Monday, November 8, 2010
Saturday, November 6, 2010
One of the best
Idea is my favorite ski movie of all time. Watch it all for free and get stoked on skiing some phat der.
Idea from NIMBUS INDEPENDENT on Vimeo.
Idea from NIMBUS INDEPENDENT on Vimeo.
Get Learned
For anyone that's ever asked, "What tricks are possible on a rail?" Surface rider Jeff Kiesel shows you what's up.
Polar Summer from Jeff Kiesel on Vimeo.
Polar Summer from Jeff Kiesel on Vimeo.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Monday, October 25, 2010
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Friday, October 22, 2010
So fresh and So clean
No! Weightlifting is not bad for kids. Done properly, the neurological and neuromuscular gains will benefit the growing athlete immeasurably.
Find out how and why at Conditioning.
(Weightlifting the sport is different than weight lifting, the sport is much better)
Happy Century Post!
100 Posts! Detroit What!
A centennial in anything deserves a celebration in something.
It's a celebration!
Please send me two pictures of your athlete(s) skiing. One a 'before ski team' and the other an 'after ski team' picture. Embarrass your kids as much as possible. The pictures showing the best improvement (or funniest) will win a goodie bag and a free ski tune. Send them to my email please.
A centennial in anything deserves a celebration in something.
It's a celebration!
Please send me two pictures of your athlete(s) skiing. One a 'before ski team' and the other an 'after ski team' picture. Embarrass your kids as much as possible. The pictures showing the best improvement (or funniest) will win a goodie bag and a free ski tune. Send them to my email please.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Dryland Games
Dryland Games will take place in early November! Stay tuned for details.
Anyone can compete, even non-team members.
Get ready for the First Annual Sundance Dryland Games! Kids will compete for a chance to win a grand prize. We'll be throwing out free swag like Skullcandy head phones, t-shirts, hats, stickers, goggles, gloves, and other accessories.
Below is a list of the exercises that we'll do. The athlete with the highest number of points wins the grand prize. Points are accumulated by number of reps and where they finish in the other exercises that don't have reps, e.g. 1st place in the 50 m dash gets 50 points.
Bonus exercises like the muscle up and handstand push-ups earn 10x's the points!
Max nonstop pull-ups:
Max nonstop push-ups:
Max nonstop sit-ups:
Max nonstop squats:
Max Handstand Push-ups: Worth 10x's the points!
Max Planch Push-ups (real):Worth 10x's the points!
Longest L-sit:
Max Dips:
Fastest 50m dash:
Fastest Agility Ladder:
Fastest Hex:
Max Non-stop box jumps in 30 sec:
Highest Vertical Leap:
Longest Broadjump:
Max Muscle-ups: Worth 10x's the points!
Hope you're ready! Tell your friends.
Anyone can compete, even non-team members.
Get ready for the First Annual Sundance Dryland Games! Kids will compete for a chance to win a grand prize. We'll be throwing out free swag like Skullcandy head phones, t-shirts, hats, stickers, goggles, gloves, and other accessories.
Below is a list of the exercises that we'll do. The athlete with the highest number of points wins the grand prize. Points are accumulated by number of reps and where they finish in the other exercises that don't have reps, e.g. 1st place in the 50 m dash gets 50 points.
Bonus exercises like the muscle up and handstand push-ups earn 10x's the points!
Max nonstop pull-ups:
Max nonstop push-ups:
Max nonstop sit-ups:
Max nonstop squats:
Max Handstand Push-ups: Worth 10x's the points!
Max Planch Push-ups (real):Worth 10x's the points!
Longest L-sit:
Max Dips:
Fastest 50m dash:
Fastest Agility Ladder:
Fastest Hex:
Max Non-stop box jumps in 30 sec:
Highest Vertical Leap:
Longest Broadjump:
Max Muscle-ups: Worth 10x's the points!
Hope you're ready! Tell your friends.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Monday, October 18, 2010
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Flexibility//
One of the most important of the ten general physical skills is flexibility. It is often the most overlooked and forgotten. Most people disregard flexibility as a waste of time because they feel like they don't need it.
Wrong.
Flexibility has traditionally been taught as a means of preventing injury, and only to prevent injury. It does this, but that's not all it's for. Short muscles prevent our bodies from using their natural leverage to generate the most power efficiently. Let's look at the hamstrings. Often the shortest muscle with the greatest impact on power, speed, strength, endurance, agility, balance, and getting hurt.
