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