Giant Slalom Training In The Sun

Today was another clear (and cold) day with perfect conditions for training.
GS today wit the Surbiton girls building on the skills from their October camp in readiness for the races later in the week. The way they're skiing, we're hoping for some success in the races.
Gerard took a one run break from coaching to have a run in the course, much to the amusement of the cameraman - Gerard GS Run
 A brief free ski after lunch, followed by ski prep for slalom tomorrow.

Another windy day in Deux Alpes

This morning started badly - high winds meaning that most of the lifts were closed. Only a couple of lifts at village level were open and they were packed! So we were pretty pleased when the village chair opened to get us up to the area where we've been training.
It was a bit of a trek to get there but we got set and started slalom training just before lunch. I don't know whether it was the shedload of drills we did during the morning but the guys skied the best they had all week! Very pleasing for their last day of this camp...and the wind died down for the training.

Slalom training

Perfect Conditions

Today brought much colder temperatures and hard snow which was more conducive to slalom training after the soft snow of yesterday.
The day started with the cloud coming in and out but after a while the cloud disappeared completely, leaving us able to get some good quality training in.
Tomorrow is the last day for this group so fingers crossed for another good day.

Sl training

At Last!!

We finally got up onto the mountain today (in dry-ish conditions) to get on with some technical work ahead of any gate training for slalom which we've planned for the week.
Snow was still a bit wet lower down and soft higher up but we found a piste in the middle that was firm enough to facilitate the training we wanted to do.
So gates tomorrow, as long as conditions allow!

Tech work 7 Dec 2010

Wet and windy!!

After the high winds closing most of the mountain yesterday, when I woke up today, It was pouring with rain. It hasn't stooped all day in the village. We ventured up the gondola and it was snowing much higher up. After about 3 runs we called it a day as the rain lower down was relentless. Temperatures are set to fall again mid-week, and with a bit of luck there won’t be too much damage to the lower slopes. Hopefully will be better tomorrow and we can get to training.

wind starts play in Deux Alpes

Well, the first day in Deux Alpes did not go as planned, High winds and snow caused the mountain to be shut and just the nursery runs open, what to do?
Hire some boards and make fools of ourselves! that was hard work, but fun.

see how we did here: Beginner Boarding in Deux Alpes

Brass Monkey Weather in Tignes

In Tignes this week running a course called 'Taste of Race' for Inspired To Ski.
The week has gone very well with a bit of everything weather-wise.  Yesterday was snowing and had been for over 24 hours.
Today it cleared and was sunny, giving us a beautiful day and great snow for training. The only common denominator all week has been the cold. it's pretty baltic here!
1 more day of the course left then off to Deux Alpes for an Impulse training week.

View from the glacier today