How to be the best ski racing parent possible
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Alpine Canada Alpin (ACA)
See the changes from level 2 to 3, especially how the kids start to use their ankles.
Burke Mountain Academy
BMA videos most are for strong skiers
Norwegian -White pass
NASTAR
Adult league racing
Pinnacle
Ski racing for USSS competition; here is their site.
Thunderbolt Racing
Thunderbolt racing provides training for different age groups. There are a variety of programs: evenings, weekend.
Coaching a Thunderbolt group provides the challenge of working with the same group for several weeks in a row. Focus on an athletic stance and skiing from the bottom up. here are some exercises.
Racing requires good technique and tactics. Tactics is finding the fastest line through the course, and it takes a lot of practice. Skiing the shortest distance is the goal, but a common problem is skiing too direct and skidding after the gate. The other problem is turning too early and skiing a path that is longer and slow.
On steep, injected courses, world cup racers may purposely skid the start of a turn to stay on a tighter line (stivot). Even if they lose a little speed, the shorter line can still be faster. Skidding in the top half of the turn loses less energy than skidding later in a turn because the forces are lower.
Ski Moves
The picture of Shiffrin above is the image of what Ski Moves look like at the gate with progressive ankle flex and tipping (angulation) to keep her COM moving offensively. Notice the inside lead that allows angulation.
Challenge
Go to the 2019 Dave C. race photos here, there are 33 pages of them, and see if you can find any examples of athletes skiing through this image of Ski Moves there are more images at the bottom of this page.
Shiffrin Solden run 2018 Start of greatest World Cup season ever 17 victories
Shiffrin Lake louise Super G win
Shiffrin St. Moritz Super G win
Shiffrin most WC wins in a year and top SL women ever
Hirscher Sl left footer at 1:31 wow
Shiffrin #38 SL #56 win 13/season US record
Shiffrin Super G World Championship win
Vonn's last race most World Cups victories of any woman
Shiffrin sets record for most wins in a season 15L wins
Shiffrin wins SL to tie Stenmark at 40 Sl wins
Shiffrin wins GS title win 17 greatest season ever
Shiffrin ties Stenmark's record for SL wins at 40
Shiffrin greatest season ever 70 percent win ratio
History being made by Shiffrin Hirscher and Vonn
Future challenge for Shiffrin?
Alice Robinson with Hirscher like power beats Shiffrin in Solden GS 2019
Shiffrin breaks Stenmarks SL record
Tommy Ford wins Beaver Creek GS
It is hard understand how challenging great skiing is to execute and the years of daily coaching it takes to achieve and maintain. It is helpful for skiers to understand how hard racers like Shiffrin train so they see the fun, challenge, and benefits that drills can provide.
Why you are not an elite athlete, quote Shiffrin made below-
SHIFFRIN: Ski racing is a really unique sport in many ways. When you think about it, the actual time that I spend, or any racer spends, on the hill actually skiing during a day of training — let’s say you get, one course length is about 60 seconds long, and you get seven runs in one training session. And that takes about somewhere between three to five hours, depending on how long the chairlift takes. So you’re adding up about seven minutes total of practice in your sport for the entire training session, which is comparative to, say, three to five hours of somebody playing tennis in a single session. Which makes me feel like the deliberate practice component is that much more essential. There’s skiers out there, teammates of mine in the past, who spend their time from the top of the chairlift to the top of the race course, it could be half of a train length, that they’re skiing down and they’re just flailing about and doing whatever. And I was doing drills to the top of the course, trying to make use of every square inch of space on the mountain. Every time I’m deliberately practicing skiing and my technique and everything, I’m kind of getting a one-up on everybody else who’s not.
Beyond racing with Daron Rahlves
Forget racing Marcus the guy in this video is a former Snowbird Team member who raced NorAm
More images below
