This morning we woke to a much better day, and things brightened even more with the arrival of our featured coach, Martin Guyer. After coaching at Green Mountain Valley School for over 10 years, Martin is currently the US Ski and Snowboard Eastern Region Director of Development. As Martin put it, he basically works for the US Ski Team by coaching athletes before they are named to that team.
It is always such an honor to have Martin join us as he brings an incredible amount of experience, energy, and fun to all his sessions. Today he focused on balance, and emphasized over and over again the importance of keeping active play throughout our entire lives to improve our balance and coordination. In order to be both healthy people and high level athletes, he argues, we need to continue doing things like gymnastics, mountain biking, and playing on playgrounds. Those are the places where we learn naturally about balance, and activities that force us out of balance like playing on a jungle gym are extremely important for athlete development more broadly. 
As a result, the kids had tons of fun with exercises like throwing tennis balls back and for with a partner while standing on one leg, or finding everyone's spirit animal and moving as if they were that animal, or a relay race where campers had to sprint forwards and backwards, do somersaults, log rolls, and skips.
Thanks so much to Martin for joining us! We are very very lucky to have him.
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