This
Christmas holidays, 3 SASA members enjoyed all that
The
snow was deep, the weather kinder than it could have been and the powder fell
daily. Top that up with friendly locals and excellent homestay
parents and the experience was complete.
Great
for free skiing and improving "all mountain" technique but, thanks to
the set-up at the Academy, training was good too.
Overnight
the training piste was 'graded' and then coaches and
athletes were up early to set gates and 'deep slip' the course to make it ready
for training. The car park is a few paces from 'red' lift and the lift runs
alongside the training piste so a morning training
(9am - 1pm) was a pretty good workout. After that free skiing was until 3pm, so
athletes can work for themselves on what they have been focussing on, or simply
have fun and improve their 'all mountain' skiing. No wonder they looked so
happy.
The
FIS team worked on a long course, the K1 and K2 skiers trained a shorter course
nearby and Morgan joined the 'holiday club' to meet some of the locals and work
on aspects of his skiing we get almost no chance to cover here in Europe.
Brilliant!
Anyone
wanting more info on the Academy at