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Podium Summer training programme 2010
Building on the success of nearly a decade of successful summer training, this summer will be the biggest and best ever summer camp.
The summer is a vital and important training time to everyone planning seriously to make changes in their performance for the season 2010-2011. The reliability of the summer weather and hard pistes and the rolling 2 Alpes glacier means that it is perfect to spend some time working on the fundamental technical building blocks needed to really enable fast and efficient skiing.
The day usually starts an uplift on the Jandri Express at between 7 - 7.30am and then we usually ski till approximately 12 depending on the snow conditions that day.
The Podium 2 Alpes summer camp has become synonymous with providing superb progressive training and a great fun atmosphere with some awesome afternoon sporting activities. The afternoons will be a mixture of sporting activities such as cycling, adventure activities such as rafting and hydrospeeding and relaxing such as spending some time at the pool.
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Eurotest foundation training 20 June - 2 July 2010 ....Join this popular summer
camp, now in it's ninth year, and do the all important base technical work
for your autumn training. 2 x 6 days
Test Technique foundation training 4th July - 16th July 2010 ...Get to grips with the basics of slalom so you can hit the ground running in the autumn and winter training. 2 x 6 days
Multidiscipline course 27 June - 9th July 2010 ...Take the second GS week and the first SL week to give you brilliant cross preparation for either Eurotest, Test Technique or BASI exams.
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Bring your sports kit!
There will be some base fitness training offered on road bikes [which you can hire if you can't bring one] and training kit will be needed for some afternoon physical activities:
The afternoons will be shared between leisure activities such as swimming, rafting etc, ski prep and video analysis and physical preparation
Prices:
The training cost is:
240 euros for 1 week [6 days]
450 euros for 2 weeks [12 days]
600 euros for 3 weeks [18 days]
800 euros for 4 weeks [24 days]
To secure your place please send a deposit cheque for £200 made payable to David Morris to the below address. This is only a caution and will not be cashed. It will be returned to you upon preferably cash payment in resort.
Villa Lespagne
Rue Emile Machet
73570 Brides les Bains
Savoie
France
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Accomodation:
Although I don't organise the accomodation myself, there are many accomodation options available whether in hotel half board, catered chalet or shared appartment.
Snowplanet.
Laura Eynard has organised various accomodation packages in 2 Alpes for over 20 years and is a great first call. Please contact Laura at snowplanet@snowplanet.it
Typically a shared appartment for 4 costs 600 euros upon [150 euros per week per person]. Many people in the past have opted for this type of accomodation.
Full and half board hotel accomodation is circa 50E pppn
I will also look into evening meal deals for the duration of the camp at the Aalborg hotel.
You should also check www.les2alpes.com for some great deals
Chalet Glacier
www.chaletglacier.com 39 euros Dinner , B & B or 25 euros B&B (normally based on two sharing)
admin@chaletglacier.com for info on catered chalet options.
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Lift passes
Lift passes for 6 days cost 167.50 However there are various ways of discounting this. i.e.
Getting the pass
through the European Ski School gets us a discount
Having an ISIA stamp also often gets a substantially discounted rate.
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Travel:
The 2 Alpes is approx 1 hours drive from Grenoble. This means flying to Geneva,
Chambery or Lyon or Grenoble get you to the right area.
Often some people drive and may be able to share travel arrangements or do
pick ups.
Otherwise there is a shuttle that runs between Grenoble and 2 Alpes on a Saturday
www.vfd.fr Please check the VFD timetable/horaire for exact details
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I hope this information
helps and that you can join us for this very popular summer training camp.
Please email me if I can be of any further information or help. I'd be more
than happy to help out!
Dave Morris
CSCF 3 & facilitator
BASI Trainer
Click
to return to Eurotest page.
Giant slalom: Tignes
Dates:
1st November – 10th December [6 weeks]
Mon – Friday with weekends off
Price: £180 pw or 210 euros pw
Coach: Dave Morris & Scott Bryson
Slalom: Tignes
1st November – 26th Nov [4 week programme compulsory ]
Mon – Friday with weekends off
Possible further training days between end of course and test.
Price: 200 euros pw / 800 euros full course
Coach: Agustin Torres
Lift
passes:
The latest lift pass information is now posted on the PodiumFacebook page.
and the news page of this site...
General information about autumn courses:
The courses will generally work from working on base technique and drill work though to more race specific skills in the later weeks so choose your weeks with care [GS]. The training will become individualised so that you can work on and take ownership of your training.
Both
courses will include:
On snow training in and out of gates
Video analysis [inc Dartfish]
Physical preparation [flexibility, recovery, core, agility and coordination,
general]
Mental preparation [inc race preparation, training focus, …]
GS and slalom theory
Mock races inc. against calibrated openers
Accomodation package
We will be using the same chalet deal that we used last autumn owing to it’s
popularity. There is limited availability to be quick to guarantee your place:
Week running Sat to Sat.
