Gear Swap

Chase Hood's old Slalom Skis. Very nice condition, needs some wax. 135 Rossignol Slalom skis with bindings. Not sure on price, but I'm sure they'll sell for cheap. Sorry for no picture. Contact me for more info.

Adam Brown is selling his one year old Rossignol S3's with bindings. Nice condition, very nice mid fat twin tip ski for kids.

Gear Swap

Here's some gear that members are selling. If you want or need any of this, please contact me or the person selling.

This is Amanda Flanagans old gear. Call Renee Flanagan at 801-368-5107 for details.

Opening Day

First day at the 'Dance with PJ and Blake. Surface is so hot right now. Sunshine, cold snow, and plenty of ghoombas. Only the front mountain is open. Should be a good first day of training tomorrow dodging hoodrats, gomers, and monkeys.

It worked!!!

Bring it!

It's a full moon out there fella's. That means the snow gods are most lenient and receptive to our plight. Dance your heart out, literally. It might make them smile. And when snow gods smile, they shed snow-tears of joy that slowly float down to our inhabited space; the mountains. Dance, sing, sacrifice.

Registration

Please come up to Sundance on the 21st from 9 - 12 am to apply for membership and pay the team fees. Let me know if you cannot make it then and I can arrange something else.

See you there!

SURFACE X SUNDANCE*

Our very own P.J. Baymiller has been puttin' his mugg to good use for the past few months advertising for Surface Ski Collaboration.

The Surface Next Lifes are the only true fat rocker ski for gromm rippers. Order your pair at the equipment night.

Equipment Night

Team Equipment Night:

Where: The Nyman's Ski and Board Shop

When: Tues. October 20th at 7:00 PM

Directions: 1313 E. 800 N. Going north on 800 N. towards Provo Canyon, turn left on Palisade Drive into Cascade Golf Course. It's on your left in the circle buidling that says Nymans Ski/Board Shop.

Fischer, Rossignol, Surface and maybe Atomic will be there for skis. POC and Scott will be there with protective gear. They also have Smith and Marker product for sale. The company reps and I will be there to answer any questions and to offer suggestions.

If you feel so inclined, bring some good eats and cool treats to share. These reps are busy and to come down for a small team like us is really great.

See you there!

DRYLAND *

BOOST!

Boost! from Kevin Steen on Vimeo.

DRYLAND *

Level 1 update

WME vs. Level 1 update. (It's short, and has a picture)

DRYLAND *

Slap

Cliff Trampoline - Whistler from Dan Carr on Vimeo.

DRYLAND *

WME Vs. Level 1

Most of you may be planning on attending a ski movie premiere soon to get stoked for the ski season. Most of you will probably go to Warren Miller's 'Dynasty.' Most of you would probably enjoy it and walk out of the theater with that buzzing tingling sensation that you only get when you can't go skiing, but you really really want to, or when you're waiting for the lift to open on a three foot day and you're first in line.

Before you go and spend a lot of money on a mediocre ski flick that's a year behind all other ski flicks, consider this: Warren Miller Entertainment (which has no affiliation with Warren Miller, the ski legend, because he doesn't like the direction they have taken with their films) is suing a small, independent company called Level 1 Productions Level 1 makes my favorite ski movies as of late and have done nothing wrong or illegal. Josh Berman, Level 1's director, asked if Warren Miller would contribute his voice for a small section of the movie as a surprise. Again, Warren Miller has no affiliation with WME. WME is claiming that Mr. Berman has infringed on their companies copyrights. This is a totally bogus suit and on par with suing for too hot of coffee, or for McDonald's making you fat.

I realize most of you probably don't care, but that's the gist of it. It's hard enough for these small companies to make it in the industry. They need as much support as they can get. Buy their movies, go to their premieres, and buy their merchandise. If you care. These 'indy' movies show what's happening at the top of our sport in the most creative way possible. Unlike the latest Warren Miller movies.

Sam Wins!

Sam Hill took 1st at finals, which also gave him the overall for the season. Nice! Two Americans in the top 10 too, which hasn't happened in over ten years.

