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
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Norwegian -White pass
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Adult league racing
Pinnacle
Ski racing for USSS competition; here is their site.
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Thunderbolt Racing
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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.
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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
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​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.
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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.
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Shiffrin Solden run 2018 Start of greatest World Cup season ever 17 victories
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Shiffrin Lake louise Super G win
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Shiffrin St. Moritz Super G win
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Shiffrin most WC wins in a year and top SL women ever
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Hirscher Sl left footer at 1:31 wow
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Shiffrin #38 SL #56 win 13/season US record
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Shiffrin Super G World Championship win
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Vonn's last race most World Cups victories of any woman
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Shiffrin sets record for most wins in a season 15L wins
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Shiffrin wins SL to tie Stenmark at 40 Sl wins
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Shiffrin wins GS title win 17 greatest season ever
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Shiffrin ties Stenmark's record for SL wins at 40
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Shiffrin greatest season ever 70 percent win ratio
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History being made by Shiffrin Hirscher and Vonn
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Future challenge for Shiffrin?
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Alice Robinson with Hirscher like power beats Shiffrin in Solden GS 2019
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Shiffrin breaks Stenmarks SL record
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Tommy Ford wins Beaver Creek GS
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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-
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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.
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Beyond racing with Daron Rahlves
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Forget racing Marcus the guy in this video is a former Snowbird Team member who raced NorAm ​
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More images below
