Winter Break

During Winter Break, I was not able to ski the first week because I was in Florida with my family. So during the second week I stayed up and my family’s condo rental and skied at winter park. During the first three days I was there Winter Parks jumps were not open yet so I mostly focused on rails. The main thing I worked on was to get blind 270’s consistently on down rails because I think the blind 270’s are very stylish and they are very good for competition. Then after three days of Winter Park I headed over to keystone to better my rail skills in nice weather. When I was at Keystone I learned urban 270’s on to down rails. I am proud of learning this trick because I have been working on doing them all year and I finally landed a few.

After skiing Keystone for a day, I headed back to Winter Park to hit their newly made jumps and compete in a rail jam. The first day however was very windy and our team was cancelled so I headed over to the Frasier Rec-center to swim before the rail jam. Following that, I headed out to Hot Sulfur Springs to complete in a rail jam for the 100^th anniversary of their winter sports festival.        

Going into the rail jam my plan was to do blind two’s, blind switch up’s, and 270’s on because that’s what I did in practice before. When it started I decided to do a few tricks on one of the two features the box. I now think this was a mistake because I think I should have hit the rail first because there was no one sliding it and I think I could have caught the judges’ eyes. Then after doing a few 270’s on and off the box I set about hitting the rail a few times until I did a 270 off of it. After that I pretty much did the box the rest of the time except for a blind two on the down rail. I had a ton of fun at this rail jam but next time I want to be more creative and utilize more of the features.   

The next day was New Years and there was no team because of the holiday. So I went up to the mountain to ski with my friend Birk and hit the newly opened jumps. During the day I hit all of the jumps and even did a cork seven on the first which was a big accomplishment for me because I have never done a cork seven on a jump that was that big. Now my goal next weekend is to start doing grabs in my cork and regular sevens and also in my switch five’s. During this break I improved the skills a ton and I can’t wait to work on doing them with style next weekend.