Downhill Finals

Practice for the DH finals in Schladming, this race is gnarly. I predict Sam Hill to win, because he's Australian, and Australians are gnarly.

More MHGees and Tall Tees

2009 Freeskier Park Test from Dave Amirault on Vimeo.

In case you were wondering, MHG = Menacing Hand Gestures, usually directed at a camera to show how Hyphy you wish you were.

School and Skiing

Balancing school work and skiing is very difficult for you weekday kids. School cannot be taken lightly, but if you do it right, you can still ski as much as you want, and get all A's until you graduate high school.

USSA has provided a nice letter that may help some of you dealing with school authorities. It is very hard to balance school and training time for those that ski during the week. It is even harder to convince your respective schools that ski racing is a viable alternative to football or cheer leading.

If you are in need of any assistance with your athlete's school situation, take a look at this letter. It may help. I can also write a letter and explain the situation if need be.

Dryland Conditioning

WHAT: Sundance Ski Team Dryland Training

WHERE: Fort Park. 200N Geneva road in Provo

WHEN: August 31st - November 6th. Monday, Wednesday, & Friday 4:00 - 6:00 pm.

Skiing specific workouts focusing on plyometrics, strength, power, and agility.

BE THERE! (high five!)

Timpanogos Extreme Summiting

What? Timpanogos Summit Excursion

When? Tuesday, August 18th. 5:00 AM

Where? Aspen Grove Parking Lot

Why? Tradition, and we will be running for 60% of the trail, and carrying heavy rocks for 40% to get in shape for the season.




Not really, but if you wanted to, more power to ya.

Win some ish

DRYLAND CONTEST!! (!!!)

Whoever does the most sit-ups, or push-ups, their first day of dryland training will win a t-shirt or beanie. So, if you do the most of both, you will win both prizes.

The athlete to do more sit-ups or push-ups than Tyson, will win the most ballin' prize ever. It's shiny, loud, hip, and (hint) really sweet for your cranium.

BREAK!

Surface Jr. Fattie

The Next Life by Surface Ski Collaboration.
Sizes 145cm and 160cm. Tip: 133 Waist: 100 Tail: 129
Slight tip and tail rocker for shreddin' the phat der easier.
Retail: $439.

They didn't make a whole lot, so I'll try and reserve some for those that want them. The best junior ski out there.

Surface Live

Surface site is life and fresh. Sick witties.

Varsity

Do your daily pushups and sit ups!

Refresh

Level 1's new movie trailer, can you say switch up and Will Wesson? How about dub cork 12 and switch butter? BAM!


More Ski >>

Just Passing Thru

Mikael Clarke and filmer Blake Kimmel have set out to bring a fresh style to ski movies. Their site explains it all with updates every day (pictures too!) It should be cool, 'bunch' of pros and the MOST rad tricks. Stoked.

Jib[berish]

Ok, back to skiing.

Life Cycles

A new bike movie is in the process of being made right now called Life Cycles. It won't be out until December[ish], but I am way too excited for it. Ryan Gibb, the main cinematographer, married a good friend of mine and I got to ride with him the other day (not to film). But he was telling me all about the movie and gave me a little preview that is top secret. All I can say is that it's going to be amazing. Peep the action below to get a sampling of the artistry and creativeness. Stunning.

Awards Banquet

For those of you that couldn't make it to the party on Wednesday, it was a good time. We presented Hunter Flinders with the 'Most Improved Skier' award, and P.J. Baymiller with the 'Skier of the Year' award. Nice work boys! These two proved their dedication to skiing this season with all the hard work they put into their training. Hunter improved tremendously this year with 3 top ten finishes and throwing huge 360's off of even huger (as in bigger) jumps. PJ earned the skier of the year because of his ability to be a team leader and willingness to help his team at every opportunity. His knowledge and ability to teach that to his fellow teammates is a great showcase to his character. Heap 3 first places, one second place, and the overall at Brian Head, plus his mad freeskiing skills on top and shazaam! you've got yourself the Sundance Skier of the Year.