The hamstrings involve two joints: the hip and the knee. This is important because most of the typical musculoskeletal complaints involving the knee, hip, or even back typically have short hamstrings. This is because when you do hip based movements (jumping, skiing, any sport) the consequences will be felt on the knee because the hip is taking up slack in the hamstring and stealing length from the knee, and vice verse.
There's the injury aspect of flexibility. Now think of that stretching and pulling on joints and transfer it to other muscles. Take the quadriceps. They are the muscles that stabilize the pelvis and knees and extend our legs when we do squats. However, this should be the main job of the hamstrings through hip extension. Our quads take over because they are compensating for the shortness in our hamstrings. This is exactly like driving around with the parking brake on.
Here's a quick test: Sit on a table with the back of your knees against the corner. Keep your back straight and raise one leg. Can you get to full extension without rounding your lower back? Can you raise both legs without rounding? Probably not.
Here's the fix:
Stretch often
It's ideal to stretch after the workout
You can stretch anytime, really.
Use the contract and release cycle in all your stretches. Ask me if you don't know
Here are a few great stretches:
Lie on back use a towel, or rope, or partner to bring one leg up (either straight or bent at knee) Athletic range is 80-85 degrees before it starts lifting hip off ground
Samson Stretch
Wall Walk
Weighted Pike
Squat - butt to ankles, jump out from bottom
Romanian Deadlifts
Good Mornings
Ask me if you don't know!
3.2.1... GO!
Wrong.
Flexibility has traditionally been taught as a means of preventing injury, and only to prevent injury. It does this, but that's not all it's for. Short muscles prevent our bodies from using their natural leverage to generate the most power efficiently. Let's look at the hamstrings. Often the shortest muscle with the greatest impact on power, speed, strength, endurance, agility, balance, and getting hurt.
The hamstrings involve two joints: the hip and the knee. This is important because most of the typical musculoskeletal complaints involving the knee, hip, or even back typically have short hamstrings. This is because when you do hip based movements (jumping, skiing, any sport) the consequences will be felt on the knee because the hip is taking up slack in the hamstring and stealing length from the knee, and vice verse.
There's the injury aspect of flexibility. Now think of that stretching and pulling on joints and transfer it to other muscles. Take the quadriceps. They are the muscles that stabilize the pelvis and knees and extend our legs when we do squats. However, this should be the main job of the hamstrings through hip extension. Our quads take over because they are compensating for the shortness in our hamstrings. This is exactly like driving around with the parking brake on.
Here's a quick test: Sit on a table with the back of your knees against the corner. Keep your back straight and raise one leg. Can you get to full extension without rounding your lower back? Can you raise both legs without rounding? Probably not.
Here's the fix:
Stretch often
It's ideal to stretch after the workout
You can stretch anytime, really.
Use the contract and release cycle in all your stretches. Ask me if you don't know
Here are a few great stretches:
Lie on back use a towel, or rope, or partner to bring one leg up (either straight or bent at knee) Athletic range is 80-85 degrees before it starts lifting hip off ground
Samson Stretch
Wall Walk
Weighted Pike
Squat - butt to ankles, jump out from bottom
Romanian Deadlifts
Good Mornings
Ask me if you don't know!
3.2.1... GO!
Friday, October 8, 2010
Team Jackets
Send your jacket size to Tyson if you need a new one or are new to the team. If you have an old one that's too small, please get it to Tyson as well. If you would like to sell a team jacket, get it to Tyson as well.
Thank you!
Thank you!
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Nutrition x's dos
Parents! Proper nutrition is especially important for your young athlete. They need help making the right eating decisions. Surround them with healthy foods and snacks. Here is a very basic guideline to follow that will help tremendously with your child's athletic performance:
Base your diet on garden vegetable, especially greens, lean meats, nuts and seeds, little starch, and no sugar.
Buy 90% of your groceries from the perimeter of the store. Avoid the aisles.
Food is perishable, anything with a long shelf life is suspect.
Excessive consumption of high-glycemic carbohydrates is the primary culprit in nutritionally caused health problems. High glycemic carbohydrates are those that raise blood sugar too rapidly. They include rice, bread, candy, potato, sweets, sodas, and most processed carbohydrates. Processing can include bleaching, baking, grinding, and refining. Processing of carbohydrates greatly increases their glycemic index, a measure of their propensity to elevate blood sugar.
That's it in a nutshell. The risks of not eating healthy far outweigh the difficulties of doing so. Poor diet has been linked to a plague of health problems for modern man. Coronary heart disease, diabetes, cancer, osteoporosis, obesity and psychological dysfunction are all horrible outcomes of poor diet choice.
