new comers, and new lessons!

26 march 2012


GS! Training
today we did gs training! with our coaches George and Marty. We had a few new comers in elite today!!
They did very well and fitted in perfectly, the newcomers did well in GS because they pushed them selves.
The regulars did well today too, because they pushed them selves as well .


Once we had finished skiing we had a 1mile run with Marty as a second part of our training. We do this every day to build up core strength. Afterwards we had video analysis with feed back from our coaches,
Then Lunch.


 But after all out hard work we got the rest of the day off!!
so that was my day!

There's Ice Its Raining And Were Racing

24th March 2012


Race day


Today we had a race in zellenzilla. It was a race that had competitors from three Tirol region. I came 20th out of 26 competitors.  I was not pleased with today's result but hopefully I will do better at the British races in Meribel.   

Sunny and Silly Slalom Training

21st March 2012


slalom training


Today we did some slalom training. George said I skied very well today as I had a good line. I need to stay closer to the gates so my skies are almost scraping the gates. We did not do timing today but we will in two days.



Tomorrow we will be visiting a historical city called Salzburg.


 

sunny but no sand or sea

20th March 2012


GS training 


 First today we went up the gondola and did some free runs on the blues,then we went down one of the blacks to reach the top of Tenladen. Today we did some GS training at Tenladen, with George and Marti. On the first  run I  hit a gate and my pole flew off at the top of the course and I had to ski the rest of the course with one pole. We only did six runs today because it was so hot! I hope tomorrow will be a bit cooler.
 

shopping spree

17th march 2012


shopping with mum


Today I went shopping with my mum. We shopped dawn till dusk and we were absolutely shattered and we had an early night.


Tomorrow is mothers day and I have some things planned for mum.  

Amazing Mothers Day!

18th march 2012


Mothers day


Today was Mothers day. I made my a bird house and we had a home spa. in the evening me and mum walked into Oberau to have pizza at the pizzeria for tea.


Mum enjoyed mothers day and it was one of the best mothers day she'd had.

I Went To Win, I Wanted To Win, I Won!

16th March 2012 


Race Day Number Two In Villars


Today was our second race day in Villars. We all had a pretty good day today. Charlotte and I had GS and Max had slalom. Today was one of the first days this season that I really pushed myself to win. Here are today's results, Charlotte was bib number 94 and the times were combined so Charlotte's  first run time was 40.94 and her second run time was 40.44 so her combined time was1:21.38 and she was only 8.35 seconds of the winner which meant she came 5th, Max was bib number 51 and his time was 54.58 and he was only 7.44  seconds of the winner and he came 17th, today I was bib number 88 and my combined time was 1:13.03 and I won I was very surprised that I had won today but pleased all the same, the girl who came second was only 0.56 seconds off me. We are travelling home to Niederau tonight after prize giving.


Here is a picture of the captains in Villars


 

very good race day in Villars

15th March 2012


Race Day number 1 in Villars


Today was our first race in Villars for the Aiglon cup. Today all minis, children and juniors raced on the same course, it was a GS course (but for us minis it was like a superG). Today I came 2nd and Alysha Brown(the girl who came first) pipped me by 2 hundredths of a second. Today was a good day all-round as Charlotte came fifth and Max made the top 10.


Tomorrow I hope to do as well as I skied today!

Scorching Hot Training Day

14th March 2012 


Training Day in Villars


Today we did some ski training in Villars. It was scorching hot and it felt like the sun was shining brighter than it ever had before. We only did two hours today because we were really worn out. On the way back we took a wrong turning and got lost and had to walk into the centre to be picked up by dad.

Big Bad Banana Blunder

13th March 2012

Race day two

Today was our second race day. I didn't do very well, as I skied the wrong side of the second gate of the banana and I cried from that point onwards. I got a time that would have put me in third place if I hadn't skied out of the course. in the end I came 7th because of my final run. This evening we had prize giving and I collected my bronze medal for yesterday.  

rumbling race day

12th March 2012 


Race day number 1


Today was our first race day in Les Houches France. I flew down the coarse and bagged myself a third place. Third place is extremely good as this is the Inter School's competition and every  British  girls mini 2 competitor is there. Today Charlotte did very well and came 8th or 9th out of twenty-two girls. Tomorrow we will be racing on the children one girls course so I am a little bit scared but ready to rumble.

