Great comments from his Coach Ben !

So after a reasonable Giant Slalom race from bib 57, I was looking forward to today’s Slalom race.  With flipped bibs I would be starting 8th out of 65, but with a mid day start for the U12, the snow would be soft and a little slushy.  Optimistically I wanted a top 10 overall finish and maybe a top 5 in year of birth.

Last minute advice from Tori !

Run 1 was flawless, great stability and body positioning, and super fast.  Run 1 time of 37.67seconds put me in third behind Bib 24 (37.25 and yesterday’s winner) and Bib 59 (37.62).

Run 2, so I was now in 3rd position, and nothing to loose so time to pull out that amazing run to see if I could retain 3rd or maybe even move up the podium.

Run 2 was one of my smoothest and I managed to knock 0.20 seconds off my first run time, where most others struggled to make inroads in to their first run times.

So Run 2 time moved me above Bib 59 into 2nd place, just had to stand and watch 56 other racers complete their Run 2.  Bib 24 smashed his Run 1 time to 35.81, but hey he is in the older year !

The wait for everyone to finishing, including a re-run for Bib 8, was a nightmare, but nobody could beat my 2nd place time 37.45 seconds. A 2nd Place Podium !!!!

        Let the on slope celebrations start !!!

Podiums from SkiMK Race Team Racers today (Kayne 1st Slalom U10, Rob 2nd GS)

Thanks for the video Byron

Great picture, thanks Neil at Racer Ready

Looked forward to today, not raced in GS race for some time and with a very strong field of 65 from UK and European based British Schools, it means a chance to see how I have developed in this discipline.  GS race was to be 3 runs with the combined best two to count.

Drawn bib 57, so today will be skiing in the ruts, and run 3 will be difficult.  Realistic expectations where a top 20 overall and a high position in my Year of Birth 2004.

So Run 1, completed with fairly fast, for me, time of 34.32, which rough guess placed me in 12th overall, so very happy.

Run 2 was only just a little slower at 34.81, so with two recorded times Run 3 was the one to “gun it down”.

Run 3, according to the lady writing up the scores “was fast” but unfortunately, an earlier runner pulled the start wand cables out and no time was recorded !

So had to re-run, and clipped a gate and lost a ski !, tried to hold it and ski down on one ski but couldn’t control the speed and fell !, so DNF ! (very annoyed but thats ski racing!)

Matt Birch captures a couple of photos with one ski http://mattbirchpictures.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/9-03-2015-minis-gs-under-12-boys-run-1/G0000DmCTRhps0i4/I0000EIdoKQkr9fE/C0000iD9YieaQ1cU

http://mattbirchpictures.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/9-03-2015-minis-gs-under-12-boys-run-1/G0000DmCTRhps0i4/I0000EIdoKQkr9fE/C0000iD9YieaQ1cU

So ended up 16th overall, and 8th in my Year of Birth (2004). So great 3 runs (shame about run 3 not being timed).

Need to work on my Giant Slalom this coming year as want a podium place next year !

More Slalom training today.  Great to ski with Tori, Kayne, Oscar and Oscar !

Got my Equity InterSchools 2015 Les Houches Hoddie !

So what do you buy the greatest day in the world, why, a model of me !

 Great to spend some time with Dad on the slopes ! (When he can keep up !)

Also big thanks to Byron and Kayne for getting Dad a birthday cake !

Travelled over to our favourite hotel in Les Houches, the Auberge.  The owners are so friendly and welcoming.  Plus they have a ski prep room, the beds are comfy and it has a bar for my Dad !

Saturday was a mixture of Giant Slalom and Slalom training with Glen, Ben and Tori from Gravity.

Great day getting used to the slushy snow conditions.

After winning last years U10 BISS (and finishing 8th overall U14,U12&U10) I wanted to show my new school that I could perform at first year U12 level.  What was really encouraging after a hard indoor season, is that I managed to come 3rd overall (U14,U12&U10) and a great result behind an on-fire Joseph, to finish 2nd in U12 !  (also finished with nearly a 1second difference to the nearest 2004 U12).

Great to have a really fast run 2 !

The individual results can be found here.

As a team of 1 from Beachborough, I was never in with a shout in the team event, but still managed to finish joint 11th out of 24 mixed prep school teams !

Big thanks to BISS, Impulse and the Hemel/Ersa guys for organising.