
Day 3 complete, wow this has shot past this week.
We had some great sessions today, the timing up for the starts, some memory routines on the slope, fitness testing and of course a few sessions blasting some gates, looking at specific tactics and putting the start technique into practice. It was actually pretty interesting to see which athletes were fastest over the first 3-4 seconds compared to those who are usually quickest over a full length course. Room for improvement for a few of the bigger guys thats for sure!!!
Tomorrow we will get ready in the morning with some team-building games off of the slope, followed by our video Syncro competition, to be judged by the coaches over lunch, or some more technical work outside of the gates before tomorrow's afternoon race.
The format will be a club national style race, with the best time of the first 2 runs, plus the 3rd run time to count.
The GoPro will be awarded to the fastest time of the day and with so many athletes skiing fast, it will be great to see who will be pushing that extra bit to secure the victory!
Justin has just been going through the prizes next to me and i'm sure all of the kids will be happy with their reward for a week of hard work - Snow & Rock have made a great contribution to the camp with boots bags for every athlete, Dianese back supports and arranging the GoPro deal for us - not to mention the 20% discounts they have been giving to Ambition athletes all of this week.
Level have provided loads of headwear and gloves to give out as prizes and have supplied special prices to UK athletes on the SQ range (120€) along with the Axel Pro model (100€). So anyone needing level gloves please feel free to contact us directly or pick them up tomorrow!
Atomic of course have been supplying the staff and test skis all week and we would not be where we are on these camps without them, they have such a keen interest in the grass routes of racing and it is great to see so many young athletes benefitting from their support.
Well that's it for now, im looking forward to some great racing tomorrow afternoon!