The Club formed:
To help Racers to progress from plastic onto snow!
To progress racers from grass roots level to national squads
The Snow Club
The Club was formed:
To help Racers to progress from plastic onto snow!
To progress racers from grass roots level to national squads
The Snow Club was originally formed to help regional racers, who normally
skied and raced on plastic slopes in this country, to train and race on snow
with coaches they knew.
The Snow Club aims to promote and support the skier’s home club. This
means the racer competes for their home club when racing on snow with the
Snow Club as their 2nd club.
The club works with qualified coaches and is concerned to look after ‘the new
racer’ as well as FIS license holders.
Although a small club, with relatively few members, we have been in
existence since 1990, and have had a very distinguished start with a
number of British and English champions. For 3 years, we were been the
holders of the 3rd best placed BARSC club at the BARSC championships which
is a tremendous achievement considering that we are one of the smaller clubs.
Each year ‘our’ children are invited to compete abroad as members of the British
Children’s squad. Our members are regularly invited to be members of the English
Alpine Squad. Currently there are racers who are either current or past members of
The Snow Club in the English Alpine Squad. The Snow Club does not just focus on
its top performers but also takes a lot of time and care over preparing the newcomer
to snow racing. It is a central part of our training to instill good technical foundations
in our skiers. Obviously, this makes the training camps beneficial to skiers just wishing
to improve their general technique and we have skiers at every training camp who just
do this. At each Summer Training Camp, The Club concentrates on the ‘younger’ age
group with special development groups, designed to help the inexperienced
racer while keeping the process fun.
If requested, our Coaches will produce a written report for the home club
Coaches in order to keep them informed of 'their' racers progress while away
on snow. The Racer will need to tell us where to send the report.
Should any Club Coach wish to attend a training camp, we would be very
pleased for them to take part. Over the years, many of the region's Coaches
have participated in running Snow Club Camps. We always encourage Clubs
to join in.
BASIC SNOW CLUB PROGRAMME
INTRODUCTORY LEVEL:
Young skiers entering into race training for the first time will do much of their
initial work outside the poles. The younger skiers will ski mostly GS or
enlarged slalom courses as an introduction but our main emphasis is on
keeping it fun and working on the basic skills required in game and task
formats.
RELEVANT RACES:
At this stage, we select the easier and more relaxed events (minis races and
club races)
DEVELOPMENT LEVEL:
As the skier grows in experience, then it is necessary to run more slalom
courses but the main technical thrust is still towards GS as this is the most
technical discipline and we believe it builds the skill required for success in the
other disciplines. Emphasis now is on checking fitness, technical elements
and building speed safely.
RELEVANT RACES:
Most of the bass seeded races are now suitable and we try to select a full
range such as the BARSC championships, British school girls invitation races,
British school boy’s races, the British + English championships.
INDEPENDENT RACER
Many independent racers use our training facility and expertise to help to
prepare them for individual events and also as part of a full training
programme. As stated before, we also can help FIS standard racers with their
individual race programme.
SUMMER TRAINING CAMP 1 to 3 WEEKS
Training will be for all standards and is arranged in small groups. You can
stay with the group for one, two or three weeks. Skiing will take place in the
morning with a full programme of sport, including jogging, in the afternoon.
OCTOBER HALF TERM CAMP
Training will again be for all standards in groups of similar skiing ability. This
camp will get you ready for the races around Christmas and New Year.
CHRISTMAS/NEW YEAR RACING CAMP
Few days training before ONE OR TWO club races followed by the BARSC
Championships.
FEBRUARY HALF TERM TRANING CAMP
A training camp for general skiing skill aimed at the young racers.
EASTER TRAINING AND RACING CAMP
This camp will look after 'our' racers before and during the British
junior/children championships and the English alpine championships.
JANUARY/beginning of FEBRUARY
We aim to have one team entered in each of these race series.
RACING IN
When requested, one of our trainers will take racers up to
selected race weekends - (usually excellent for getting 'good' seed points).
NEWSLETTERS will be sent automatically to all Snow Club members and to
individuals on request, It is our aim to keep you fully informed, so if you don't
know, please ask and if we don't know, we will try to find out!
IF WE CAN CONTACT YOU VIA E-MAIL, PLEASE LET US HAVE YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS.
MEMBERSHIP runs from JULY to JUNE. ALL MEMBERS ARE ASKED TO
SIGN A CODE OF CONDUCT and a MEDICAL CONSENT FORM.
We have a representative on the BARSC executive, on ARC, alpine race
committee, (part of the Snowsport England) and the BSSF events executive.
Any information gathered will be circulated to all our members.
If you would like any further information on the Snow Club, Please contact:
Phil Brown – philbski1@aol.com
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