You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure.
Over the course of the Christmas break the gang heads out to our local ski hill affiliates. We often join forces with the other U16 programs in the region and train collaboratively. Our plan of going back to some basic fundamental training to make use of what is available in Ottawa (which is usually minimal) at the time of year has worked out very nicely.
We have a larger group of Ontario athletes from Camp fortune this year on the team. Nicole Clarke, Michael Power, Lake Korte-Moore, Hunter Watson and Nicholas Caves have come to the NCOST from Camp Fortune Ski Club. We spent Thur.Dec 19th & Fri.Dec 20th at Fortune working predominantly on stance and balance. It was very interesting to see the big and fast athletes ski on the same runs as the beginners doing some very beginner drills.
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Ben Beaudoin wearing only his left ski pictured above with a young free skier on the lift that services the easier terrain at Camp Fortune.
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...We continued the same exercises a littler deeper into the Outaouais while at Vorlage on December 21st & 22nd. We have a 2nd year athlete Abby Thomas who calls Vorlage her home hill. To give our readers a little perspective at this point we are on day 3 & 4 of skiing with no poles and continuing with the same 3 drills: Lots of Javeline skiing (inside ski up and crossed over the outside ski), One ski skiing (natural balance & risk taking), A range of snowplow exercises as well as some skating drills to engage a lot of lower joint activity.
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| Madeline - pictured above was recruited on the bunny hill at Vorlage and took a kind interest in the athletes. She was really curious what the "batons" were that the athletes were using. Each athlete received a third of a gate shaft that some chose to decorate with multi coloured duct tape. They also use it to maintain a strong upper body position (hand height and lower and upper body separation. |
Below is a summary of some of the tactical information (sequencing of movements) we discussed with the athletes while engaging their minds at slower speeds. It is very important to us that the athletes develop a solid platform and then begin to sequence their movements. We setup different environments to challenge their balance and test their balance skills.
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