Both received a custom ceramic plate made by Tim at the Sundance Art Shack.

We want these awards to properly recognize two of our most outstanding athletes from the previous season. We also want them to become something that every athlete desires to earn the next season. We are a growing team gaining a lot of recognition from other teams, organizers, and [cool] people in general. What we do now as a team will set the standard for years to come, and we hope these awards come to embody everything that is cool about the Sundance Ski Team. Everyone of our athletes give something unique to our team, and the more that you involve yourself in it, then the more that everyone benefits. Thank you all for a great season and we look forward to next year!

Whipping Trees

Thanks to Scott Sprenger for this nice video. Someday when I can bike all-day and all-night... right.

Motivation

I found this nice little tidbit of info while researching for a paper. I found it quite relevant to sports, and especially coaching. Made me wonder what kind of interaction there is between confidence and desire. Will the desire to improve performance toss out the fear and lack of confidence, or does the level of confidence dictate the amount of improvement?

Motivation and Arousal

The concept of setting a proper task difficulty leads to the
consideration of additional factors that could potentially influence
the outcome of training: motivation and arousal. Whereas motiva-
tion and arousal have been largely (if not completely) ignored in
the field of skill learning (but see Ackerman & Cianciolo, 2000;
Ackerman, Kanfer, & Goff, 1995), these factors have been and
continue to be actively considered in social psychology, education,
and many other fields concerned with learning. For instance,
motivation is a critical component of most major theories of
learning in these fields, with motivation level being posited to
depend highly on the individual’s internal belief about his or her
ability to meet the current challenge. Vygotsky’s (1978) “zone of
proximal development” corresponds well with the skill learning
literature discussed above. According to this theory, motivation is
highest and learning is most efficient when tasks are made just
slightly more difficult than can be matched by the individual’s
current ability. Tasks that are much too difficult or much too easy
will lead to lower levels of motivation and thus substantially
reduced learning. This is not to say that no learning will ever occur
if the task is too difficult or too easy (Amitay, Irwin, & Moore,
2006; Seitz & Watanabe, 2003; Watanabe, Nanez, & Sasaki,
2001), but learning rate should be at a maximum when the task is
challenging, yet still doable.

Taken from Psychology and Aging, Exercising your brain... By C.S. Green et. al.

End of the Year Party

Hello Team,

We will be having our end of the year banquet on Tuesday May 19th. It will be at the Timpanogos Storytelling Park up Provo Canyon at 5:00. It's a little bit late this year, but it will be worth the wait, I think. This may also change depending on one thing. So get it on your calendar for now. I will send out more info in a few days.

En Route Back Home

Here's the latest from Nimbus Independent. All the usual heroes plus one of our friendly neighborhood Nymans. Blake Nyman that is. He's got some great shots in here, which is very good to see.


Go to Nimbus Independent for more videos.

JOSS Videos

For those that don't know, the Jon Olsson Super Session contest is probably the coolest contest ever. Teams from all over the world go to Sweden for two weeks to jump stuff and look cool in front of the camera. The team with the best shots and cinematography compiled and edited at the end of the trip, wins. I'm way late getting this on here, but that doesn't make it any less radical.

Team Norway 1st (Andreas Hatveit & PK Hunder)


Team Europe 2nd (Henrik Harlaut & Laurent Favre)


Team Canada (TJ Schiller & Ian Cosco) - 3rd


Team America (Simon Dumont & Tom Wallisch) - 4th Warning: Biggie Smalls is a gangsta, he also helps out Team America with their video because that's what skiers are now, gangsta, or as we like to call them Gayskers. Being a gangsta, he sings about gangsta stuff, so you may want to turn the sound down if you're not gangsta. It's my favorite one though so it's gotta go on here. American's kick butt.



Team Sweden (Jon Olsson & Jacob Webster) - 5th


Team USA #2 and Team Down Under were there too, but I can't embed their videos.

