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Monthly Archives: March 2012

Verbier: race training

Posted on March 29, 2012 at 10:25 am

It’s race training day, and instructors Mike, Emma and Lee took the trainees for a day of giant slalom gate racing – a first for almost all the trainees.  Here’s Mike, who previously worked with the Scottish and British alpine race teams, talking the guys through what’s coming up. First up through the gates were [...]

Verbier: final phases of training

Posted on March 27, 2012 at 6:00 pm

With only two weeks of training before the big BASI Level 2 fortnight, training has upped to a new level of intensity.  Today the guys have being doing video analysis in the bumps:… It’s hard to say what top-level instructor, Sandy, is trying to explain here – so we’ll let the photo speak for itself… [...]

100% exam pass rate, record snow, in the Dive & Wild West and the 80′s

Posted on March 25, 2012 at 5:49 pm

This week, was exam week for the Banff Peak Leaders skiers and riders, a great experience …….. if a little bit stressful! 100% PASS RATE 100% PASS RATE 100% PASS RATE 100% PASS RATE ……. EVERYONE PASSED. Congratulations to all, the effort everyone has put into the 11 weeks of training has paid off ……. [...]

Powder, Sunshine and Helicopters

Posted on March 13, 2012 at 3:02 am

As the Peak Leaders Banff group left their hotel to find Banff Avenue covered in fresh snow the question was asked  “if it has snowed this much down here what will it be like up the hill?” Andy soon found out….. waist deep in powder on Standish   Billy’s smile says it all…… fresh perfect [...]

Verbier – freestyle day (no2)

Posted on March 12, 2012 at 8:51 am

The next day of freestyle rolled around, and what a sunny day it was.  There was a lot of fun to be had on the airbag jump (see the Peak Leaders Facebook page for the video). Plus there was a whole lot of jumps.  Roll down for some of the high (and the low) points.

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