Besides that, your kids are incredibly active and constantly busy. They need as much energy as possible to perform at their top level all the time. So clean out those candy drawers and get creative.
Base your diet on garden vegetable, especially greens, lean meats, nuts and seeds, little starch, and no sugar.
Buy 90% of your groceries from the perimeter of the store. Avoid the aisles.
Food is perishable, anything with a long shelf life is suspect.
Excessive consumption of high-glycemic carbohydrates is the primary culprit in nutritionally caused health problems. High glycemic carbohydrates are those that raise blood sugar too rapidly. They include rice, bread, candy, potato, sweets, sodas, and most processed carbohydrates. Processing can include bleaching, baking, grinding, and refining. Processing of carbohydrates greatly increases their glycemic index, a measure of their propensity to elevate blood sugar.
That's it in a nutshell. The risks of not eating healthy far outweigh the difficulties of doing so. Poor diet has been linked to a plague of health problems for modern man. Coronary heart disease, diabetes, cancer, osteoporosis, obesity and psychological dysfunction are all horrible outcomes of poor diet choice.
Besides that, your kids are incredibly active and constantly busy. They need as much energy as possible to perform at their top level all the time. So clean out those candy drawers and get creative.
Monday, September 20, 2010
Nutrition
Eating what we are supposed to eat is hard. Period. We have all tried to eat healthy, and it seems to only last a week, or a month, until we can't resist the urge to munch on some potato chips, or gummy worms, or get a soda on a long road trip (or until our wallets are empty). We tell ourselves it's only this once, besides, we can't go totally cold turkey, that'd be impossible, ha!
The fact is, it's hard. Soda pop is the second hardest addiction to break; it beats heroin on the difficulty level to quit. Probably because it's so readily available, probably because it's cool and refreshing on the tongue, probably because it's delicious.
The fact is, you can't totally give up eating everything that's bad for you. But you can definitely make it easier to choose to eat the good stuff. As an athlete, the physical demands you place on your body are much greater than a non-athlete. As a young athlete, your body can handle a lot more punishment than an adult's. You may think that you're invincible and junk food has no affect. Ha, those adults are stupid! I totally ate 12 doughnuts before that soccer game and felt just fine! Maybe so, but it will not always be that way.
The fact is, it's only hard because it's not part of our routine. Start now! Make it a habit to polish off those greens, drink water or sports drinks instead of soda, eat those home cooked meals whenever you can. Try it, go without sugar for a week, or two weeks, and see if you can't run a little faster, or play a little harder or longer. You'll notice a difference, and you're body will thank you in 5 years.
The fact is, it's hard. Soda pop is the second hardest addiction to break; it beats heroin on the difficulty level to quit. Probably because it's so readily available, probably because it's cool and refreshing on the tongue, probably because it's delicious.
The fact is, you can't totally give up eating everything that's bad for you. But you can definitely make it easier to choose to eat the good stuff. As an athlete, the physical demands you place on your body are much greater than a non-athlete. As a young athlete, your body can handle a lot more punishment than an adult's. You may think that you're invincible and junk food has no affect. Ha, those adults are stupid! I totally ate 12 doughnuts before that soccer game and felt just fine! Maybe so, but it will not always be that way.
The fact is, it's only hard because it's not part of our routine. Start now! Make it a habit to polish off those greens, drink water or sports drinks instead of soda, eat those home cooked meals whenever you can. Try it, go without sugar for a week, or two weeks, and see if you can't run a little faster, or play a little harder or longer. You'll notice a difference, and you're body will thank you in 5 years.
Friday, September 10, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
Nimbus Rollin On Dubs
Check out Nimbus Independent's new release 'en route departure.' Below is the 5 minute teaser, go to www.nimbusindependent.com for the full movie. These guys always get me stoked to ski!
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Brighton YSL*
Chyaaaaaaaaaaa!!! Sundance Rules!
Our boys and girls got work done at Brighton today! I wasn't there, but I heard all about the domination.
Amanda Flanagan led our J-4 girls with a 4th place, followed by Samantha Brown in 8th and a solid 12th from Anna-Marie Sprenger. It's about time to move onto bigger and better races for these girls.
Andrew Freedman led the J6 boys with a 10th, followed closely by Cole Nicolson in 12th. J6 boys is a tough group, nice work!
Dillon Flinders finished in a very nice 8th place, with Niclas Carlson right behind him in 9th. J5 boys is the toughest, largest group at YSL, the top 5 all beat the 3rd place finisher in the J4 boys, just goes to say that our boys can hang.