Time consuming Travelling

Sunday 11th March 2012


Travelling 


Today we travelled for six and a half hours to reach LesHouches in France from Niederau Austria. On the way there we stopped at one of the most expensive McDonald's in Switzerland, today I ate a whole big bag of crisps ( I don't think I will eat all of my tea tonight ). We will be racing for two days in LesHouches and then we will be travelling to Villars for some more races, on Tuesday 13th March 2012.

Lovely Long Ski Day

30th February 2012


Long Ski Day 


Today we had a long ski day with one of our coaches George. We did basic and straight forward training today and George said I did really well, as I always finished off my turns and I was very fast. We got home, had lunch, had video analysis and then had a free afternoon yippee!

Oh No! Ill Again

28th February 2012


Free Day 


Today I did not ski as I had a tummy bug and a very bad cold. Charlotte did not ski today as she had a cold too. Harvey was the only one who skied  as Max  had a bad knee but he was teaching me kick boxing during the day so my cold was obviously not to bad (neither is his knee). Mr Collins gave me a fractions sheet for me to do I got stuck on only three tough questions! 


I had an early night and went to bed as it is a big day tomorrow 

world book day book review

1st march 2012


Today is world book day and Elite are doing a book review on our favorite book and putting them on our blogs.


Here's mine!




Dizzy is the story of a daydreaming twelve year old girl whose hippy mother shows up, after years of absence, and takes dizzy for the summer to experience her gypsy life first hand.


When the book starts off dizzy is waiting in anticipation for the only contact she has with her mother all year. Her birthday present is sometimes a dream catcher and other times just a post card. Either way she lives for the chance to hear from her mother "storm" who left her and her father when she was just four years old. But this year instead of just a letter she receives the thing she's wanted for years, her mother in person. Who not only missed her but wants dizzy to come home with her to her...well in truth it's just some hippy's convention. Her father, knowing how erratic and unreliable storm is, of course refuses. But early next morning storm informs dizzy that her father has changed his mind during the night and they have to leave before he wakes up. So they stuff her things into a bag, say a quick goodbye to a thoroughly hung over dad and hit the road in storms beat up mystery mobile. At this point in the story its pretty obvious that dizzy's just been kidnapped by her own mother, but dizzy blinded by love just doesn't know it yet.


This book gets a 10 out of 10 from me as it is amazing, I would recommend dizzy to casual readers and an age period of 12 to 15 year old's, this book is my favourite as it stand's out because it's a dramatic but a surprisingly  predictable story 


 I did not ski today as I have a throat infection.   

Birthday Boy Bash

28th February 2012

No Training

Today it was Harvey's birthday so we did not do any skiing, just school. I gave Harvey  my old leki poles for his birthday. Everyone did school but Harvey did not do any school today, he went skiing with his dad. They were going up the chairlift, after they did the black run and Harvey dropped his new pole, they would have gone and got the pole but you could only reach the pole by boarding. In the afternoon we all went bowling and in the evening Harvey had a birthday party in the cave and dressed up as a big leprechaun!

Harvey really enjoyed his party.

Here is a picture of a leprechaun!

Wonderful Weekend

25th and the 26th February


race weekend 


Saturday


Today we raced at Oberau. It was the championships, my rival Selena was there . It was a pretty simple coarse with a bit of a roller included, it was long and rutted today but it was very easy to ski. I think I did  very well today and there were some good results, there were two separate races the championships was the first one and the  niederau club racers one was the second. In  the championships I came second out of 6 and Charlotte came fifth, in the second race there was only two girls and I came first and Charlotte came second.


