Hintertux summer training video

So here is the video I made from Summer Camp in Hintertux this year!

 

Thanks to Mark Vinter, Sean Langmuir, Lynn Sharp, Eilidh Mc Leod and Dougie Mills for the footage.

 

Enjoy the video and share please!!

Back home!!

So I'm back home after a long, tiring but exciting month on the Hintertux glacier with the British under 16's Team and Telford. The month was long and hard but the extended length of time spent training gave me exceptional improvements in my skiing and to work key areas of my fitness.

Snow conditions weren't great, however when there is snow on the mountain there is always an opportunity to improve, which is what I try to do every day. Some days you can feel improvements, some days you can't but after a month on the mountain the changes in my skiing were pretty evident.

The vast improvements were made with the help of my coaches Mark Vinter, Lynn Sharp, Dougie Mills, Eilidh McLeod and Sean Langmuir (as well as some hard work and dedication from me!). I'd like to thank those 5 people for the hard work they did in the month I was at Hintertux and last but not least Julie Vinter for looking after all of the boys and girls at the Telford camp.

The goals set for the camp were as follows

1. Keep my hands up when skiing
2. Keep my hips up during the turn
3. Move my pressure points and line before the gate NOT after it
4. Keep on top of good fitness, work on weak areas and develop them into strong areas

I think I achieved all of these goals and hopefully my coaches will agree. 

Now summer camp was great but as an athlete it is always good to plan for the future and October camp promises to be a great week or two for me.

A definite week in Hintertux, with a schedueld but not yet finalised extra week, sounds a great prospect to look forward to. In addition to this I'll have new skis to look forward to getting on the white stuff and this very exciting. It looks to be a challenging camp with conditions being colder it should stay hard under foot for longer during the day and provide better conditions to train in. Personally I think that it will be interesting to see if I can put what I have learnt throughout the summer on my existing skis can be put into my skiing on newer longer skis. 

   Thanks to HEAD for the continued great sponsorship and support deal.
 It is very much appreciated 

The new skis I will be getting very kindly from HEAD are 165cm slalom and 188 GS skis, compared to last season and summer camp where I had 155cm slalom and 183cm GS skis. Going from a 155 women's slalom ski to a 165 men's ski is a huge adaptation but offers the real opportunity to find a bit more speed!

Looking forward to October Camp !! 

Finally if anyone is interested there will be a Youtube video coming in the next week with a montage of this summer camp 2012 including on and off snow as well as some video footage from Laax freestyle academy - which was ace!