About
Skiing isn't a road run.
Cross-country skiers train on loops, over changing snow, in a dozen techniques. Most apps they carry treat skiing as a road run. Skibuddy starts from the ski trail instead.
Why Skibuddy exists
Ski the same 5 km loop every Tuesday for a winter and you should be able to watch yourself get faster. A running tracker makes that hard: it splits at a different spot on the loop every lap, ignores the snow changing under you and files a morning of double poling as a slow jog.
Skibuddy measures the sport the way skiers ski it. It times laps at the gate, finds the climbs, reads technique from motion and keeps the snow on every session, so a skier and a coach can put this Tuesday next to the last one and see what changed.
Principles
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Measure the sport the way skiers ski it
Loops, climbs and techniques are the units of cross-country training. Skibuddy starts from them, not from kilometers.
02
Context before comparison
Skibuddy shows every time with its snow and its technique, and compares two numbers only when their context matches.
03
Gloves stay on
Skibuddy speaks everything a skier needs mid-session out loud or shows it on the Lock Screen.
04
Show the workings
Skibuddy publishes every threshold on the methodology page and links every market claim to its source.
05
The skier decides who sees what
You set each session to private, shared with coaches and clubmates, or public.
Where Skibuddy goes next
Skibuddy reads the track, the skier, the snow and the skis today. Next, technique recognition learns from the sessions skiers label, so today's published rules give way to recognition trained on real skiing. The goal stays the same: a season of skiing you can read.
Get in touch
Coaches, club organizers, trail managers, wax techs and skiers with a loop they want measured: write to hello@xcskibuddy.com. Messages reach Hannes, who builds Skibuddy, directly.