What this Week Brings – w/c 30th September 2013

Hoping for a slower week after last weeks ski race and school sport fixtures.

Need to get on with my School Science Space project this week !

Monday brings a School Colts fixture against Bedford Modern School and TGIS Ski Club.

UPDATE: We lost 34:7, but some great improvements and hopefully the extra training ountil our next match it will all click.  School Report here.

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Tuesday is SMK Ski Training.

Thursday is GHFC football training.

Saturday I am taking part int the Slide2Sochi promotion event at SnoZone MK.  This is to promote Sochie and also to promote and encourage Ski and Boarding through  Go Ski Go Board taster sessions  www.goskigoboard.org.uk

Hopefully I will get a chance to race gates against Sir Steve Redgrave, Graham Bell and Tim Fawke of SSE.

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29th September 2013 – ERSA Championship – Snow Centre @ Hemel

Back down to earth with a bump, through either compliancy or tiredness (after a week of three ski races and two school rugby matches) ?  But not a great race meet for me!

ERSA Slalom, two runs with a combined time to count – Run 1 amazing fast run, but straddled a gate so DSQ, Run 2, with nothing to loose really went for a fast time – Face plant into the snow !

Well done to Alex from Norfolk (1st), Kayne (2nd) and Thomas (3rd) from Hemel.

Slalom Results link here

Again, thanks to all who organised and the volunteers (thank goodness that Dad didn’t have to commentate today ! couldn’t stand listening to him all day !)

SnowSports GBR & Atomic Indoor Race Series U10 Champion

It’s Official – I am the UNDER 10 SNOWSPORT GBR & ATOMIC INDOOR RACE SERIES CHAMPION !

I cant’ believe it, this is amazing, in my first year of indoor ski racing and I won the SnowSports GBR Indoor Race Series for the Under 10 Age Category.  I collected the Perpetual Trophy, a trophy to keep and a gift voucher from sponsors Atomic and Ski Bartlett on Saturday from SnowSports England CEO Tim Fawkes after the race at the Chill Factore in Manchester.

Out of the six races around the indoor courses around country, I ended up with three 1st Places, one 2nd Place, one 3rd Place and one race not attended.  My SMK team mate Kayne came 2nd overall, so well done Kayne and congratulations to George with 3rd!

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SnowSports GBR 2013 Indoor Series U10 Results

In 2014 I move up on the Indoor Series to the Under 12 age group, so the races will be harder, but as I told my Dad on Saturday, “my aim is to give back this U10 Trophy this time next year and collect the U12 one !

Hopefully Kayne will be pushing for the U10 next year !

Thanks to SMK team and coaches and Gravity Snowsports (Glen and Ben) for their consistent improvement in my ski training, technique and fitness, my School for their ever increasing support, Snowsports GBR for introducing a new U10 perpetual U10 Trophy, and Atomic & Ski Bartlett for sponsoring the race Series and the gift voucher, all the parents and volunteers who make the races happen and to my Mum and (the amazing ski prep’ing) Dad for helping me win this Series !

BRING ON 2014 !

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28th September 2013 – Snowsports England British Indoor Championships @ Chill Factore Manchester

Early start (5:00am) to travel up to Manchester this morning, and enjoyed having my gluten free cornflakes at 80mph ! whilst surrounded by my duvet ! Breakfast in Bed I called it.

The SnowSport England race today is the last SnowSport Indoor Race of the 2013 series.

SSE races for U10’s are around stubbies and the fastest of the two runs.

Run 1 I went for it and missed a gate on the tight section.

Run 2, after learning where I went wrong in Run 1 I approached the run in a more calculated way and nailed a winning time of 16.02 seconds, with Kayne running into 2nd Place with a Run 2 time of 16.80, and Lucas from Lions in 3rd with a time of 16.99 seconds.

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Racer-Ready Magazine Report link is here

23rd September 2013 – BISS Indoor Championships at Hemel

The Grove entered is first major competition, the British Independent Schools Ski Racing Championship (BISS) held at The Snow Centre, Hemel Hempstead.  The U10, U12 and U14 categories attracted over 120 competitors representing schools from the South Coast to Colwyn Bay.

For three of The Grove team members, Michael Eddelston, Daniel Camish and Charlotte Ingram, representing the U12’s, this was their first experience of major slalom competition.  Charlotte overcame nerves following a fall on her first run to record a very respectable 18.95 sec time on her second run, whilst Daniel demonstrated great consistency with his first and second recorded times.  Michael defied convention improving his second run time by 0.58 sec.

I came 1st in the U10’s Boys with runs of 12.86 and 13.06 seconds, and an amazing 9th overall in the competition, which was dominated by U14’s ! (his time was on 0.39 seconds from a first place).

