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A week with Graham Bell

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Just back from a week in Cervinia Italy doing some GS training, great snow and fantastic coaching from a 5 times Olympian

Photos and Blog here (sorry cant be bothered to upload all the photos here snowHead

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looks like fun. out of interest what was the rough cost of something like that?
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nice write-up!
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ansta1, surprisingly good value, I shouldnt say exact price as it was a subsidised course run by a ski school I had done some work for in the past. They are looking to get into the pre season training market and put together a real good package. If they decide to run it for the general public next year I will put up prices.

Pre season training is generally pretty cheap with lower cost accommodation and lift passes off setting the cost of the coaching.
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very cool Cool

Some great shapes there skimottaret,

Amazing how much edge-angle and body angulation the pros get but you're not far behind.

Saw myself on video through a race course last year and OMG I looked so static and upright Embarassed
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good write up! Can you share the stretching exercise you did please??? Trying to think of someone more ski related ones for me to do !!
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looks like a fantastic event and mighty jealous Smile
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very cool and great pictures.

Was this from a chairlift? or are you a lilliputlian?

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kitenski, didnt jot them down but the usual suspects. we did do lots of partner stretches on the hamstrings and adductors which worked a treat. also a fair bit on piriformus and IT band
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shoogly, Laughing one of the guys who after snapping a ski was a bit gun shy and took photos on race day from a ridge below the course,

http://www.insideoutskiing.com/news/blog_files/training_lane.jpg

did a great job with an SLR and got 30 or so frames on that run.. Have some video to go through as well and may put up some of the faster guys.
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Nice write up. So after a week's training (or more did you do a Snoworks one last year?) how far off the pace were you? Close enough to start eyeing up the Lycra and cooking up special blends of wax?

Didn't like the look of the hole above the blue gate, that would definitely have freaked me out.
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Didn't like the look of the hole above the blue gate, that would definitely have freaked me out.
Exactly - designed to freak you out and flip you up. Hateful to have holes on the line.
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... or are you a lilliputlian?
Laughing Excellent - I like that.
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Great write up. The pics are very illuminating.

Reason behind doing the course please?

Am I correct in summarising that Bell advocates pivotting both skis for directional change prior to setting the edge and laying down the carved, railroad tracks?
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Nice write up, so if you were in a cat suit you would have nailed it then wink

Hope you have a great season.
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Mike Pow wrote:
Am I correct in summarising that Bell advocates pivotting both skis for directional change prior to setting the edge and laying down the carved, railroad tracks?
Only if the gate is tight and you need to adjust the line in to it by creating a big steering angle.
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skimottaret, That looked like an excellent experience. Whenever I get near a gate I seem to return to a snow plough. One day I'll get myself on a GS clinic like that one.
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fatbob, freaked everyone out... on one run the first three guys in crashed out there and one quite badly which i have on tape and will try to get up next week. The canny veteran Brian our 69 year old blitzed it and i followed his line and stayed in as well... Your right i did do a week last year but we had loads of snow that week and very deep ruts over glacial ice and only got maybe 8 runs in gates all week. i crashed out a couple times and got winded and my bell rung so didnt really feel i made much progress, also didnt get timing out as weathered off the last day..

I was consistently within 1/100's of a girl who has taken it several times over the last two years and been close on a few occasions (girls get +6% or about 3 to 3 1/2 secs typically) and had 3 weeks training prior to the week i was on and hung tight with the other ET guys who were new to the game but am nowhere near the guys at the level...

Mike Pow, just wanted a toe in the water type of training course rather than a full blown 4 -6 week ET camp to get a feel for where i am at if it is worth doing more training. As Rob said it was a tactical move and one he felt most ET candidates havent mastered and it costs them time in very offset courses that cannot be "carved" the whole way..
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Thanks for the clarification guys
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Mike Pow,
Watch the WC racers doing it too because of the big course offsets
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Found this very interesting as Annie Black and Bob Barnes at Keystone, Colorado were advocating this tactic when I was training for my PSIA Level 3 certification the 2005/06 season.
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skimottaret, enjoyed the report. Some friends of mine went heliskiing with Simone in Monterosa and apparently he can speed ski powder quite impressively as well....
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BobinCH, was he on 238 skis wink that would be a site to see ! I am sure he is pretty handy off piste as well as on... In the few training runs i saw him he must have been doing 70 or 80mph
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kitenski, just remembered that i have some stretches on my website scroll down to bottom of this page for a pdf on ski stretches
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good write up! Can you share the stretching exercise you did please??? Trying to think of someone more ski related ones for me to do !!
There are some good stretches on the Solutions4Feet website too.
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Great blog and pics....some of us can only dream Laughing
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I am going to regret posting this video, not my best run but ...


Coach Says FAT IS FAST
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Way out of my league - very cool Very Happy
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skimottaret, I think he called you fat Wink
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Nice! Uber jealous!
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great write up!
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tiffin, Laughing
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tiffin, ahh but i was redeemed in this training run when we were working on quick Cross Over Transitions early in the turn wink

http://vimeo.com/34556756
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I think you could go faster is you stopped waving to your Mum wink
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Mike Pow, yeah the arm waiving looks a bit weird but i think i was doing it to protect myself, got really smashed up on my right side and had a bit of a dead right arm..

http://www.insideoutskiing.com/news/blog_files/tim_scott_bruises.jpg
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my mates kid put up a video of race day and the first three guys in all had fun little episodes (the guy at :12 is a handy skier and took a very nice whack)... off for more torture in a few weeks..

https://vimeo.com/channels/gstraining


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skimottaret, great report!
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Fabulous report skimottaret snowHead

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It was inspirational to see one of our lot Brian (on the left), blast it through the course. He was our top gun and recorded the best time form our group. Turns out he is 69 years old and been racing for 50 years…


Shocked fair play!

I'm quite envious, really. Am I right in thinking you guys run race training courses out on resort? Would love to have a go at some proper training before it gets too late! Though if Brian is anything to go by, there may be more time than I thought Laughing
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