NCO Ski Team

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NCO Ski Team

• 2008-2009 Season

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Goals

• Strive to be the best regional team
• Be the leaders and role models in the NCD/OSZ
• Be a unified team a team that helps and supports
  its members where we push each other to reach
  our goals and achieve our max potential.
• Maintain the best possible school to ski ratio.
• Some night skiing to increase the days in school
• Maintain a good fitness level throughout the year
• Some afternoon training sessions during the
  season
• Be injury free (major ones anyway)
• The last two points will help us achieve this
  goal

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Performance Factors

• Mental training (Performance planning, race prep)
• -Ottawa High Performance Center Shaunna Taylor,
  PHd (cand)
• Physiotherapy
• -Ottawa High Performance Center
• Equipment
• -Needs K2 FIS
• -Maintenance wax requirement
• -Service through TL
• Training environment
• -Quality training venues, planning
• -Exposure to other elite athletes-Positive
  enjoyable atmosphere
• Communication
• -coachparentathlete
• Rest and Nutrition

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Dryland/Testing

• 4 physical tests at Carleton university
• -June 5th
• -July 26th
• -September 13th
• -November 1st
• FIS Dryland
• Working on general fitness
• Should be training 12 hours/week 8sessions
• Biking/endurance
• Stairs/anaerobic endurance
• Agility
• Circuit training
• Switched to Saturdays due to poor attendance
• Important that everyone attends
• Team bonding
• Same track
• Monitoring progression
• Motivation /push each other
• General fitness to endure longer days on snow and
  reduce the risk of injury more beneficial camps

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Dryland continued

• K2 Team dryland
• -Officially begins this Saturday with testing,
  Carleton U
• -Team workouts 2x a week, Wednesday evenings and
  Saturday mornings, Mont Bleu High School.
• -Strength, Speed, Stamina, Suppleness, Stability
• Strength and conditioning programs
• -Athletic Conditioning Center
• -Thomas Macneil
• -Louis Riel, Jean Robert Leger
• -Others
• -K2 3x a week

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What weve Done so Far

• First camp (SL emphasis)
• 8 days of skiing
• Main focus
• Stance and balance
• Rhythm and control
• Very much technical emphasis
• Outside ski
• Stable upper body
• Creating angles/carving

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• Second camp (GS SL)
• 6 days GS 5 of SL one day missed due to bad
  weather
• Major focuses
• Stance and balance
• Outside ski
• Tempo and tactics
• Touched on strategic ways to finish a course
• Some timing, individual focus

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MT Hood Summer Camps

• Positives
• -Full Slalom gates, approx 300 gates x 5 days
• -Terrain
• -Food, Rest, energy level
• -Weather
• -Equipment service and testing

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Some Video
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Are we on the Right Track??

• Yes
• Everyone without exception improved a great deal.
  Those who did both camps especially have made a
  nice progression.
• Improvements that can be made
• Increase physical fitness for more efficient on
  snow training

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FIS Pre season camps

• Chile camp (Valle Nevado)
• Focus
• Speed initiation 20
• Getting used to the speed
• Jumps
• Glide
• Tactical solutions 50
• Some more basics of course 30

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FIS Camps

• West camp
• Focus
• Race prep 50
• Tactical emphasis 40
• Timing
• some technical basics 10

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K2 Pre season camps

• October Fall camp
• Develop a technical foundation with the athletes
• Lots of volume, freeski, drills, gate drills
• Team Dynamic
• November Pre season Camp
• West vs East
• Early season gate training
• Quality training environment

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Races

• Individualized schedule
• Only high fluoro and overlay (Swix).
• There will be enough for everyone, no special
  treatment
• We would like for everyone to use the Swix brand.
  
• You will need to provide wax for base coats
  (CH,LF)
• Basically at race we will only provide the adders.

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2008-2009 Schedule
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FIS Cost Details

• 2008/2009 Budget
• - Andy Wolff
• Included
• Vans
• Full time coaching and planning
• Camps 2 fall camps, 1 speed camp, 1 tech camp
• Food and accommodation at away races (except
  lunches)
• Race entry fees
• Uniforms
• Race wax
• Dryland expenses
• Local training
• - Equipment service

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FIS Cost

• Extra
• J1 Nationals
• Senior Nationals
• Summer camps
• Norams and extra races

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K2 Cost Details

• All Regional Starts Taschereau Provincials
• Full time Coaching
• Full season periodized plan
• Dryland costs
• Vans
• Uniforms
• Camps November, pre season, speed
• Local training and passes
• Equipment Service
• Overlay wax for major events
• Not Included
• Nationals and Whistler Cup
• Day to day training and race waxes
• October camp

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Fundraising

• NCO Auction
• -Lise Oda
• Bingo
• Art Tommy Memorial Golf Tournament
• Other fundraising initiatives

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Questions???