SL training on highline

Early Morning photo from the top of the mountain

Ktown Showdown

Our K-town showdown competition series kicked off last weekend. The weather was great and the setup was great. The kids all worked very hard. Will Stellar took 2nd and Joey took 3rd for the grom boys. Grace took 3rd in the girls open division.

USASA GS at Bromley

Sam H. racing to 3rd Place
Rookie Nikki S. racing to 3rd place

Kamran G. racing to 3rd place
(3 was the magic number today!)

Conner P. finishing strong!

Alex S. cranking a toe turn

Kamran from the start

Sam H. arcing it

Conner pulling out of turn 1

Conner in the start

Saturday 12/18/2010 was KWSC/KMS Snwoboard Team's first USASA event of the season. The Giant Slalom (GS) was a double header- 2 races in the same day with both races' results counting towards qualifying for USASA Nationals.

The first course was technically challenging with 2 delays/bananas and fast finish. The second course was more staright forward and easy to read with no surpirses. The weather for the races was reasonably warm at 32 degrees with partial cloud cover at the start and sunny skies at the finish.

KWSC/KMS rider Sam Hayden raced past most other riders in his age group, finishing third place in both races despite a fall in run 2 of the second race! Way to go Sam!! Sam beat several riders in hard boots racing on his freestyle setup.

KWSC/KMS rookie Nikki Sardelli also scored 3rd place in both races!

Kamran Gossieaux placed 3rd and 4th in the races in the extremely competitive Youth 14-15 division on soft boots as well. Alex Sheppard nailed down 6th and 7th places and KMS Athlete Conner Phillips landed in 8th place for both races.

We're very proud of our racers!! Great job all. One more GS on the schedule, and we've got plenty of video from this past weekends race (Thanks Jason Hayden) to use for training!!

-KC

USASA GS at Bromley

Alex S, Conner P, Sam H third place, Nikki S third place and Kamran G third place. Great job everyone!

Today's training

At least what's left of it...

Powder!

We found it...it wasn't easy!

12/11 Weekend Schedule

Hi Parents and Riders,

We've been getting great snow here at Killginton this week, along with continued cold weather and wind! Winter is finally here and that means more trails opening as well! In fact, we've had enough terrain open that we'll be able to run GS gates this weekend in preparation for the Bromley USASA GS on 12/18! Aditionally, The Reason early season park will be shutdown and the Mouse Run park is scheduled to open up Saturday.

This weekend's schedule:

Sat 12/11
8:30 Meet outback of the Club, warm up and split into groups
8:45- 11:00 Training: Park w/Evan, Gates w/KC, Freeride w/Gillian (will likely include gates)
11:00-12:00 Lunch
12:00 - 2:30 Training: Park w/Evan, Gates Video w/KC and Gillian

Sun 12/12
8:30 Meet outback of the Club, warm up and split into groups
8:45- 11:00 Training: Park w/Evan, Gates w/KC, Freestyle w/Gillian
11:00 - 12:00 Lunch
12:00 - 2:30 Training: Park w/ Evan, Freeride w/Gillian, Race Tuning w/KC

As usual, please email or call me if you have any questions or concerns.

-KC

Race Training

(Hmm...yeah, we can handle it)

With sub freezing temps and uncrowded trails, several KWSC Snowboard Team members decided today was the day to train for the upcoming GS race at Bromley on 12/18. We spent plenty of time on Snowdon repeating fundamentals on Mouse Run and Mouse Trap- especially "home" position, which helps riders use their whole bodies to rutn the board rather than just shoulders. Everyone did great after they remembered that getting better doesn't mean freeriding all the time- it takes hard work!

In the afternoon, a smaller group trained boardercross by passivelhy, then actively absorbing troughs and bumps, which ended in 3 runs on the very bumpy "high line". What a great day! These riders are going to do great in BX!!!!

Jesse K. charges off a strong heelside into the bumps on High Line

Abby and Nikki hammering the High Line

The BX Warriors

Next weekend, we run gates!

KC's group at rams head

We found uncrowded lift lines today, but it was much colder than I thought it would be!

(L to R above) Andrew, Jesse, Nikki, Madison, Abby, Alex and I had some fun working on pop and grabs doing straight airs, as well as making our 180's snappier.

Tomorrow will feature lots of work on turning and speed control through turn shape (rather than skidding) as we look towards the first USASA event of the season- the Giant Slalom at Bromley on Dec. 18th!

-KC

KMS Snowboard Conner at Breckenridge, CO

Preppin for Breck