Timpanogos Slain

I don't want this to turn into Tyson's Blog, but I thought I needed to share some pictures of us skiing Timpanogos. Me and three of my friends hiked up from Aspen Grove and skied the front side of Timpanogos on Mon. the 13th. Something every skier in Utah Valley dreams of doing right? It definitely is what dreams are made of, one of the coolest things I've ever done! The skin up wasn't too bad and the snow was stable so avalanche danger was very low. It took about 4.5 hours to get to the saddle (check picture)
This kind of shows our line, I forgot to take a picture from the bottom, so this is the best I could find online. The first couple of turns were crusty, but then it got soft and really fun for a few turns before the first cliff band. After that the snow deteriorated and we skied some weird crusty-punchy-icy-but-still-very-fun-snow to this gully at the top of Dry Canyon. The gully was super fun because it was softer and there were all sorts of little things to jump off and play around on. All in all, the run down took about 45 minutes. We stopped a lot and soaked in what we were doing.

Timp Pics

My favorite pic, this is rounding the corner to Emerald Lake looking back down into Heber and Aspen Grove.




Looking back down into Emerald Lake.


Last push up into the saddle. This is the Glacier you slide down in the summer time.


Made it! On the saddle preparing to descend into awesomeness.




Oh ya, Surface love!




Taylor shredding the best snow at the top


Matt and Taylor riding the Timper


From left: Matt Harding, Pete Later, Taylor Tuttle, and some really tall goon in his pajamas

Rollerskates!

One of the most underrated skiers out there, Mr. Jordan Seldin amidst a fine switch rodeo 5





Photo (last 2): J. Eichorst

Parents Vs. Athlete Race

Hello Team,

Everyone should know by now that if it snows, I don't get anything done. And it's been snowing a lot this week.

The results from the Parents Vs. Athletes Race went something like this: Athletes owned. The end.

That's a true story.

Teams:
1st: PJ and Kanako 68:75
2nd: Adam and Dell 69:94
3rd: Kyle and Ben 71:65

Individual Athlete:
1st: PJ 31.75
2nd: Joseph 32:50
3rd: Kyle 36:00

Parents:
1st: Dell Brown 33:96
2nd: Ben Harris 35:65
3rd: Bill Freedman 35:88

Not too bad I guess parents. Good Times

BH Champs

Well, we've done it again. Sundance had another great weekend of racing and fun in the sun at Brian Head. Everyone skied amazing and we brought home a grip of medals. A fine ending to a great season of hard work. All that training has definitely paid off. Good work boys and girls!

Just a quick summary of the results since I realized how boring words are without pictures. Sorry for slacking on the peeps.

Our two solitary girls, Amanda and Samantha, had a good time and skied hard. Amanda was consistent and finished 24th both days. Samantha was doing the dishes again, BUT I thought she skied her best run of the year on Sunday. Sweet. Hopefully this is her first step to shedding her nickname.

Joseph Prososki finished 7th in Slalom with a mean run, and I mean mean man. He nailed every gate, which is awesome.

Adam Brown had a very successful race with two medals, 6th in slalom and 5th in GS. Very nice Adam my man, can't wait to see what next year will bring you.

Dillon Flinders skied hard as usual and finished 18th in Slalom with a run full of bobbles. He also had a killer GS run and finished 12th. Nice work Dil, that GS run had everything I've been looking for from you.

Hunter Flinders had an outstanding weekend with a 7th in SL, and a 10th in GS. This kid is on fire and has improved so much this year.

P.J. Baymiller took the race with a 2nd in slalom, 1st in GS (once again the fastest time of the day, check the results), and the overall fastest skier award for the weekend = one big, phat trophy. That's all that needs to be said, I think. Well, I could go on, but that would make him blush. You go girl.

Thank you athletes for your hard work and determination. I hope everyone feels pleased with their performance and improvements throughout the year. All the coaches, Sundance, and parents can't say enough about you. Take a look back and see how far you've come, and see where you want to be next year. There are opportunities to improve everywhere, so take advantage. Our team can only go up from here on out, and we'll be there for you.

Thanks doods!

