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Hi all,
I've heard some people do snowdome racing training e.g. some universities. Is this a reasonable form of training (not ideal but does it help?) I've never been to a snowdome before. I learned at slopes and my (perhaps biased) experience with people coming from a snowdome background is that their skills suck (in the mountain). So with that in mind how much specialist training can be leveraged from a snowdome? would you rather, instead of going once a week to snowdome for all "off-season", have an intensive summer week at a glacier? (assuming these two options are exclusive for the sake of argument).
thanks,
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A snowdome will never replace a mountain...but there are no mountains in London. Training weekly on a dryslope or in a dome, i.e. organised training not just skiing -- will improve your skiing no end. As you can keep training year-round the improvement would be much greater than a single week on a glacier.
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, fitness training or race training? I assume you mean race training? I'd imagine a dome is better than nothing...
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So Dave Ryding has made WC podiums and regular top 10s on the back of training and racing almost exclusively on dryslope in his early career. Snowdomes are just fine for something specifically focused like race drills.
People who've only ever learnt and skied on indoor slope can be exposed on a real mountain because i) it is way bigger and ii) far more variable terrain and conditions but it doesn't mean something like a race programme indoors is a waste of time.
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I coached 100's of under 12's and at least a half dozen kids that trained regularly in the snow domes in our programmes went on to become national team level skiers. The bulk of their training in the early years was in snow domes and dry slopes.
Focused and periodised training works in the domes , not sure why someones skills would suck in the mountains..
Domes supplement alpine training, similar to how an hour on a golf driving range isn't the same as an afternoon of on the course but both are valuable..
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