New School Skiing

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New School Skiing

• Simon Ashton
• www.freestylesnowsports.com
• www.curveski.com

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Overview

• What is New School?
• What are the components used?
• How to train it?
• Tricks
• Where are we at and what is the future?

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What is New School?

• Time in the park
• halfpipe
• rails
• jumps
• Freeriding
• big mountain
• Bumps
• SkierX

Its just skiing
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Is it different?

• No!
• skiers have always
• jumped
• slid sideways
• somersaulted
• skied big mountains
• Every generation finds their own new thing

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Jumps

• Different sizes
• Different shapes
• tabletops
• spines
• step ups

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Rails

• Different sizes
• Different shapes
• Rainbows
• Mailboxes
• Kinks
• Battleships

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Bumps

• Allows New School jumps
• Constantly evolving
• Technically demanding in all areas
• Physically punishing

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Skier X

• Four skiers race through a course of jumps and
  banks
• Alpine downhill racing skills win
• Not normal freestyle
• Given to freestyle as it came out of
  snowboarding and X Games

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How to Train it?

• Need a facility with at least basic jumps
• Rampettes
• reduce risk
• helps to teach the pop
• good for basic moves
• excellent for 180s and 360s
• Ramps
• steep kickers should be avoided
• good for more complex tricks
• greater risk of injury

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How to Train it?

• Waves adequate for bumps
• Mailbox rails best for learning
• Quarter pipes excellent for learning pipe tricks
• Only one half pipe in the country
• excellent preparation for snow

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How to Train it?

• Snow flex best synthetic material for New School
  trick development
• more forgiving
• Skier X difficult to train on dry slopes
• racing skills with jumps
• Freeriding
• train everything - no substitute for powder

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How to Train it?

• Foundation training rules!
• Balancing
• Energy
• Activity
• Skillful skiing
• Excellent all round skiers
• Race training programmes
• Prepare for the big mountain!

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How to Train it? - Jumps

• The pop is all important
• Legs slightly flexed
• Quick upwards action
• Imperative to stay balanced
• Arms used simultaneously
• Symmetry of action is very important
• stable position

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How to Train it? - Jumps

• T position is the basic building block
• Create lift and air from pop
• stable straight position
• line runs from head through body to feet
• arms brought up to create lift
• held out straight and approx. 45 degrees to front
• hands palms down - poles flat

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How to Train it? - Jumps

• Position depends on height of jump and strength
  of skier
• Strength is key to landing from height
• Legs slightly flexed on landing
• Arms held forwards
• Weight kept central
• allows faster recovery

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How to Train it? - Trampolines

• Excellent for developing air sense
• Many of the national team have their own
• Children develop skills by playing
• Practice moves before trying for real
• Can use taped skis

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How to Train it? - Water Ramp

• Practice complex jumps, with equipment

• Reduced risk
• Develops confidence
• Different sized ramps

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How to Train it? - Rails

• Jump onto rail
• Neutral fore and aft position - balanced
• Like sliding on Ice

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How to Train it? - Pipes

• Pop!
• Stay balanced

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Tricks

• Mute Grab
• Classic cross ski position
• cross skis in front of bindings
• opposite hand grabs ski in front of binding
• pull feet into back and to one side
• 180
• T out jump
• push shoulder in direction of rotation
• look to take off

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Competitions

• Moguls Tour
• AIMS Series
• Big Air Comps
• Sheffield Events
• English/British Champs (artificial/snow)
• Swiss Cup
• Europa/World Cup
• World Junior Champs/World Champs etc

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Present and the Future

• Bumps
• Olympic discipline
• competed at all levels
• Halfpipe
• Europa and World Cup
• SkierX
• Europa and World Cup
• Slope Style
• Europa Cup

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Present and the Future

• Europa Cup top ten results in Half Pipe
• Europa Cup top 15 results in bumps
• Few results in Skier X
• easier to crossover from alpine racing than other
  disciplines
• Numerous top three results in slopestyle

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Present and the Future

• Freestyle trained at
• Sheffield
• Bromley
• Rossendale
• Stoke?
• Kendal?
• Snow camps in Tignes - cheap!!
• Moguls Coach Award
• New School Coach on the way