This was my first Inside Out trip, I spent a day at Hemel with Rob prior to doing my L1 two years ago and have done some shadowing with both Rob and Scott, but this was my first experience abroad as a client.
The travel was fine, easyjet left Liverpool on time and landed early. My transfer driver was waiting at the hub and after dragging the other guys out of the pub we set off.
I think it was about midnight when we arrived in Tignes Les Boisses, to be met by some lovely home made soup, bread, cheese and ham!
The next day dawned bright and sunny, but the funicular was slow to open due to a technical fault. However once up on the mountain and on the snow it was clear how great a day this was going to be, lovely fresh winter snow everywhere, and not too many queues.
There were *LOTS* of very good racers and lanes set up covering most of the mountain!!
There were 7 in our group, we spent both days doing drills to improve our performance by getting the weight onto our new downhill ski as early as possible.
Evenings were spent doing some video analysis as a group, which worked really well and helped bond the group in my view.
After that shower, beers and dinner called!
Sunday was cloudier with light snow falling most of the day, the funicular was only slightly delayed and were on the hill ready to go by 9:45…….just a small matter of waiting for the others who missed the funi up!
We were skiing by 10:15 and great news was that Tignes had opened the Vanoise chair, so we had some new terrain to play in.
There was plenty of fresh off-piste around, but given the glacial terrain we weren’t tempted and stuck to some more one legged drills.
I think everyone in our group had made huge improvement after just one day! We took a coffee break around one and headed back out for another hour,
we found some variable unpisted snow and had some fun in that...
I ate the packed lunch provided by the chalet and nipped out for 3 laps of Vanoise before they closed it at 2:45pm. I spotted Ian from Inside Out putting in some extra time with his group on one of my journeys’ up the the chair.
Back for more video analysis, beer and some balance board fun, including a spectacular fall by Scott!!
Sunday unfortunately was blown off, so we watched the snow get heavier and heavier whilst the wind got stronger and stronger! The inside out boys made sure we were kept amused though with a very thorough talk and demo by Scott on ski tuning and then video analysis of all sorts of skiing styles from “self-taught” to “world cup” standards.
The mini buses left early as the roads were pretty white despite the constant snow ploughing, but an uneventful journey back to Geneva passed fairly quickly.
A quick visit to the pizza place in the station, and it was soon time to board and fly back to Liverpool.
So I really enjoyed my Early Season Tune up, the snow was great, the altitude and glacial skiing was tough at times but enjoyable.
Two videos below, the first from the Saturday, where the feedback was to try and stand taller and earlier onto the new downhill ski…
my back is still in bits but I was oh so close to sticking that 180
you made some great progress since last year and really did well during the couple days in Tignes, longs looking real clean and a little polishing by Derek come Jan and you will be solid for the L2 longs.
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
kitenski, I don't know you definitely in better focus on the first video.....
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