Just finished up racing the FIS-Devo's and Waterville yesterday. I had a couple big mistakes here and their but I still ended up 18th and 20th. I scored a 90 and an 87 which would bring my average down into the 80's for NJR's (J2 National's qualifier) in February so that should be good. We as a team are switching gears from tech to speed as we head into 7 speed events over the next few weeks. The training has been good, cold weather has been brutal, I guess the only thing missing now is the snow. Good luck everyone!
.)) Kazui Kusumi
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Snow-FIA Report: First Race
Hello everyone and Happy Late New Year! It's very exciting to know that this weekend is going to be my first race and it's slalom! The last couple of weeks my coaches have been hammering me and my teammates on slalom by having us skip some of our classes on Wednesday, leaving half day on Thursday, and also on Friday. Even though it's so much fun, it's also hard because of all the homework.
After all this slalom training, finally today we got on our Super-G skis and ripped some turns at Park City. One of my coaches Keely Kelleher who was a Super-G ace helped us with our gliding turns, tucks, and teaching us the patience we must have in order to make the perfect turn. Also, my other coach was using a speed gun and clocking our miles per hour, which was a lot of fun because we were hitting a least 50 mph. The next half of the day we went to the Olympic Park and trained some slalom on this little hill. We got really great training in, with a ton of laps, and I skied really great and some break throughs.
I'm looking forward to the rest of the week of training and this weekend for the first slalom and kombi race at Snowbird. PRAY FOR SNOW!!!!!!
.)) Sofia Yubero
After all this slalom training, finally today we got on our Super-G skis and ripped some turns at Park City. One of my coaches Keely Kelleher who was a Super-G ace helped us with our gliding turns, tucks, and teaching us the patience we must have in order to make the perfect turn. Also, my other coach was using a speed gun and clocking our miles per hour, which was a lot of fun because we were hitting a least 50 mph. The next half of the day we went to the Olympic Park and trained some slalom on this little hill. We got really great training in, with a ton of laps, and I skied really great and some break throughs.
I'm looking forward to the rest of the week of training and this weekend for the first slalom and kombi race at Snowbird. PRAY FOR SNOW!!!!!!
.)) Sofia Yubero
Still no snow.... But the training goes on!
Here with an update from Park City. It was in the 50s all of last week so we lost a lot of snow but just yesterday we received three inches. Although it just meant more slip runs to push it off, no one was ready to complain. The granular man made snow and surprise rocks scattered around the runs are definitely taking a toll of my skis. I wish the storms in Austria would cross the Atlantic and come to Utah!
Our race arena at Park City opened last week. It rained the same day it was injected so it is nice and firm for training. Sadly, Christmas break is over so after a couple weeks of hard training, we are back to our regular training schedule. Only one more weekend of training before I am off to Jackson for the first Junior Champs qualifier!
.)) Molly Leavens
Our race arena at Park City opened last week. It rained the same day it was injected so it is nice and firm for training. Sadly, Christmas break is over so after a couple weeks of hard training, we are back to our regular training schedule. Only one more weekend of training before I am off to Jackson for the first Junior Champs qualifier!
.)) Molly Leavens
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