Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Now that's Performing

Week before last we had our second performance camp of the season, though not blessed with an abundance of fresh snow (or any for that matter) we still had a great week charging the pistes and parks.



The conditions were perfect for working on the details of technique and the week’s lessons started thus, deconstructing everyone’s riding, working out the kinks and building it back up.
As the days moved on we started to get a bit more playful, throwing our weight around a bit. Working through the park getting the skills required for getting in the air with some pop and stability.



This developed onto looking at terrain and how the natural version differs from the man made and the ways in which you need to adjust your riding to cope with the changes and what can be found to enjoy without going further afield than the sides of the piste.



Around the riding there was a lot of waxing (boards of course), a near wedding (what dream day can’t be organised over dinner the night before), home work (nice to know someone was taking what we said seriously), board testing and comparing, a quiz with plasticine round, some competitive lego, drinking acrobatics, an awards ceremony and maybe a just few hangovers.
Cheers again for a great week everyone


Dave leading the way.


Serious business this snowboarding.


Can you guess what it is yet?


Plastic fantastic.


I didn't come on holiday to use my brain

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