satsn.
/sats/, U.S. /sæts/ Skiing.
The action made by a skier in preparation for a jump, in which the skier crouches down then straightens up and swings forward while applying downward pressure, so as to ensure upward and forward movement into the jump.
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1904 D. M. M. C. Somerville et al. Ski-running 56 When within about a yard of the edge of the take-off make the ‘sats’... The ‘sats’ is a downward pressure of the ski on the snow made by rising on the toes, and nearly straightening the knee and thigh joints, the arms at the same time being thrown upwards.
1929 Daily Express 16 Jan. 8/3 He crouches low, in the position known as the ‘sats’..knees almost touching the skis in front and arms hanging low at the sides.
1943 Monatshefte f. Deutschen Unterricht 35 119 In the field of ski jumping, in particular, no satisfactory English equivalent exists for the Norwegian hoppe, meaning ‘powerful jump off’, the knekk-style in jumping, or for the sats which gives the jumper a sure position for alighting.
1960 D. Bradley et al. Expert Skiing ix. 164 The old-style take off, derived unmodified from small-hill jumping is a powerful ‘sats’ at the lip of the take-off.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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