Summer Update
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After being away training for the past 4 months, it’s good to be back home with my family and friends!
Being a full-time athlete may sound like the ideal lifestyle, jet setting around the world, but it’s nothing like a ski holiday – which is what most people relate to when I tell them what I do! Every year the technical standards of World Cup moguls skiing gets taken to a new level, the game moves on and I have to arrive at the beginning of the winter competition season in peak condition, injury free, and skiing at a new ‘personal best’ level. It takes a lot of planning, coordination and hard, hard work!
My coaches and I have been based in the USA since May working on taking a couple of seconds off my run. Attacking the rut lines at high altitude on the Mount Hood Glacier (Oregon) – means you’ve got to be fit before you arrive. We commute back and forth to Steamboat to train on water ramps to work on airs. Landing into the ice cold melt-water lake at Steamboat takes your breath away at first but you soon get warm climbing back up to the top of the ramp with skis on your shoulder, boots sloshing full with water and wearing a dry suit! My ‘Backflip-X’ is higher, meaner and floating nicely. With trampoline sessions to build ‘aerial’ skills and working out in the gym, weightlifting, aerobic exercises and lots of cross training, the hard work is really paying off.
Australia throughout August was the perfect training venue as we ski shoulder to shoulder with other National teams on a full moguls course in winter snow conditions. It’s a great chance to put together the technical skiing element with two airs and get a glimpse of coming seasons competition package.
I head out again to the USA in October as soon as the snow starts to fall in Colorado but in the meantime, with everything done that we needed to get done, it is perfect timing to head back to the UK for a well-earned break.!
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