Independently Nimbus'd

This is hot off the Mac from Nimbus Independent:


Go to Nimbus Independent for more videos.



Go to Nimbus Independent for more videos.




The boys at Nimbus Independent have been hard at work skiing powder and jumping off of [stuff] on their skis. Which is fine with me as long as they film some of it and make it available to watch as well. Which they have. They also managed to dress up as Germanic natives in some nice lederhosen and too-tall socks. Not my favorite on the average Nimbus dude, but hey, they were drunk. I always find myself enthralled by their short webisodes because they are full of compelling images of the true spirit of skiing. Like this old guy, completely content with life because he is skiing. Sure we're all young and rebellious and we laugh, and cry, and delight in the fresh, wild, confusing, emotional, regenerative excitement of youth. And once that has been washed away by loss, greyed by wisdom, pierced by responsibility, and evaporated away along with the ebb of hormones, we can become wizened old people and sit back in the warm winter sun in our white one-pieces and smile.

Be sure to check their site for other webisodes of goodness.

South Champs

The South Series Champs went very well at Brighton last weekend. The competition was stiff, the courses were difficult, but we Sundancers held our own. Amanda and Jessica were our only girls there and put together some good runs. Great job chicas!

Zack and Kyle laid down a solid first run in GS, but then they both blew up on the same part of the course second run. Bummer. That's racing though and you should be happy with how you skied before that.

Hunter finished in a very fancy place of 17th in GS. Kendall W. Harris finished 24th. PJ came out in 14th, and Adam finished 23rd. Very nice skiing boys.

Slalom was a blast. We definitely need a lot more training in Slalom, but we skied amazingly well considering. Hunter F. had the best finish in 12th place. Nice work buddy. We had a bunch of DQ's, but once again, that's racing. Especially in Slalom. Overall, I am very pleased with how everyone skied in both GS and Slalom. Adam and PJ were DQ'd first run, had a mulligan, and slayed their second run. They both had breakthroughs this weekend and that's a success no matter what.

South Series is an entirely different animal than YSL. Way more competitive, but there is no doubt in my mind that we can hold our own once we get a hang of dealing with that mentality. We have the ability, now it's just working on the mental aspect. I think we have our work cut out for us next year. In the end it's all about fun, and we always have plenty of that.

Nice work team.

Slalom Training

If you check this in time, we are training Slalom on Thursday and Friday this week to prepare for the South Champs at Brighton. Please bring slalom skis if you have them. Sharpen your edges as well. It's still solid up there in the morning and it's going to be cold for the next few days with some snow accumulating at all elevations with the highs in the upper 20's. Depending on how much snow we get, it may be extremely hard still. So sharpen and tune your skis please! Get them to me and I can do it (or teach you how) if you have time.

Denial and Ignorance

I know, it's too early. But this warm weather is messing with my equilibriated hobby desires of sensations. What?

Anyways, I found this teaser for a bike video and it got me kind of excited to go ride. Even though it's a while away, and we will get at least two 4 foot dumps before the ski season is over. Oh well...


Barred For Life Teaser from Bjorn Aunet on Vimeo.

Proof

Alright, here it is, video... finally! I can't tell you how much of a pain it's been to get the video off of those Canon cameras and into a program that I can even watch them with, much less do anything with. Hours of frustration and wanting to beat my dogs and smoke a cigarette. I just chewed some bubble gum and everything was alright in the end, except that this video is the most bush league, amateur hour, newb abomination ever. But it's something at least. Things should go smoother from here on out though.

Joseph: I just had to! (watch the video) I like the aggression out of the start, we need more of that, seriously.

Josh got the hang of cameraman after the first couple of racers.



Neat 'o gang

Unstoppable

Oh Yes! I love it! (!!!)

Alright, it's official: Sundance Ski Team ain't no one to mess with! We owned once again at Snowbird today (Saturday). My face was just getting used to smiling so much after Brighton, and now it's gonna be even worse after today. Hap Hap Happy!