Sunday 


Today was another race day, we raced at Tierbach near kufstien a place where I have never skied before. Today was a duel gs(a duel is where there is two coarse's and you race against the other person). One of my rivals(Georgia keys) beat me on the first run, but I beat her on the second run. I do not know for sure the results  of today's race but I think there were 9 girls in my age group and I came 5th .Charlotte I think was in another age group of nine and she came 8th.


Today was a really good day and Tierbach is a nice little village.

Funny Friday guest race

24th February 2012


Friday guest race


Today was a pretty simple day with two of our coaches Ian and Marti. We did two practice runs at tenladen and we had the race. The results from today were I came first and Charlotte came second out of two girls, I won by 7 seconds (but Charlotte did really well too)!Ian and Marti are strong rivals and Ian lost to Marti by a second.  I do not know the results of Harvey's race. 

Today I have not mentioned Max as he is off skiing because of a knee injury. 


In the evening we went to karaoke and I only sang two songs! 

amazing movie night

23rd February


Training in Oberau


Today we did some gs training in oberau. We trained with Marti and Ian today although Ian did some slalom training with Max. My dad and my teacher Mr Collins both came with us today and they skied down the coarse (they did not do very well). Marti and Ian said my skiing was very good today. At the end Marti put all Ian's gear on and tried to ski the slalom coarse, it took him three runs to not ski out of the coarse.

In the evening (after tea) we all had a movie night , we watched a movie that every one liked called stardust. I really enjoyed stardust and I would like to see the movie again.

Tingling Tuesday

21st February


Training


Today we did some training with our dry slope coach Andy. We went all the way across the ski welt and then we stopped for lunch.


We stopped for lunch at the ruberts-alm (they are famous for their delicios plate of 25 ribs and a large beer for £11.50) Harvey and I ate all our ribs but we did not eat our chips.


Here is a photo of some ribs 



Today we skied through Hopfgarten, Sheffau, Westendorf and Elmau. We also did the BMW gs coarse it was the most rutted coarse I've ever skied.


We got home and had tea then I watched a movie with my mum and I then went to bed.


I did not do my blog on Monday because I was ill and I did not go skiing, but I am feeling much better now.

Silly Saturday Ski Guiding

18th February 2012


ski guiding


Today I went ski guiding with my dad at the ski welt. We do lots of trips every season but this is my first one as I has been very busy with my races and race training. We went with some people I know. We started off with 15 . Our first stop was at the twins hut but we got there  to early and they were closed so then we started skiing again. Our next stop was a lovely restaurant on the middle of the hill. Everyone had a hot chocolate(  either with or without rum) a sausage, bacon roll or a chocolate bar. We started to ski again. We went to sheffau and three people left. Then there were 12. We had 2 more runs and went to the rib shack for lunch. I had a whole plate of ribs(but did not eat them all):. We went up a chair lift and five  people were left. Then there were 7 .We went to have our last stop at the witches hut and three people accidently passed us. We ended up with four people(including the guiders).


Today was really fun and I can't wait to go ski guiding again.

Flying Friday free day

17th February


Free Day


Today we had yet another free day ( but we had to do school ). Today we had school in the morning and then we had a free afternoon. In school we first did our blogs (not this one obviously ), then we did some history ( not my strongest subject!) , then we did some maths, one of my favourite and strongest subjects last but not least German. After school, me and my mum and my dad went to Mpries to have lunch. I had a pizza and a Chocolate ice cream for pudding (they were both delicios), my mum had a latte and my dad had a hot chocolate.


We got home and at 6.30 we had dinner, after dinner I jumped in the bath and when I got out the floor was so wet I went flying and luckily I landed on my bed.


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blazing bumps

16th February 2012


Ski cross 


Today we did a ski cross race at Tenladen. I was against my other rival Selena. Today my times were 53 and 55 seconds and hers were 52 and 51 seconds. Today I came second  I was pleased with my result but I could have done better and won the race as I have done before.


In the evening we had a young adults disco in the cave bar, it was really fun and really loud.

