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Poppy and Martha day 4

Double hot chocolate stops today – thanks to a blizzard and significant drop in temperature. At least the snow wasn’t[…]

Another difficult start to the day with ultra sticky snow – but nothing a hot chocolate couldn’t sort out! Poppy[…]

Warm temperatures turned the fresh snow incredibly sticky – too sticky for little children to have enough weight for the[…]

Timing (Skating)The fundamental timing of down/up movements in skiing is based on skating. Take a motorbike into a high speed[…]

Video before working on dynamics… Everyone was transferring weight to the outside ski and pushing either one ski or two[…]

Harrison was having a hard time yesterday, struggling to adapt and make changes. Instead of giving in to despair he[…]

Eilidh’s Daily Word of Wisdom: “The brain needs legs to move!” (We’ll get back to that later!) SlalomHarrison: 18.99 seconds[…]

Warning: more than one of my young students have ended up at university studying astrophysics – it seems possibly to[…]

Eilidh, Alex and Harrison had waited two years to ski so I decided to ski them rather than subject them[…]

The second video shows a stable skier using dynamics. This was filmed before we worked on arm carriage and pole[…]