The girls set us up right with a solid 5th (9th overall) place from Amanda Flanagan and a very respectable 12th place finish from Samantha Brown. Way to go girls! Those J5 chicks are a tough crowd.

Then our boys showed those other team's boys (and girls) what is up. Dillon Flinders is bad a. He finished 10th in the J6's and 24th overall. After that, he went and threw down a massive 20ft 360. Hard Core.

Hunter Flinders led our J5's in 3rd (14th overall) and Kendall W. Harris brought home his first medal with a solid 10th place. Hunter also threw down some big 3's and aaaalmost got a 540. Kendall tried some 3's, but got beat down. You'll get 'em man. River Linebaugh finished in a very nice 17th position.

We had 3 J4's in the top ten! Joseph Prososki finished 7th (17th overall), Adam Brown killed it in fourth place, and my main man Peyton Baymiller took the day as number 1 (again)! Adam also finished 4th overall, and P.J. once again had the fastest time of the day by 0.46 seconds. If that wasn't enough, P.J. went and hucked a hugely perfect 540, Ain't no thang! Sorry dude, but I gotta brag a little.

Do the math: that's 7 medals. We had 14 athletes at the race. 50% brought home medals! 7 athletes in the top 10, and 11 in the top 20. 4 in the top 20 overall. That's freaking awesome in my book. Just like the Wu-Tang Clan, we ain't no one to mess wit'.

I would have some footage of this crispy fresh ownage, but my computer that has all the editing software decided to not startup anymore. It is being repaired as I type so hopefully I will have it ready to go tomorrow. If any of you parents have footage, please let me know so we can get it on here stat!

Thank you all for another successful race day! Our kids get the props first, then the parents. You guys are the best and none of this would be happening without you, literally.

Our next YSL race is the Brian Head Champs on the 14th and 15th of March. I hope everyone can make it down there for that. It is a very fun race, and we are sure to dominate once again. Get a place to stay soon, they sell out quick down there.

We also have our South Series Champs on the 7th and 8th of March at Brighton. I will send an email soon to those that are eligible.

Peace!

Still Here

I apologize for slacking on the updates. I am having computer difficulties with our cameras and they don't want to work with Mac.

We have an Avalanche Awareness class this Friday at 4:30 at the Nature Yurt. Please show up and bring whoever may be interested in learning the basics of staying alive. Bring snacks and goodies if you feel so inclined.

We also have a YSL race this Saturday at Snowbird. We are full of confidence after the Brighton domination, so Snowbird should be a piece of cake.

I hope everyone has been enjoying all of the fresh snow lately, it's been ridiculous.

Word

It snows over there too?

Here's a little something from a little movie called 'Real Time.' Just to hold us over till the next storm. You know how you can't see the skiers? Ya, that's snow, not compression fuzz from YouTube. Not to rub it in, but that's how it was at Alta last week, hehe.

So Many of Them

Check out these Slalom masters from the Adelboden World Cup. Herbst won. U.S. didn't do too well. Watch Herbst's run compared to Bode. Herbst is so solid and technically perfect. I always say Bode is a bad example to show for technique, but watch his line and where he puts the most amount of pressure on his skis (you should say, "in the fall line"). If he were to ski without a mistake, he would win by seconds. This kind of skiing is good to a point. If you're too conservative, you'll never win, but if your past the edge, you'll blow up. We need to ski more on the edge and let our skis run more. You'll hear me say to 'get off your skis quicker', or 'let 'em run', or 'be more active' a lot. This is all a part of being aggressive: putting yourself in a situation where you're past your comfort zone and are just barely hanging on. Try it out at training, especially in the gates but freeskiing as well. Try to look at a course and see exactly where you need to be and where you can cut off time. Shorter the distance your skis travel = faster time. Faster you ski down a powder run = more powder you get :) Plus it's fun to see how fast you can go without blowing up.





Mama Mia!

Like a Video Game

The Wengen Downhill went down last weekend. This course looks crazy, almost like a video game. Didier Defago took it, which means he is now a super star in Europe.



Bode Miller finished 4th. This camera angle from the heli really shows just how intense this course is. And how there is no snow in Europe this year. Lame.

