
Ski
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Bad mouthing by saying a course is flat and easy? It's a fact, not a bad mouth. Jeez, why don't you just open your eyes and look for yourself. IT ISN'T A MYSTERY WHERE EACH TYPE OF RACE IS HELD. Raceway at CB is the type of slope a J4/5 course will be on, which is also CB's NASTAR, yet they hold J3 and Cup races on Cliffy. Montage holds J4/5's on an easy blue square called Switch while the J1/2's have gate sets on the North Face diamonds as much as possible. The Bear Creek NASTAR could never qualify for holding a J1/2 or even J3 race. Even in NASTAR, there's no way Ridge raced on the course that the 17 yr old kids raced on at Nationals. NASTAR always sets little kid courses. I'll bet you a lift ticket that's where he was at Park City. But you'll find me very consistant in my opinion of NASTAR and USSA. NASTAR is a fun, gym-class level program intended for recreational skiers. There is no sanctioned coaching in NASTAR, just one guy in Utah trying to make enough money to quit his day job by charging twice the normal price for gimmick-ridden clinics. USSA is more like a YMCA swim club program. Some are good, while some are great. But all follow the same basic drills and coaching techniques. These types of clubs are where Olympic swimmers come from, not gym class swimmers. NASTAR is a bunch of gates drilled into the hill by a nice guy, meant for anyone with $5. What's not to love about that? USSA is about hardcore training to be the best in the world. It's absurd to compare the two. "Exactly, what I am saying. When the fun/interest is gone, it is gone." Didn't you wrestle in high school, Rob? Did you quit when it wasn't all fun and games?
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It's more like "shut up and respect the coaches", actually. Sort of makes me think back on Siblett and my oldest's first race season together. It was the year that December was the coldest on record in the Poconos and we kept catching them taking hot chocolate breaks in the team room---and they were laughing a little too much. But Sib and I were not laughing. We kept sending them back out into the -10 cold and let them know they had made a commitment they were going to follow through with. And when they fought with each other or teammates, we demanded they respect one another...even on days that they hated each other. And on race day, the loser was taught to act like a winner and the winner was to act like there was still more to learn. I think it's sad that you don't understand there's so much more at stake. So many valuable lessons.
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No, apparently not.
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Don't you hate when coaches coach? Rob: put the schnapps down and take a nap. I forgot to thank you for Damon. If he hits .220, though, he's coming right back.
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Yes, it is YOU complaining and it just seems like you are intent on sabotaging your kid's start in the race world because of your ignorance. Do you have any clue how creepy it sounds posting how "fast" a kid is and he never had to practice or do drills, yet the kid has never been on anything but a gym class NASTAR? Would you really want his coaches to read any of this? Rob, we ALL want to root for EVERY young racer, such as the one closest to you, but take your gripes with the coaches to a private place between you and them. Jeez, give me 20 kids with Missy's attitude on ANY kind of team over one prima dona. Lastly, Sib and I have made countless offerings of advise as parents who have gone through it all, yet you've ignored every bit of it. I couldn't even get it through your head that hazing is a crime and what happened was the purest form of the definition of hazing, because you felt the video was cool. You are a lost cause and I can't believe I allowed myself to be sucked into this pointless thread. I'm done trying to help you, but Ridge will ALWAYS be welcome to pm me for any racing and team related advise (although his TEAMMATE Missy could do just as well).
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Lake Ontario. NEPA gets a little of the remains of the lake effects, but it usually comes as broken-up, hit or miss snow squalls.
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It was such a cold rain that it didn't do much damage at all. And you could see the big-*ss kickers from the Iron Horse...Montage's park sure will be different this year.
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The rain sure sucked, but the snow was great today. We pulled in at 1pm, just as it was starting... Props to Montage for being open! And, yes, there were TONS of very friendly Asian American people there and could very well have been the reason they were open
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Yep. And what Jeff says, too. It's the oldest gripe in the world not to be in the gates, so nobody will give you a hard to time about feeling that way. But you aren't doing the kids any good by being a stage mom about it. Shut up and trust your coaches, or quit. Bad habits or the need for certain skills aren't cured or fixed in gates...they are made worse. The idea is to have the kids learn great turns and then put them in gates. And consider this: J4/5 GS courses are VERY basic and very NASTAR-like. There are no tricks or real rythm changes. Your kids have nothing to be concerned about. Without checking the schedule, I would assume they'd open with a GS, so there's plenty of time for them to learn slalom basics. Your kids are a couple of seasons away from their first meaningful race as 2nd yr J3's.
