Racing Kids

Swede · Jan 19, 2019

Erik Timmerman said:
I wouldn't even try.

My daughter could humiliate me in SL already in U14.:

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I could still hang with her in GS but by U16, bye, bye. SG too fast for me from day one.

ella_g · Jan 28, 2019

@Erik Timmerman tuning in late to say that's some fierce skiing!!!!! U16? She should come out here & do dick's ditch banked slalom all the u16 racers do it ... she'd kill it

Erik Timmerman · Jan 28, 2019

ella_g said:
@Erik Timmerman tuning in late to say that's some fierce skiing!!!!! U16? She should come out here & do dick's ditch banked slalom all the u16 racers do it ... she'd kill it

That looks fun. Didn't see any U16 racers in this video though, I'd love to see how they do it.

ella_g · Jan 28, 2019

@Erik Timmerman they totally dominate. The video makes it look like more of a pro boarder dude thing but a bunch of local kids do it too and the racers do great. Full disclosure I’m doing it w one of my kids and will 100% be TERRIBLE , a friend out of concern or pity offered to coach me :doh:

Erik Timmerman · Jan 28, 2019

There had better be video.

UGASkiDawg · Jan 28, 2019

My first year FIS kid is headed for her first race coming back from ACL surgery last March at Spirit Mtn in Duluth. They are flying out on Wed morning and were planning to practice Wed night and Thursday to race Fri-Sun and now we find out that Spirit is closing Tues-Thur due to projected wind chills of -50-60 and actual temps of -20ish for those days :nono:

She's excited about her first plane trip race but not the cold.

update:
Southwest cxld all flights into MSP on Wed and Thursday so the team loaded up the van and left Wed afternoon for the 16.5 hour drive to Duluth to ski 700 vertical feet :roflmao:

Erik Timmerman · Feb 11, 2019

Ross Biff · Feb 11, 2019

UGASkiDawg said:
My first year FIS kid is headed for her first race coming back from ACL surgery last March at Spirit Mtn in Duluth. They are flying out on Wed morning and were planning to practice Wed night and Thursday to race Fri-Sun and now we find out that Spirit is closing Tues-Thur due to projected wind chills of -50-60 and actual temps of -20ish for those days She's excited about her first plane trip race but not the cold.

update:
Southwest cxld all flights into MSP on Wed and Thursday so the team loaded up the van and left Wed afternoon for the 16.5 hour drive to Duluth to ski 700 vertical feet

I LOVE the dedication and enthusiasm.....Road Trip!!!

Zski · Feb 15, 2019

My son is a 2nd yr U16 skiing at an academy as a day student as we live locally to our Mt

His GS and SG have really taken off this yr
Scored his lowest pt race at the ussa GS project a couple weeks ago and knocked over 100 points off his SG points during ussa speed week
He is is a speed kid and isn’t really into SL

QueueCT · Feb 23, 2019

Tough lesson for one of my U12 daughters. She was leading at the local championships after her first slalom run then walked out of her binding pushing out of the start house at the start of her second. Athletes walk up some stairs then put on their skis. Bet she double checks every single time from now on. There's always the GS in the rain tomorrow.

Erik Timmerman · Feb 23, 2019

Good luck tomorrow.

hbear · Feb 23, 2019

They do combined times at U12? That’s rough.
We either do a best of, or single runs. Theory to setup the kids to go all out and race with some risk. Combined times used to be used long ago but found kids would ski more cautious in run 2 if they had a lead as not wanting to ruin a placing with DNF.

Always interesting to hear how other areas do things.

Up here we don’t do any combined times until U16.

QueueCT · Feb 24, 2019

Daily podium is combined time, championship determined by best two of the six scoring opportunities (4 individual runs plus 2 combined times). So, she still has a chance to place well overall. I suppose the good thing is that she never holds back. It's been either first or DNF this year in each run.