Racetastic

I hope everyone had a great time at the races last weekend. I think it turned out to be a great weekend even with the weather we had. I love skiing in rain! That global warming is awesome. Check out the results here (for Park City)

Sundance represented with some solid results from the Flinders Brothers, both in the top 20. Amanda held it down for the girls with our best result at 12th place (sorry Hunter, you got girled ;) Our first time racers had a blast and learned a lot about racing and will be ready to charge at the next race. Look for footage soon!

The super G at Snowbasin truly was a good time. No sarcasm there. Even though it was a bit soggy, it turned out to be a great weekend. We only got off one race run, but we kicked some trash and learned a lot about speed events. My belief that it always snows at speed races was confirmed. After raining Friday and Saturday morning, it finally turned to snow around 1pm and never stopped. So we skied powder all day Sunday after the race was canceled. It was muy bueno.

Thank you all for your help and let me know how things went for each of you. If you have any comments or suggestions, I wold love to hear them.

PJ loves trees.

Hunter killin' it.

Jessica in her element.

The man we learn it all from.

Dillon!!!

Amanda, shredding a turn

'Mallow anyone?

Hours and hours of fun

Alta Badia GS

Daniel Albrecht takes first. Watch his legs. Notice how they do all the work? Like windshield wipers, back and forth, back and forth. Both knees doing the same thing at the same time. Driving forward and into the hill to set those edges. Notice his hips? They are forward the entire time. Upper body? Solid like a rock.

Sorry, they won't let me embed it on here. So check it out here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P1651meNqw

That course looks like a blast.

Christmas Camp Training

Check out your video of some gates during Christmas Camp. After that, watch the one above of a World Cup skier. What do you notice? Can you see what your doing that I've told you to work on?

Dillon: Notice your shoulders leaning into the turn? Notice what that does to your skis? Make them level.


PJ: For that day, you fixed your upper body, but you still need work on it. Now it will be moving your hip down the hill and being more 'active' in your skiing. Active means finishing the turn earlier and starting it sooner. See 'Hip Movement'


Hunter: Solid skiing, upper body is good, and both legs are doing the same thing. Notice how your tips are flopping around a bunch? Those are there for a reason. Get forward! Ask me how at training. This is now your main goal.


Kyle: Until I work on your boots, your new goal is to carve all the way through the turn. You do a lot of ankle skiing, as in smearing your turns with your ankles. See it? You need more knee skiing. Push both your knees towards your tips, and down into the turn. Your skis will hold, I promise.


Spencer: Good skiing. You have improved a lot last month. Your next step is to keep a strong upper body the entire run. Notice how your hips go back like your sitting down, and then you can't make the next turn a clean carve? We'll work on it.


Adam: This was your best run of the day. Still not the same Adam from last year, but it's coming back. See what I mean by both skis doing the same thing? Notice how one ski is always wandering off to Mars? Pause it right as you pass the camera. What do you notice? Your hips need to be over your boots. Right now, your just using your tails, that's why they wander.


Zach: Oh ya, you were sleeping that day :)

Again, sorry for the poor quality. And sorry for not getting everyone that did Christmas Camp.

It comes from the Sky

So, today was pretty good...



This was from a previous powder day. PJ, Zack, and I were hitting this cat track all day. Zack threw down some three's, but then got thrown down by the landing. Nice effort, you'll get it soon. PJ shows us how to do a 3: go big, follow your head, and make it look stylee.




Sorry for the poor quality. I am buying a nice camera for myself soon, so no more point and shoots. Yay! I will also buy 1 or 2 new cameras for the ski team. We will be using them as much as possible on training days. If any parents are interested in manning a tripod for a while during training, that would help out a lot. Let me know.

That was dirty

The following took place between the days of no snow, and the days of Snowplenty. Dirty sickness.

Zack, PJ, and I got first chair the day after Christmas. Merry Sickness

Beautiful Sickness


My Snow Monster got buried.



I'm trying to use other words besides 'sick.'