The Grove came a very respectable Joint 11th (with Bedford Modern) out of 25 Pre-Prep and Junior Prep Schools.

Emily Sarsfield, British No. 1 Ski Cross, presented the awards.  Good luck Emily, one of our Sochi hopefuls !DSCF1096

http://www.emilysarsfield.com/emilyskicross/home.html

Well done to the whole team, keep up the great work !

School Website Report

BISS results now posted on their website

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Under 10’s Ranking below.

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Overall Mens Result (Under 14, Under 12 and Under 10) below.

 

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Schools Ranking below.

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Zac and Daniel on Course inspection.

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Charlotte, Michael and Daniel after their first run !

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What this Week Brings – w/c 23rd September 2013

Busy week coming up;

Monday BISS (British Independent Schools Ski) Indoor Race at Hemel, The Grove has entered a team, comprising of Michael, Charlotte, Daniel and Zac.

UPDATE: Team did really well, I got a 1st in U10 an 9th Overall 

Monday afternoon, picked as scrum half again for The Grove Colts A team, and we are playing at home against Quinton House.

UPDATE: Colts played a hard match against Quinton House, which ended in a well deserved draw – team needs to work on pressure and rucks !

Tuesday, back to SMK for U10/U12 training session.

Wednesday is rugby again, but playing for the Junior Colts v Akeley Wood away.

UPDATE: Junior Colts, we lost to Akeley Wood

And then over the weekend, the Snowsports England British Championships at the Snow Factore in Manchester and then on Sunday, Part 2 Indoor Snow of the ERSA double header at Hemel.

UPDATE: Snowsports England British Indoor Championships on Saturday, Run 1 missed gate Run 2 winning time for Under 10’s (well done Kayne for 2nd place)

UPDATE: ERSA Championships on Sunday, Run 1 straddle gate whilst posting a great time so DQ, Run 2 really went for it as nothing to lose but fell on lower gate – bad day really (well done Kayne for 2nd place)

So a very busy week !! Busy for Dad also having to prep skis ! and he also prep’d Kaynes for Sunday ! is that why Kayne did so well !

NEW Ski’s Have Arrived !!

Massive surprise when I came home from school today ! Thanks Mum and Dad !

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Hard rugby match at school this afternoon. Playing in Under 11 Colts, so playing up a year, as Scrum half, against Akeley Wood U11 A Team for one half and B Team for second half. As it was our first match, we lost against a well drilled A Team by 7 converted tries. Second half, we ran in 5 unconverted tries to Zil.

Great second half performance from our team. Dad says I played well, great tackling and pressure, played well at scrum half with a mix of runs from scrum, pass outs and a couple of great kicks, oh and a Try.

School match report

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What this Week Brings – w/c 9th September 2013

Due to the SnoZone having freezing issues, No Gravity session, but Tuesday was a SMK Training session.  Good to get back on my skis again !

On Saturday I took part in a Gravity Boot Camp, with a skills session followed by freestyle ski session.  With Strength and conditioning in the afternoon – a great day !

Good news this week at school, as picked for the School Under 11 Rugby Colts team as Scrum Half !  First match next week !

Sunday rugby training at BRUFC was a great session, with the coaches introducing scrums.

What This Week Brings – w/c 2nd September 2013

Wind down week before school starts again.

We played our first Division 2 Football match against last Saturdays U10 Tournament Winners, Woburn Lions Whirlwinds.  What we thought was going to be a tough match turned into a storming 6:1 win.  http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/greathorwood/j/match-centre-89370/0-2041783

After a clean sheet in goal for the first half, I  managed to weave through Woburn’s defence and score a great goal.

Sunday morning Rugby training was a good session.

No skiing this week, just having a rest.

 

 

What This Week Brings – w/c 26th August 2013

Sorry playing catch up !

Monday was the last day of the Gravity Weekend Boot Camp at Landgraaf.  It has been a great weekend of ski race training, thank you Glen and Ben !

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The rest of the week we went to Brussels and Neiupoort on the Belgium coast, and also spent my birthday on the beach !

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We also visited a few of the World War 1 Commonwealth Graves and also a German Cemetery, where over 60,000 German soldiers are buried – all very sad.

We also visited, Diksmuide in Belgium, where they have restored a WW1 trench, which was known as the Trench of Death.  Later we stopped at the Essex Farm Cemetery, which is also the site of a field hospital where the Canadian John McCrae worked as a  surgeon.  McCrae is famous for his poem In Flanders Fields, which related the Poppy to the remembrance of WW1.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Flanders_Fields

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On the Saturday, our football team GHRC U10’s played in the GHFC Tournament, think we won 2, drew 3 and lost 2.