SNOW CLUB INFORMATION
The Snow Club The Snow Club was originally formed to help regional racers, who normally skied and raced on plastic slopes in this country, to train and race on snow with coaches they knew. The Snow Club aims to promote and support the skier’s home club. This means the racer competes for their home club when racing on snow with the Snow Club as their 2nd club. The club works with qualified coaches and is concerned to look after ‘the new racer’ as well as FIS license holders. Although a small club, with relatively few members, we have been in existence since 1990, and have had a very distinguished start with a number of British and English champions. For 3 years, we were holders of the 3rd best placed BARSC club at the BARSC championships which is a tremendous achievement considering that we are one of the smaller clubs. ‘Our’ children have been invited to compete abroad as members of the British Children’s squad. Our members are regularly invited to be members of the English Alpine Squad. Currently there are racers who are either current or past members of The Snow Club in the English Alpine Squad. The Snow Club does not just focus on its top performers but also takes a lot of time and care over preparing the newcomer to snow racing. It is a central part of our training to instill good technical foundations in our skiers. Obviously, this makes the training camps beneficial to skiers just wishing to improve their general technique and we have skiers at every training camp who just do this. At each Summer Training Camp, The Club concentrates on the ‘younger’ age group with special development groups, designed to help the inexperienced racer while keeping the process fun. If requested, our Coaches will produce a written report for the home club Coaches in order to keep them informed of 'their' racers progress while away on snow. The Racer will need to tell us where to send the report. Should any Club Coach wish to attend a training camp, we would be very pleased for them to take part. Over the years, many of the region's Coaches have participated in running Snow Club Camps. We always encourage Clubs to join in. BASIC SNOW CLUB PROGRAMME INTRODUCTORY LEVEL: Young skiers entering into race training for the first time will do much of their initial work outside the poles. The younger skiers will ski mostly GS or enlarged slalom courses as an introduction but our main emphasis is on keeping it fun and working on the basic skills required in game and task formats. RELEVANT RACES: At this stage, we select the easier and more relaxed events (minis races and club races) DEVELOPMENT LEVEL: As the skier grows in experience, then it is necessary to run more slalom courses but the main technical thrust is still towards GS as this is the most technical discipline and we believe it builds the skill required for success in the other disciplines. Emphasis now is on checking fitness, technical elements and building speed safely. RELEVANT RACES: Most of the bass seeded races are now suitable and we try to select a full range such as the BARSC championships, British school girls invitation races, British school boy’s races, the British + English championships. INDEPENDENT RACER Many independent racers use our training facility and expertise to help to prepare them for individual events and also as part of a full training programme. As stated before, we also can help FIS standard racers with their individual race programme. SUMMER TRAINING CAMP 1 to 3 WEEKS Training will be for all standards and is arranged in small groups. You can stay with the group for one, two or three weeks. Skiing will take place in the morning with a full programme of sport, including jogging, in the afternoon. OCTOBER HALF TERM CAMP Training will again be for all standards in groups of similar skiing ability. This camp will get you ready for the races around Christmas and New Year. CHRISTMAS/NEW YEAR RACING CAMP Few days training before ONE OR TWO club races followed by the BARSC Championships. FEBRUARY HALF TERM TRANING CAMP A training camp for general skiing skill aimed at the young racers. EASTER TRAINING AND RACING CAMP This camp will look after 'our' racers before and during the British junior/children championships and the English alpine championships. BRITISH SCHOOL GIRLS/BOYS RACES - usually at the end of JANUARY/beginning of FEBRUARY We aim to have one team entered in each of these race series. RACING IN SCOTLAND When requested, one of our trainers will take racers up to Scotland for selected race weekends - (usually excellent for getting 'good' seed points). GENERAL INFORMATION IF WE CAN CONTACT YOU VIA E-MAIL, PLEASE LET US HAVE YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS. MEMBERSHIP runs from JULY to JUNE. ALL MEMBERS ARE ASKED TO SIGN A CODE OF CONDUCT and a MEDICAL CONSENT FORM. We have a representative on the BARSC executive, on ARC, alpine race committee, (part of the Snowsport England) and the BSSF events executive. Any information gathered will be circulated to all our members. If you would like any further information on the Snow Club, Please contact: Phil. |
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