Wow, what a weekend we had! Great skiing all three days and even some fresh powder to take advantage of on Monday.
Saturday and Sunday we spent a lot of time working on our racing skills with courses on School Slope, Lord’s Prayer and Ridge. We’re trying to learn when to start our turns in the course and we used brushes above the gates to help the kids get the idea to start the turn sooner, rather than wait until they are at the gate. We’re definitely making progress. Coach Lindsey added a flush above our stubby course on Saturday to get everyone to turn more quickly and pretty soon the entire J6 team was making better turns throughout the course.
Sunday, we joined the J5’s on Lord’s Prayer for a turny course that made all skiers complete their turns. No cheating here! We followed up in the afternoon with a fairly steep course on Ridge that I was pleased to see how well everyone was handling.
Monday morning’s fresh powder had us off on a new mission: skiing every glade on the mountain! Avalanche Glade, Plunge, Everglade – even White Monkey. After everyone’s hard work over the weekend, a day of fun skiing was just what the coach ordered.
We have the Pabst Race coming up on Sunday, Jan. 31. If you can, please try to get your racer’s skis tuned up. If you are unsure of what to do, see me this weekend and I can point you in the right direction.
See you Saturday!
Coach John