Seyhan Seyhan decided to join us this morning for a few hours of technical input. First of all I watched[…]
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Alistair–Off Piste
Today was about taking Alistair out of his comfort zone and leaving the realm of theory and exercises. Skiing is[…]
Read moreErsin – Off Piste / Centre of Mass
Snow in Le Fornet had been blasted by high winds and so it was never going to be easy to[…]
Read moreLeen Day 2 – Introducing Pivoting
On meeting Leen this morning she was clearly suffering from painful calf muscles – so the day began with a[…]
Read moreLeen Day 1–Beginner intro –to parallel skiing
Leen has had one previous experience on skis when at age 12 she was told to snowplough and left to[…]
Read moreAlistair Day 2 Into The Unknown!
Today’s session started off innocuously enough with a simple brief warm up run. My intention was to just do a[…]
Read moreFinn Day 4
Finn was following in the footsteps of his granduncle Andrea who is here this week. Andrea was the same age[…]
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Today Finn broke free from the nursery slopes and started to get some serious mileage under his belt. We warmed[…]
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Persistence with the ski hire shop eventually rewarded us with properly waxed skis for Finn. Thomas also decided it was[…]
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Ponte di Legno, Italy Yesterday evening we all arrived having driven through some miserable grey weather – but for Finn’s[…]
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