If this will be your last weekend of skiing/riding at Bromley, please remember to grab your gear.  If you are going to ski/ride on Easter Weekend, the Club will be open and you can grab gear then.  It will be very important for folks to grab all of their gear since we will be doing a deep clean and some storage/cubby renovations this spring/summer.  Thank you for your help…  Over the years, we have accumulated lots of extra stuff and it is time to purge so we can create as much room as possible.

10:00 Club Championship Race – 1 Run

Registration at the start of East Meadow

Fun costumes are  encouraged!!!

10:30 Rail Jam – Base of lower East Meadow

Registration for Rail Jam is in the base lodge from 9-10

11:30 Dedication of the Clayton-Tuttle Crow’s-nest finish building

12:00 BBQ – Please RSVP us if you are planning on coming!

3:00 Race & Rail Jam awards in front of BOC clubhouse

4:15 Annual Meeting – 3rd floor of the base lodge

7:00 Dessert Potluck – Wild Boar Tavern.

Please bring a dessert that you would like to share with everyone!

Well, despite our best efforts, spring has definitely sprung here in Vermont.  That doesn’t mean there isn’t plenty of skiing left, it just means we don’t need 4 layers of clothing and hot chocolate to enjoy it.  Saturday is forecast to hit 60 degrees!  Dare we start thinking about skiing in shorts?

This weekend we’ll spend our last full weekend tuning up for the club championship on March 28.  Let’s show those older kids a thing or two.  As I found out personally last weekend, age does not trump beauty when it comes to racing.

See you on Saturday!

Coach John

Did we ever own the mountain last weekend!  It was a wild crew of J6 skiers that ate up the mush on Saturday and Sunday.  We even skied Little Dipper twice as evidenced by the attached photos.  We also watched our heroine Lyndsay make slalom look easy as she foreran the J1/2 race over the weekend.  You can see the wheels turning in the J6 heads as they see what is possible.

We introduced a couple new drills this weekend that helped get the skiers forward, on edge and moving their feet quickly through turns.  These brush drills were fun and fast for the kids, and I watched with immense satisfaction as body and ski position improved with every run.

OK, after a week of non-stop sun (almost unheard of in VT!) we’re all pretty spoiled.  It looks like we are in for a wet weekend, so be prepared.  Right now they’re calling for showers on Saturday and rain on Sunday.  The snow will be soft, but make sure the kids have some way to stay dry.  We’ll try to work around it, but we’re the J6s, so we have to set the example for all the other BOC skiers and will probably end up outdoors most of the time.

Finally, get ready for Mountain Dew this weekend.  Details about the race are on the Bromley Mountain site.  Suffice it to say that caffeine and sugar can be found in abundance this Saturday!

See you on the mountain,

Coach John

Peter Cook and Eliza Denious....2010 winners of the Yolanda Ambrosecchio Memorial Pabst Race...CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Please Click the link below to view photos from the race this past Sunday, Feb. 28, 2010…..

http://picasaweb.google.com/DWMooney/PabstRace2010_02_28?locked=true&feat=email#

After last week’s 37 inches of mountain snow, any weather we get this week is going to be a piece of cake.  It seems we are all set for the rest of the season with the entire mountain available for training and skiing.

Last weekend’s big news was our fantastic Pabst race.  The J6ers were out in force as 9 girls and 12 boys raced a challenging East Meadow giant slalom.  Annsley Martin was our top finisher with a 6^th place finish followed closely by Katie Baronowski (7^th) . A strong showing from Sophia Bastek placed her 3^rd among our group and 10^th overall.  All the girls skied well and completed both runs.

Robert Donnellan was our top boy finisher with a tie for 9^th place.   His younger brother Tyler skied his best yet this year and finished just .59 back in 13^th place.  Watch out Robert, here he comes!  John Morgantini, Blake Roberts, and Bo Nordberg  rounded out the top 15 for BOC.  Good job boys!

A very special thanks to everyone who helped out with the race, and especially to those hardy individuals who helped dig out the snow fences and reset them!

Lyndsay, Lily and I are planning our own J6 championship race in the next couple of weekends and will update you as soon as we finalize the date.

See you on the mountain,

Coach John

PABST J5-JISP, DEVO, and KAP 2-28

PABST J6 2-28

I trust everyone is recovering from last week’s ski marathon.  What a great week!  Not only did we get some fresh snow early in the week, but we got a little blast on the weekend as well.  This coming weekend look for Bromley to be pretty buried from today’s storm with perhaps more snow tomorrow and Friday.   For all you J6ers, I guess the coaches won’t have any excuses not for not skiing the Plunge and Spring Fling.  Get ready to go steep and deep!

We ended the weekend on a high note with timed courses on Lord’s Prayer and School Slope.  The kids were having so much fun being timed, they didn’t want to quit.  Lyndsay, Lily and I had to start taking the course down to make them stop at 2:30.  Great skiing by everyone as we completed good course training for our February 28 Pabst race on Sunday.

Look for some fun on Saturday as we’ll run gates and ski that new snow.

See you on the mountain,

Coach John

Last weekend also featured a lot of work on pole plants and body position. The athletes are applying their newly honed skills on the mountain on a regular basis. Just ask them to show you pole plants, the ready position, or what “free skiing” means to Lyndsay, Lily and me.

Inspired by Lindsay Vonn’s gold in the DH, we’ll be spending much of our time through the weekend refining our racing skills as we look toward our next race on February 28, the Pabst race at Bromley.

See you on the mountain,

Coach John

Next week is the February vacation week and Lyndsay, Lily and I will be around all week.  I hope as many of you as possible will join us for what will undoubtedly be a fun week and our best opportunity to prepare for the next Pabst race at the end of the month.

Now, if you folks from NJ, NY and CT could bring some of that snowy weather up north with you……

Coach John

Robert Donnellan led our boys with a 10^th place.  His second run was 2 seconds faster than the first, better than anyone else in the J6 boys!  Ben Schinto, Micky Wehrle, Jonathan Marvin, Blake Roberts and David Ginsburg also skied well in their first race of the season.

Coach Lyndsay shot video during the race and we should have a chance to look at it this weekend.

Lyndsay, Lily and I are very proud of this group.  They’ve been working hard, having fun, and tearing up the mountain all winter.  Can’t wait for our next race at the end of February.  A special thanks to all the parents who helped out on Sunday and cheered the athletes on.  See you this weekend!

Coach John

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

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