With four in the top ten of J4 boys, we did pretty darn well. Thomas Freedman was 9th, Dean Smith finished 8th, Kendall Harris was 6th and last but not least, the man of the day, Hunter Flinders was number 1! That's right, on the top is where Sundance belongs! He also had the fastest time of the day. Risin' high like the morning sun!
A big thumbs up to erryone!
Check out the official results and times after the jump
I'm so happy right now.
Our boys and girls got work done at Brighton today! I wasn't there, but I heard all about the domination.
Amanda Flanagan led our J-4 girls with a 4th place, followed by Samantha Brown in 8th and a solid 12th from Anna-Marie Sprenger. It's about time to move onto bigger and better races for these girls.
Andrew Freedman led the J6 boys with a 10th, followed closely by Cole Nicolson in 12th. J6 boys is a tough group, nice work!
Dillon Flinders finished in a very nice 8th place, with Niclas Carlson right behind him in 9th. J5 boys is the toughest, largest group at YSL, the top 5 all beat the 3rd place finisher in the J4 boys, just goes to say that our boys can hang.
With four in the top ten of J4 boys, we did pretty darn well. Thomas Freedman was 9th, Dean Smith finished 8th, Kendall Harris was 6th and last but not least, the man of the day, Hunter Flinders was number 1! That's right, on the top is where Sundance belongs! He also had the fastest time of the day. Risin' high like the morning sun!
A big thumbs up to erryone!
Check out the official results and times after the jump
I'm so happy right now.
Monday, January 4, 2010
Friday, January 1, 2010
A review from last years lessons.
Below is an introduction to the most important technique in skiing, hip movement. Once a solid upper body (arms up, core flexed, shoulders level and facing down the hill, and little movement)is established with good leg movements (pushing both knees into the hill with good ankle flexion) Then you can combine those two things with a strong hip movement down the hill in the transition, you vill be very fhaaast. This also helps with freesking and powder skiing.
Check out the images below:
Nicole Hosp demonstrates a nice hip movement in this picture. In the first frame, she is completing her previous turn. Now she wants to start her next turn, so now she releases her edges by moving her hips over her skis and down the hill. Look at frame 2. It almost looks like she jumps off her skis and is about to fall forward. Now to start the next turn, she pushes both her knees down the hill and into the snow (like we have been doing) This sets her edges for the turn and allows her to pressure early in order to keep a high line for that turn.
This hip movement does a lot of things. First it ends the previous turn, turning is slow, the sooner you can end a turn, the faster you'll be. Next it takes most all of your body weight and puts it on the front of your boots, which transfers it to the tips of your skis, which dig into the snow and takes you for a ride. It also puts you in a more balanced position. And finally, it allows you to stay ahead of the course (or powder, or steep hill in powder, or rocks, trees, and shrubbies in powder) Which is another way to say turnshape. Remember turnshape? Get the turn done above the gate, then it's a lot less work. More on that later.
Below is an introduction to the most important technique in skiing, hip movement. Once a solid upper body (arms up, core flexed, shoulders level and facing down the hill, and little movement)is established with good leg movements (pushing both knees into the hill with good ankle flexion) Then you can combine those two things with a strong hip movement down the hill in the transition, you vill be very fhaaast. This also helps with freesking and powder skiing.
Check out the images below:
Nicole Hosp demonstrates a nice hip movement in this picture. In the first frame, she is completing her previous turn. Now she wants to start her next turn, so now she releases her edges by moving her hips over her skis and down the hill. Look at frame 2. It almost looks like she jumps off her skis and is about to fall forward. Now to start the next turn, she pushes both her knees down the hill and into the snow (like we have been doing) This sets her edges for the turn and allows her to pressure early in order to keep a high line for that turn.
This hip movement does a lot of things. First it ends the previous turn, turning is slow, the sooner you can end a turn, the faster you'll be. Next it takes most all of your body weight and puts it on the front of your boots, which transfers it to the tips of your skis, which dig into the snow and takes you for a ride. It also puts you in a more balanced position. And finally, it allows you to stay ahead of the course (or powder, or steep hill in powder, or rocks, trees, and shrubbies in powder) Which is another way to say turnshape. Remember turnshape? Get the turn done above the gate, then it's a lot less work. More on that later.
Sunday, December 27, 2009
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.
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.
This is Amanda Flanagans old gear. Call Renee Flanagan at 801-368-5107 for details.
Friday, December 11, 2009
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.
Monday, December 7, 2009
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
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.
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