a much direct ramp.A direct ramp means that once the athletes go off the ramp they get a good hight, to make them better at ski jumping.Some athletes just already have the speed in them to make it off the ramp.But the only way they maintain every body piece in place, is their armor.All skis aren't the same.Ski jumping needs special skis for ski jumping hills.Jumpers need to be a certain body mass to jump.The defenition of mass is,a body of matter, usually of indefinite shape and often of considerable size.The reson why ski jumpers have to have a certain body mass is because if there over they can't do the proficient way of doing a trick.These ski jumpers also have to have skiing goggles,knee pads,shoulder pads,and the most important a ski suit.The ski suit is to keep the body warmth in the athlete.Well,now that you know you that ski jumping has agility,balance,and is in the Olympic games,what makes it even better is that athletes from all over the world are coming to compete in this magnifisent sport.