Half price pre-season tuition with Snoworks

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Just received an update from Snoworks.co.uk which offers half price tuition on their pre-season courses at Tignes. Details are:

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Yes, I received this email this morning too. I am very tempted by the all day technical training 4 - 11 November, but would want to keep costs right down. Anyone interested in sharing cost of car hire from Geneva and a self-catering apartment?

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pam w, if you do decide to self-cater, make sure you get an apartment fairly close to the hotel that Snoworks use for the evening feedback sessions and seminars. These are an important part of the week, as well as providing a good base for informal apres-ski with your fellow clients and instructors.

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rob@rar.org.uk, yes, I did a Snoworks course some years ago and would certainly want to be accessible for the evening sessions, but taking the package does make it all quite a bit more expensive.

Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.

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rob@rar.org.uk, I presume that cost is for 6 days training?

Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...

BernardC, no, five days @ three hours per day. Arrive Saturday, Sunday is free skiing to get warmed up, instruction Monday-Friday.

After all it is free

BernardC, the email from Snoworks says that the 4 - 11 November technical training is all day. 5 days, all day, so £150 is good value. That is what attracted me to it, as Tignes in November is likely to have fairly limited skiing available and be fairly grotty generally; muck and rubble, I suspect. But for technical exercises you really only need a few slopes and if snow conditions are poor, it's even better practice. Put like that, why do I want to do it??????????? Puzzled

pam w, I'm sorely tempted, although some might wonder why I would need it Toofy Grin

The other question I have to ask myself is, 'Do I want to live....?' My wife has given me leave to do most of the season. I may very well place myself in great peril by the mere mentioning of this.... Toofy Grin

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BernardC, I'm in Tignes for the race camp with Snoworks 18-25 November (sadly at full price, rather than discounted). I've done it before and it's a great way to get the season off to an early start. As Pam said, not so good for free skiing, but great if you're just focusing on technique. Go on, you know you want to...

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rob@rar, having just realised I'm probably not going to be able to make the EoSB next year after all (it will almost certainly clash with the first race of the LSERSA season), and after a chat with Emma this morning, I've decided to use the holiday I'd reserved for that for the half-price race training week 11-18 Nov. Sounds like I got the last place on it - unless they decide to add another group. I was originally thinking of going the following week and hooking up with you again, but £120 discount was too good too pass up. Also got to use my EasyJet discount (due to them screwing us about on the PSB flight) to get there. If only I'd got my posterior in gear a day earlier I'd have saved another £22 on the airfare too Sad

. Shame to miss you - but maybe some other time.

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GrahamN, Excellent, I'm sure you'll have a fun week. Two pre-season trips is quite keen! Fingers crossed for hard and icy conditions for you on the Grand Motte Wink

We're doing the race training course 18-25th November. We paid full whack for it, but we still think it is likely to be a good week. I'm a relatively new skier (first ski trip was last year, 5 weeks in total), although my husband skis well and has done racing before. I feel I need the race training to get quick enough to keep up with him. He has skied with Snoworks before and thinks they are absolutely brilliant, so, rocks, rubble, ice or not, I'm still looking forward to it.

You know it makes sense.

Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:

docsquid, I'm also on that course. Are you staying in the Hotel Curling or have you made your own accommodation arrangements?

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rob@rar, yes, we're in the Hotel Curling. I feel rather nervous as I'm not an exalted or expert skier like many of the people seem to be here. My main aim of the week is to stay the same distance behind my husband, who is also doing the course, as I am at present and not to let the gap grow! I'll be happy if I get down one set of gates in the whole week without skiing out.

I only had my first ski trip last year (Feb 2005), and although I've done five weeks, with quite a few private lessons from Gareth Roberts, and made good progress, I still feel like a beginner. I have done a lot of ice skating (figure skating) in the past, which might explain some of my progress. Gareth and Brian (the BASI I and race trainer at the Tamworth Snowdome), I'm well up to the course and am definitely a Level IV skier. I know it will improve my technique enormously, and provided I'm not thrown off the course for being just too slow and holding everybody up, then I'll get a lot out of it. I've been having sessions with Brian practising starts, skating downhill, skiing in a tuck position and lots of other edge control exercises, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed. If I get thrown off the course, I'll still enjoy skiing and meeting with everybody whatever.

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There were a wide range of abilities on the same week last season, with four 'race' classes and one or two general performance classes so I'm sure you'll find a level that you're happy with. I also felt quite intimidated prior to doing this course for the first time, but there's no need to be nervous at all. I can't imagine there's any chance you can get thrown off the course - it's just a question of getting through the gates at your own speed, with feedback from whoever is your instructor. I'm not sure of the instructor line-up for that week, but Gareth might be one of the guys (he took a couple of the groups last year).

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rob@rar, thank you for that. Makes me feel a lot less nervous. I'd like to be in Gareth's group, but Mr DS says he thinks it would be better if I now had a different instructor. I honestly can't wait to get skiing again. Living in Tamworth means I can ski all through the Summer, but it's not the same...!

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docsquid, all the instructors are very good, so it doesn't really matter who you end up with. Most of the instructors stay in in the same hotel, so if Gareth is teaching that week you'll get to say hello even if you're not in his group.

Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.

docsquid, Do I know you? Were you on a recent "on the edge" course with Brian? wink

Or do you ski weds nights?

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veeeight, no, I don't think so. We did a two hour private lesson with Brian a couple of weeks ago, but I/we usually ski on Wed, Thur or Fri mornings. I was at the Snowdome this morning, trying to practice the things he taught me!

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