Latest Training Session

Hi Everyone,


We have had a very productive training session over the past couple of days. Within this email you will find the training notes for Thursday nights indoor session as well as the Friday's on snow training day.
We hope to have more participation throughout the rest of the season. The more participation we have, the more opportunity's there are to grow as a group and as a team. This is a process in which we can become leaders in our school.

Thursday Night:
In attendance: Megan H., Kevin J., Schanzy, Cindy L., Jeb S., Jax R., Tom P

(Housekeeping)
- Ski Co has offered us 5 training days covered by workers comp. These days will be roistered and one person in the group will be the designated leader. We have now used up 2 of our allotted days.
- We have scheduled a Bill Seguin night for Friday, Jan. 29, 5-8pm at Highlands. He is a business consultant that our ski school has worked with in developing presentation skills. In the past we have worked on the "Athletic presenter." For these sessions we are gearing it towards developing an assessment tool to help us assess each other in our presentations; as well as addressing our on hill presence and our fear issues.
-In the future we would like to have an evening of conversations with Mike Porter, Dee, Katie and Victor. All of whom have been selectors for the tryouts. To have conversation about what they are looking for in candidates.
- If you have an idea, thought or an event you would like to do..... MAKE IT HAPPEN. Create the group yourself, or ask for help.

(Fundamentals)
- Rotary and Pressure were identified as having the most variance in beliefs. Last session we worked on Rotary, this session we are going to work on Pressure specifically ' Foot to Foot'. We are going to work specifically on a skill not a specific task.
- Megan suggested we work on leg length variance.

We discussed the ideal ski performance in the pressure realm and discovered there are two camps of skiers:
1. Skiers that intentionally create bend
2. Skiers that wait for outside forces to bend the ski

Future Dates
January 29: Bill Seguin: please email Schanzy at jschanzy@hotmail.com to reserve your space. This session is specifically for this group only. Please bring $20.00 for your space.

February 6, 4:30pm, Highlands locker room
February 7, 9:00am, Highlands

February 22, 4:30pm, Highlands locker room
February 23, 9:00am, Highlands

April 5, 4:30pm, Highlands locker room
April 6, 9:00am, Highlands


Friday Ski Day
In attendance: Schanzy, Cindy, Cesar, Jax, Kevin

Terrain: Stayed on groomed terrain, Heather Bedlam, Apple Strudel, Golden Horn

We began with stork turns exploring foot to foot pressure. We kept the inside ski tip on the snow.
Belief: We need to stay balanced over the outside ski

If any body part moves in(inclines), then the ability to steer the ski is taken away. We need to maintain the length of the outside leg to be able to continue rotation throughout the turn.

A common affect we found was the skier would square up. We then slightly changed the drill to an internal javelin turn. The muscular feeling you would have in a javelin turn without the actual twisting of the inside ski.
Can you maintain counter and enter the new turn smoothly?

By the end of the morning, the group was much more stacked over the outside ski. Using our lower leg, pelvis and shoulder.

We need to stay observation based and keep coaching out of it. Listen to the feedback and then go figure it out. This supports the philosophy of real and ideal.

Cheers,
Cindy