Formation Day 6

Yesterday was day 6 of our formation.  The snow conditions have not changed much in the last week, and we are all praying for more snow soon.  Eagerly checking the various forecast sites each evening it looks as though we have a 40% chance of a few cm's of snow next week.

Post by Adrenaline, école de ski et snowboard.

(photo from Day 5)

Our coach for most of this week is Seb Mayer, http://arcteryx.com/Athlete.aspx?EN/SebMayer  Arcteryx sponsored pro telemarker, freerider and top instructor.  Yesterday we had a change for one day, and Marina from the ESI school, Arc en Ciel, based in Nendaz http://www.arcenciel-siviez.ch/en/winter-program-the-team-pxl-56_57_13.html came over to talk to us about teaching children, in particular 2 - 8year olds. 

This was super as she is really experienced with this age group, we all learnt loads, and were able to pick her brains on the best ways to introduce skills.  A chance to spend the day playing loads of games with our ski poles, hoops, cuddly toys, cones and pieces of string made a change too!  One of the group favourites was using a piece of rope to act as a mouse tail behind you, turning across the slope and seeing if the kid behind you can grab it.  Some people tried skiing with an edgy-wedgy at the front of there skis which was very amusing.  (an edgy-wedgy is a piece of plastic or elastic that you use to connect the two skis together at the front which helps smaller children make a snowplough).  By the time the day ended my brain was knackered from taking in so much information, so it was back home to refuel with some freshly baked banana bread.