Speed on Skates

This morning, SDSC traveled up to the Mount Mansfield parking lot for our last instructional session on skates. Today we focused on speed, starting with running form to again link all the different elements of B-A-S-E into thinking about speed. Then after working through proper tucking form, Danny set up multiple GS and SL courses for the kids to run. For those who haven't seen an SDSC skate session in full, it's pretty impressive. Today we had four lanes as if on the top of a glacier in France, with lanes to work on athletic stance, hopping, and then two full lanes for GS and SL.

Danny reiterated much of what we have been working on all week. Mainly four key elements of skiing and turn shape: identifying the transition, being balanced in the transition, rolling ankles to start the turn, and identifying the rise line. It was cool to see campers focus on those, and then look for more and more speed as they got comfortable. So much of ski racing (and SDSC) is about pushing our limits in a controlled way, and today was a perfect example of that mentality.

This afternoon we are back to Cady Hill for more singletrack mountain biking!