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Monthly Archives: January 2008

The skidoo

Posted on January 30, 2008 at 7:36 pm

The week got of to a good start with snow over the weekend, and it hasn’t really stopped since. The temperature, however, kept falling and so to some relief the mountain was closed on Monday, as it was too cold for the gondola to start. This meant that we had a free day, so some [...]

More BASI preparations

Posted on January 30, 2008 at 10:05 am

The week started with both groups not quite knowing what was to be expected of us in the coming days of the BASI level 1 course. The first day was quite an information overload with the snowboarders BASI trainer Simon going through all the terms and phrases we would need to know and understand for [...]

January 2008

Posted on January 28, 2008 at 9:36 pm

Week 1 of our BASI Level 2. We were all pretty nervous at the thought of the next 2 weeks. We met Steve Ricketts our trainer, who seemed really nice, but told us the next 2 weeks not a holiday…shame as Mardi Gras was getting into full swing in town! 1st week was how to improve [...]

BASI preparations

Posted on January 28, 2008 at 9:59 am

The weather has been on our side this week, Sun every day. This allows the skiers to work on carving & short turns. Lots of drills & criticism. Some of which make us look like complete pillocks, (i.e. tying ski poles around your waist). Not the most stylish way to ski I must say. The [...]

CASI level 1 exams

Posted on January 24, 2008 at 7:22 pm

The first few weeks out in Banff have been a massive learning curve for all of us, especially for the skiers who are still attempting to snow plough. The intensive training from our instructors is definately paying off as we are losing our bad habits and learning to ski/board efficiently on all kinds of terrain. [...]

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