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You have some choices: 1. Take some courses, attend some camps, learn to race, and coach your kids the way you want them coached. 2. Trust a Level 3 Certified USSA coach with decades of experience that has turned out some of the best racers in PA year after year. 3. Quit and be a NASTAR racer. 4. Quit and go to Blue. The example you're setting by openly disparaging the CAT program and it's coaching methodology is as lame as it gets. Make an appointment with your head coach and have a private discussion so he can explain his philosophy as a Certified Level 3 USSA coach with decades of experience.
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Daily Report Thread - Post your pics and report here!
Ski replied to Papasteeze's topic in Camelback
Why are so many Mountain Creek riders such snotty b*tches? And now I've made my one XMas Eve post. -
Yeah, for sure there's no real complaints about opening date or terrain...they've always seemed to be in a little slow motion compared some Pocono areas, so that's no big deal. But I wonder what ever happened with the $1 million they needed to repair the pipes on the left side and to do needed upgrades/repairs on the lifts? Oh, and btw, Schif, you asked about the snow? Here's the top of Phoebe at 11am today (actually, I'm guessing they'd just brought a groomer up and over toward WL, but it was funny to see the corduroy):
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Oh, AKA the Corky...thanks, Think!
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Okay, Doug, I'm finally gonna break down and ask: what's a running man?
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It's really run the range from great to crap, just depends on when you hit it. Today was soft snow and just fine, but we were just up top. Coverage has been great, though, pretty much edge to edge, without any stones or anything. I'm pretty sure that even today was still a $20 ticket, which is a great deal for skiing Boomer and Cannonball.
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I was reading an article about Catamount (on the NY/Mass border) where the old guy that owns it said they are installing it's first new quad next season, but they would only run it at low speed. They take pride in empty slopes and having to wait a little in a lift line. If I trusted Lackawanna to keep Montage open and not just have it break down and eventually end up on the Lost Ski Area list, then status quo would be fine. But there's zero tolerance for money losing seasons and the politicians aren't bright enough to actually pull off a sale. My first choice would be to keep everything exactly the same. I may just be a little paranoid about them shutting down in the next couple of years, but I've been involved at least to some extent with three ski areas that are now gone: Belle Mountain, Hogback, and Mt. Tom.
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Montage seems destined for private ownership. The problem is that the county politicians are, well, politicians and their idea of a great marketing move is to spend tens of thousands of dollars to advertise the place for $5 million more than it's value... It's such a great place...friendly people from the two main shuttle drivers to most of the lifties...but the idiots that run Lackawanna County could very well blow a chance for a good company to take it over. Why not just hand the keys to Snow Time, Inc.? Look what they've done to Roundtop and Windham...freakin' Windham is an upscale, amazingly well run ski area with terrific managed growth. Lackawanna instead has chosen to be greedy and demand way too much in the short term, wherin Snow Time would create triple the current jobs and fix all the things that people have mentioned in prior posts. Pfffftttt... Still not up here...either you have a cached version, or it hasn't made it's way through all the servers.
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Cool, MS, I guess I missed them taking down the ropes. And, POC, it's just a regular Columbia...the straps are for a harness that has a handle so I can pick her up and put her on the lift. It's the last piece from the Apple Rise System that we still use.
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Man, Schif, empty is one thing, but blowing off your domain registration right before XMas? And is opening XMas day a sign of panic? IDK...it just doesn't look good.
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It's the beginning of XMas week and you go to visit the web site and you get this message: "skimontage.com RENEW THIS DOMAIN *Once a domain name has been renewed, it may take up to 48 hours to be reactivated. This domain name expired on 12/17/2005 and is pending renewal or deletion."
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I kind of expected some crowds today, since schools are out and a lot of people have off from work, but we pulled into a nearly empty lot around 11am and it was just as empty at 3pm... I guess final grooming was being done on Spike and maybe Switch. The Iron Horse was roped off the whole time we were there.
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MS, my bud, some day we'll have a chat during a lift ride about leaving some thoughts untyped.
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My days of putting Cole in girl's stockings are on hold.