The Tignes Chalet Company.
http://www.facebook.com/l/;www.thetigneschaletcompany.com
info@thetigneschaletcompany.com
+44 07522 520507
Please be aware that the info on the site is what is offered to guests that
are paying quite a bit more during the main season. The £165 race training
deal includes:
Continental breakfast
2 course evening meal
7 nights accomodation (bedding included)
Sky free view TV and DVD player
Wifi as soon as it is sorted (may not be straight away)
Please provide your own towel.
For bookings of 4 weeks or more the price is £150 pw
Please contact Ben Arkley at The Tignes Chalet Company separately to make
the accommodation booking quoting ‘Podium’.
Payment for course:
Payment for a course place can be done by various means:
To secure your place please send a deposit cheque for £200 made payable
to David Morris to the below address. This is only a caution and will not
be cashed. It will be returned to you upon preferably cash payment [euros]
in resort.
Villa Lespagne
Rue Emile Machet
73570 Brides les Bains
Savoie
France
Payment by bank
transfer can also be arranged:
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summer training / autumn training / winter training... Podium is the longest running and most successful training group for the Eurotest. Since 2002, 74 people have trained with Podium and passed their Eurotest! With a coaching team of experienced FIS coaches [many of whom have also done the BASI system or are trainers], you have coaches who have a depth of experience way beyond the Eurotest but at the same time can relate well to the trials of a ski instructor having to become a racer, albeit, temporarily.
We really aim to give you the full backing of our knowledge and expertise to make your preparation the most thorough possible and 'leave no stone unturned'. Before the on snow work we are always on line to offer you advice and information on equipment and physical preparation and then we try and prepare each skier individually whatever stage of development they are at. Technical and tactical preparation is offered in a constructive and logical way to make you feel you are always working towards your goals. At first you will need to adopt a number of routines to make your training effective - warm up, hydration, stretching, cool down etc... After this we will set about going through basic skiing skills and seeing where you can improve. From here we can start to 'individualise' your training into regular drills and routines that will tackle your particular issues. Beyond this we will use gates for tactical and technical aims and to ultimately, put your technique into carrying a lot of speed and race. Training for your Eurotest inevitably takes time and commitment. We often build up a really good rapport between coaches and trainees over successive camps and work together with ideas and objectives to get the most out of every camp. Podium runs numerous camps throughout the year and would advise you to think of your preparation at least over the space of a year. In this way you can attend different camps with a different focus and really have effective training. There is more about this on the 'training tips page'. We run camps on the following periods of the year.
Autumn Camp: Tignes 31st October 2011 - 10th December 2011 Foundation training : Weeks 1,2,3 [31 Oct -18th Nov] Full GS: Weeks 4,5,6 [21 Nov - 9th Dec] £180pw/210€ For both slalom and GS camps in the autumn we are running a new format: We have i. foundations blocks ii. GS and SL blocks After years of running this training we think there is a better and more effective way of preparing yourself for these exams. It is commonly the case that jumping straight into GS or SL courses and racing is unrealistic and a hard path. There needs to be a 'stepping stone'; something that comes between recreational skiing and racing. This is the Podium foundation block. We already did try and prepare people in the best way possible but we are going to make it more explicit. What is a foundation block? The foundation blocks are the essential, introductory preparation blocks for being able to perform well in a race course. They will involve both slalom and GS type skiing and will look at all the fundamental areas that you will need to develop. Specific drills and courses will be set for speed of movement, lateral balance, fore aft balance, agility edging, separation etc. Competitive skiing and attitude will also be introduced at this stage. We would advise you to bring both SL and GS type skis if possible. This will also ideal 'core training' for BASI exams. Who is it for? A foundation block is for everybody but you must attend foundation training as a priority before going straight to GS or SL ie it is not an option to go straight into SL or GS if you haven't done any foundation training before. You may want to spend several weeks doing 'foundation training' to get ready for the GS or SL and you may want to spend a season or two concentrating on building your foundations before stepping into the GS SL arena. The difference is...when you step in you will be ready. Summer Camp: 2 Alpes / 19th June - 1st July 2011 [on snow dates with 12 days on snow and one rest day] Click here for summer info 2011. The summer camp is a brilliant camp. We have been running it in 2 Alpes since 2001 and we've never thought of going anywhere else. The terrain is perfect for working on technical changes and the atmosphere is second to none. The afternoon activities keep us coming back year after year with everything from golf to white water rafting. We're well established in 2 Alpes and so are able to get the best training pistes and be well looked after! To see some pictures from the 2007 camp click on the link below. The summer camp makes a massive difference to your success rate the following year. Far away from the pressure of the test, you can make the technical changes on a brilliant summer glacier in hard snow so that you can concentrate on speed during the autumn. http://web.mac.com/alplifestyle/iWeb/Site5/DeuxAlpes.html
Check out the coaches regularly used by Podium over the past few years...
Passes who have trained wholly or partly with the Podium team! [Dec 2002- Dec2010]
Contact Podium for an information pack/guidelines and information on summer winter or autumn camps info@podiumski.com
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