The German ski jumpers are located almost three weeks before the start of the Nordic World Ski Championship in the form of form. Pius Paschke can no longer build on the performance of the start of the season. According to Martin Schmitt, the veteran urgently needs a break.
“Unfortunately, the system has collapsed with him. Full gas is no longer working at Pius,” Martin Schmitt analyzed Pius Paschke’s drop in performance at “Eurosport”.
The five -time winner even missed the second round in Willingen last Sunday in Willingen. Paschke also passed 32nd in the Polish Zakopane in mid -January.
The 34-year-old has “basically a more susceptible jump that is absolutely at the limit,” explained Schmitt. “If all factors fit together, the great works. But if there is too much aggressiveness in its jump, nothing works directly.
At the beginning of the season, this “still worked great and he mastered this border area, but something happened that it has become unclean. He no longer has any access, you realized that,” the 47-year-old stated.
Ski jumping: Paschke takes a World Cup break
The SkiSpring World Cup will be guest in the USA this weekend. However, Paschke is missing in Lake Placid and will instead train at home – according to Schmitt, the right decision.
“It is high time for Pius that he takes a break from the World Cup and can now concentrate on the basics again in order to rebuild his jump again. He is physically in top shape, but such a season is extremely mentally. At some point you are overloaded and not as capable of acting.
From February 26, the Nordic Ski World Cup in Trondheim’s Norwegian trondheim is still a real season highlight. “I hope and also believe that we see a completely different Pius Paschke in Trondheim at the World Cup,” Schmitt keeps our fingers crossed for the fourth place of the overall World Cup.