Month: April 2011

Level 7: Goals: more comfort, less anxious, early release, steering, ski like a girl. This group is gelling! Technical focus in AM, simultaneous femur twisting to effect early edge change and steering/shaping. Best snow: King. Best bumps: that an oxymoron.

Goals: release in mogals, inside foot steering, effortless skiing and create angles. Black, blue, bumps, ski one foot, javelin turns, stay tall, scrunch low, target the apex. Windy and warm. The afternoon a definite paradox.

Level 7. Goals: less sequential at top of turn, control nerves at top of steeps, dealing with ice, committing to the turn, reduce leaning, make it more effortless. So the question is: ‘Did the goals get addressed’? From the instructors standpoint, I saw good changes in all those objectives. Video was huge – the level of understanding constantly developing. A most productive day!

The ‘Babes’ … plus Don. Powder day. Impressed with all the feet in the group … they were steering, pressuring, shaping … they were NOT lifting off the snow – thank you very much! What a difference a couple weeks have made in everyones skiing – you ‘guys’ are good students.

April tele day – we rock guys – first one probably ever. Thank you for help getting this started – hopefully will grow from here. Monomarks and modified monos for about 200 turns and the shinboo shuffle (or whatever the thing will be called). If I don’t see you (plural) before winters end – HAVE A GREAT SUMMER!

PL: You are doing bumps … and you did a black bump run (Rounders). Initiating throught ‘the door’, twisting both legs, ski pressure high in the turn, torso down the mountain – so cool – good job. Thank you for two gran days. Sue is waiting for you in December. Have a great summer – take care.

Level 1 at 1:30pm – levels 2 & 3 by 3:30pm. How can the gliding wedge be so difficult? A better question yet: how can the gliding wedge be so easy? “If you can glide ‘um, you can turn ‘um”. Pleasure meeting all of you – took a little time to find the humor in each of you – but as these pictures reveal, found it!

Great morning PL – skid, skid and more skid – with some shaping and a tad bit of hand discipline. Thank you for being an inquisitive student – the best kind.