When I started my blog I told myself that I was going to stay on top of them and therefore not end up having to post extremely long blogs to cover everything that I've been up to. However, the past couple of months have simply been way too busy, but at last I am catching up... :) BSA Summer Camp, Cervinia, 3 weeks, July-August 2017 It was an awesome camp despite bad weather (rain and thunderstorms) although unfortunately it meant we were only able to make it up the mountain for 8 days. The week started off by going back to the basics, working on drills 1 and 2 (snowplough and the 1000 step drill) especially focussing on the transition phase between turns as well as building up our skill base for next season. We then worked this into carved turns before adding in brushes for the transition phase, so the turns can be as wide as you want them to be, with the transition ideally through the brushes. This really helped me to work on my timing and is something I need to do more of moving forward into the season. The days off were spent constructively working on fitness (hiking, lifting, cannyoning, lifting, high ropes, lifting, games, tug of war...) and setting targets and goals for the season. I'll leave you with some of my favourite photos from the camp at the bottom of this post! Straight from Cervinia I went to the west coast of France with my parents for a week of surfing, biking and running along the beaches, and from there I returned to Zermatt with Summit Worldwide to film the kickstarter campaign for their new goggle the "Talisman" (meaning an object that is meant to bring good luck) which comes out in a couple of weeks time. We had an epic 3 days filming, skiing every day with awesome conditions and being able to hike around the Matterhorn every afternoon after skiing was amazing! On one day we got up at 5.30 for the 06.30am lift, skied until about 2, grabbed lunch then headed up another gondola (in shorts and tee-shirts) to film by a glacier lake with the Matterhorn looming in the background. The location was almost too good and we ended up staying there past the closing time for the lifts and so hiked for 2 hours down to get back to Zermatt for 9.30pm, to be rewarded with burger and chips in town! It was definitely one of the highlights of my summer and I can't wait to see the footage, the goggle definitely deserves such an amazing backdrop! At the end of August and start of September I was at BSA's summer camp at Norwich, leading up to the All England dry slope Championships. The camp was awesome and there were so many improvements over the week. A highlight of the week for me was the ski cross style course down the freestyle section of the slope, with more GS type turns over all the different terrain and a couple of jumps! I raced for the first time in 3 years on dryslope (except Esskia races) at the All England and it was so much fun! The Saturday was the All England Championships before the team event on Sunday, and I was chuffed to come 2nd overall and 1st U21... Emily Evans had better watch out because if I'm there next year... I'm coming for that title ;) I raced as part of BSA's team in the team event (Brad Morgan, Laurie Taylor, Jordan Fellows and I, with team manager Fraser Buchan, and house mum Rosy as assistant), and it reminded me why people love plastic, because the atmosphere was great! We ended up in a final with Pendle A, and after a false start in the second race of the final from Pendle A, we claimed the win! I was just thankful we weren't in a final with ravens A (my plastic club) because I used to race for them! Now that summer is pretty much over it is time to look to winter. I go back to snow next weekend, when I head to Stelvio glacier with Dave Morris and "Podium" for a week of training, before BSA's October camp from the 14th of October in Hintertux :) ... I can't wait!
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