15th February 2012 


 Race day number 2


Today was Charlotte's birthday and at breakfast she had a birthday meal. Today Charlotte's bib number was 17, Lucy's was 6, Harvey's was 65 and I was number 2. The result was much better than yesterday I only know my result we think I came forth and the person who came 3rd beat me by 0.07 of a second. We left after the race for the staffler and had a burger king on the way back.

racing with my rivals on valentines day

14^th February 2012

Race day number 1

Today we did our first race in Bormio.  I thought the course was very tight for my long skies. Charlotte’s bib number was 1, Lucy ( one of our ski racers) bib number 36, Harvey’s was 29 and mine was 13. In today’s race charlotte came 15^th, Lucy came 14^th and I came 10^th. I was disappointed with today’s result so I hope to do better tomorrow.   

Tricky Training

13th February 2012


Training in Bormio


Lucy and I went to get the lift passes for the minis (it was a nightmare). We went up the gondeler and Lucy had to show us the way down because the rest of us didn't have a clue! We then met up with Dad and Will at the top of the gondeler by the children's race course. We then went right to the top of the Bormio ski resort and skied down with my dad. We did a couple of runs then had lunch. After lunch we went to watch Max and Morgan race slalom. We then called it a day. On our way down we skied down a famous super-G slope called Chuck. We managed to find our way back to the hotel with a long uphill walk!

Racing for Bormio

12th February 2012


Racing and travelling


Today we did a ski cross at Ebbs but we couldn't find the slope so we missed course inspection by 2 minutes! In the course we went through some tunnels and jumped over a jump! Harvey's bib number was 92, Charlotte's was 63 and mine was 91. In the race I came 8th out of 18 people and my friend/rival on the slopes Georgia Keys beat me by 100th of a second. 


We left Ebbs and went back to the hotel. We had about 15 minutes to get everything ready before we left for Bormio, Italy. It was a long journey!

Lollies lovely lazy day

11th February 2012 


Lazy day 


Today I had a lazy day for the first time this season.  

freezing and ferocious GS

10th February


GS training and Hochtal cup (guest race) with our coach Marti. First we did some GS training on my new skies (I really like my new skies), I improved a lot that day.Then we did the guest race, it was quite an icy coarse. My first run time was 49.74 seconds and my second run time was 50.89 seconds. I came 2nd in the girls all ages and my friend Charlotte came 3rd. 


In the evening I did some karaoke at O'mally's 


I can now say that I am updating my blog while I'm away.

gate whipping GS

8th February 2012


GS training 


Today we did some gate whipping GS training with our coaches, George and Marti. I  was on my new skies  today (they are longer than my dads), my new skies are 165cm long a whopper length. I need to improve on keeping on my edge and making my turn rounder, although  it was very icy today. 


I now can officially pronounce, that I am the girls captain of Elite Snow Sports.


In school we are writing a news paper article for English, doing 2d shapes for maths and rocks and soils in science. 


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 The people in the photo are Marti and George, my two coaches.

cold and crazy slalom

7th January 2012


slalom training


Today we did some slalom training with our coaches, Marti and George. 
It was very cold today especially when we were out of the sun. We used full slalom gates today on the top coarse and stubbies at the bottom, I preferred the top coarse as we could hit the gates. I still need to improve on keeping my upper body straight and letting my legs do the work and letting the gates come to my hand by not reaching my arms out.


Today me and the boys went to O'Malley's and played the nail game ('the nail game' is a game where you have a nail per person and you have to hammer them into a log the first person that gets the nail in to the log wins), I thought the nail game was really fun but Harvey struggled to hit the nail.

slippery slalom

7th February  2012


Today we did some full  gate slalom training at affach. We skied with our coach George today, George thought I did very well today especially when I came over the finish line.
I went in a tuck position and let myself glide over the finish line.
I need to improve on keeping my upper body straight and letting my legs do the work.


I really enjoyed today especially the top coarse.

fear of the jump

3rd January 2012


Today we did some GS with our coach Ian. In our GS coarse there was a jump, I was scared to go off this jump so I skidded before I went off the jump. This GS coarse included rollers as well as jumps.


