4th September 2011 at 10:51PM

My god, this internet is so frustrating, i have tried everywhere in the last few days to upload some pics and nowhere is playing ball.... it took about 3 hours to get this one below up.... Not too exciting and its more to do with the last post than this one!

Anyway, since our days off in Santiago, the guys have been on good form, we have had 3 days of Super-G training on a variety of pistes, with Luke Steyn especially finding some speed and challenging for the fastest times. Saturday saw us move back on GS training on yet another piste, where Roy Steudle was right back on form, blitzing the timing session with very strong skiing from him. The girls have also done well this week, with big steps forward from Thomasine and Alex in SG, great to see them more competitive in the timing sessions too. Sadly Thomasine and Ellie have picked up minor injuries this week, Ellie with some back problems out of the blue and Thomasine having a bit of a fight with a GS gate yesterday.

We have also had the DH boards on this week for jumping practice - each lunchtime the jump has been closed off and Ambition along with the other teams have been able to practice the jump 5-6 times. These kind of opportunities are pretty rare so we have been making the most of this. Roy, Luke and Ellie also managed to have a few runs on the full length DH track with the Russian National Team - again great experience for them and we hope all of this will help us be competitive in the races on Tuesday and Wednesday.

The difference with this camp to the past 2 years in Chile has definitely been the variety of training pistes. We have not run more than 2 sessions on any piste - making for lots of good inspection practice and new feelings every day for the athletes. 

What else.... well the new radios for Motorola are in so thats good news, should help communications especially on the longer speed hills, also work starts on the new ski room in Leogang tomorrow so im looking forward to seeing that progress also.

ALL ENGLAND

Just managed to get onto today's results from the All England and it was great to see both Ella Ward (1st) and Will Wheeler (3rd) making the podium in CH1 & CH2 respectively. Benn Hall also tells me that Ambition took the Karting title on Saturday night, we all love a bit of karting during the season and there is actually an ice karting track about 200m from the new base in Leogang - lots of winter practice i think.

Last but definitely not least, K-Dogg aka Kieran Norris, has been awarded the Tim Reader award for the most improved Junior boy this year. A brilliant achievement and certainly the focus and improvements we have seen since easter and in Chile especially, very well deserved. 

Hopefully i can get some more pics online soon..... very frustrating!!