Guten Tag,

Kicking Horse today for the 3x children’s and junior FIS group – 20cm’s overnight / 45cm’s + in the last couple of days…epic according to Jennifer, Chad, Trent and Jennifer – Louis Muhlen takes ‘stack of the day honors’ w. a massive stack in one of the back bowl...one of his skis hung up in a cliff band in the stack...we are hopeful that patrol were able to repel in this afternoon to retrieve it...fingers crossed.  Awesome effort from all today - particularly the C1 & C2 girls...very well done - ready for anything and adapting to new challenges...!

GS at Nakiska for senior FIS group – 8x timed runs + technical prep for AM session – we were lucky enough to train w. John Kucera today (we’ll train w. John again tomorrow in GS - & next week in Super G / GS) – Chri a little more than 2 seconds behind … good game plan in place to trim down the margin for tomorrow – Iain not far off Chri, figuring a few things out in GS.  First full volume day for Djoeke today (yahoo) after a niggling rib injury – Alia out for the morning w. knee pain, good technical skiing in the afternoon – rock solid from Hamish today in GS…looking forward to a fast day tomorrow – technical skiing in the afternoon w. focus on powerful hip (square and tall) at the top of the turn to drive speed down through the arc – playing around w. holding onto the turn longer in GS (long in the arc – short in the transition)

Check out the pics and video below from today’s GS sessions at Nakiska – pics from Kicking Horse to follow

Over and out for now

Jennifer, Chad, Trent, Brett & Jeff

Mapmaker - SG on looker's left - our GS on the right

Geiger, Christian - AUS National Team / Hotham

Molnar, Hamish - Hotham

John Kucera - Canadian National Team / World Cup Winner / World Champion

McFie, Iain - AUS National Jr Team / Hotham

Molnar, Hamish - Hotham



Hoedemaker, Djoeke - AUS National Jr Team / Hotham



Geiger, Christian - AUS National Team / Hotham



Moore, Alia - AUS National Jr Team / Hotham



Books, Zahli - sporting her new 'goggoooos'



Balance session




Balance session





Da boyz...ESD spin





New gym almost ready...artwork by Karina McKenzie





Ola from temperate Canmore - pretty good day today - “unreal” and “awesome” appeared to be the two most commonly used words to describe the day at Lake Louise – new snow, good weather, lots of bumps and loads of challenging terrain – by all accounts, the crew was on fire today…they head off to Kicking Horse tomorrow for another day of all mountain skills and all mountain challenge.

For the Nakiska group - 2x sessions of SL training on Whoop Up (awesome terrain) followed by 6x runs of GS drills - pillar strength & stability session for the rehab group (Alia & Djoeke) and power lift for the boys - looking forward to a big day tomorrow – full length GS on Mapmaker w. John Kucera and Manny Osborne Paradis from the Canadian Men’s team – both are world cup winners, Johnny World Champion in DH 2009 – good opportunity to set up the timing and see where we’re at vs the big boys…the dudes are excited for tomorrow   

Check out the highlight pics & video below

Over and out for now 

Jennifer, Chad, Trent, Brett & Booker 

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McFie - SL training 




Djoeke & Alia - balance / stability session

Iain - SL drills

Geiger, Christian - SL on Whoop Up

The new Head boots are good...very good

Geiger, Christian

McFie on the bench

Hamish - med ball push ups w. feet on bosu