I didn't like today because of the jump but if we do this again i would like to conquer my fear and go off the jump.

free skiing at affach

6th January 


free skiing


Today we did some free skiing at the amazing  affach. We skied with a group today, I  skied with the girls Jane, Ruby, Yana and Emily.I really enjoyed today especially going off-piste with a snow boarder called Beau.

I can't wait to go to go again.      


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powder day

2^nd February2012

 Powder day

Today we did some school in the morning and some powder skiing in the afternoon. We skied with our other coach Ian, on our first run we cut of a black run and skied down under the chairlift. Second run we went on and off piste and then we went down the Ten Laden run before going home.

I really enjoyed the skiing today, especially going under the chairlift, as I enjoyed knowing people were watching me ski.

I still need to improve on jumping as I turn, I am hoping to master it tomorrow as I am getting better at it each day.

31st January-free skiing

31^st January 2012

Free skiing

Today we did some free skiing with another coach called George. Today we went on and of piste, we did half pipes and gully’s as well. I conquered my fear of going of steep drops and we had to ski down a cliff drop and I did it!!! Today was really fun I enjoyed skiing in the gullies, I can’t wait to go again. 

I need to improve on jumping as I turn, by letting my skies run freely. 

We went skiing at Auffach today, if you want to find out more about Auffach then click on the link bellow

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30th January 2012 - New Cat Suit!!

30^th January 2012

Race training

Today was the first time I wore my cat suit. We did slalom training, I really enjoyed it. We trained with a coach called Ian. We did about 10 runs today, about 5 on each course. After five runs we went in for a hot chocolate, sausage and chips, while Ian set a new course. 

I, personally preferred the first course as the gates felt like they had more rhythm than the second coarse.  

 I enjoyed it today, and on our last run we went full cat suit, it was great and made me feel like I was faster. 

I need to work on keeping my upper body straight and facing down the hill, pushing more on my edge and keeping my body forward, if I do this I will improve on my times.

friday 27th race day

27^th January 2012

Race day

Today we had the race, the first course was like a super g for minis and GS for children and above. |The second course was easier and my time improved. I was disappointed with my ranking, first run I placed fifth and second run I placed third, which was a little bit better but I was aiming to come first. We left after that and I am getting my medal sent on.

thursday 26th training

26^th January 2012

Training in Switzerland

Today we were training in Switzerland with two other girls charlotte and Alysha. We did gs training with a coach called Smiley. It was really fun we skied two different courses. At 12 o’clock we had lunch and after that we did some free skiing and went back to the hotel.

wednesday 25th travelling

25^th January 2012

  

Travelling

We travelled to Switzerland for the Welsh championships. We will be staying for two nights and three days. Charlotte, me and Harvey will be racing for one day and Max for two days. In the car we watched movies. My coach Ian, me and my dad in the front and Charlotte, Max and Harvey in the back. When we got to the hotel we unpacked the van and had tea then went to bed. 

24^th January 2012

Powder day

Today we did two runs but they were really long, it took us 2 hours! The first run was cutting off from red 19. It was really fun down there Marti did some video runs then we cut off from a black run and Marti fell over it was really funny then we went home. We had lunch and started school.

  23^rd January 2012

Tenladen, Neiderau 

  We focused on GS. We did free runs while Marti set the course. Marti told me to improve on my tuck it has to be lower and I have to absorb the bumps and push harder on my edge to stop me sliding. We took out the course and went home for lunch we had frankfurters for lunch then  we Started school.

lolli's first blog

Hi I’m Lolli Brooker, this is my first ski blog. I’m 10 years old and I’m currently doing a ski race season in Austria. My parents own the academy I race in, its called elite snow sports.

 My goals for this season are to get podium in the entire British races, podium in all my local club races and in the berserk’s races top 10.  I will be updating my results on this blog. I will be talking about what I have done that day in training and races on my blog. My friends that are staying for the season are Charlotte, Harvey and Max, they are doing a blog too.    to go onto the elite website click here elite snowsports website or to find out more about me click here lolli brooker