J6 Parents and Athletes,
Every day on the mountain has us improving our skiing and racing abilities. Last weekend we spent a lot of time in the gates with both brush and J5 GS gates to practice our turns. We’ve been taking advantage of the warmer skiing weather to mix in a fair amount of time on the upper mountain. Skiing bumps and steeps forces the kids to apply the techniques we work on at some point nearly every single day. If you ski by us, you’ll hear me and the rest of the J6 coaching staff harping on hands, body position and edges.
Saturday and Sunday we teamed up with the J5s for some fun gate training on School Slope. One side benefit – we’re all learning to ride the T-Bar with only the occasional skier falling off! We’ve put in plenty of time preparing for this Sunday’s Pabst Race on East Meadow. I know we are all looking forward to it. Should be lots of fun!
Monday’s blow out rain storm made a lot of snow disappear, but there’s still plenty left to race on. It’s supposed to be cold later this week, so we’ll have a hard surface by Sunday. Make sure those skis are tuned up and ready to go!
Good skiing and see you this weekend!
Coach John