Last weekend the team had a strength and conditioning weekend at Leading Physique, organised by Chris Stewart. Chris is a three time British Telemark Champion who has had two top 15 places in a World Cup. He has recently put his skiing career on hold to set up a new gym near Clitheroe.

 

On Saturday Chris taught the team the correct movements for the exercises with very light weights. This was followed by a full work out on Sunday. Some of the exercises he taught the team were really interesting and were not the standard exercises you can do in a gym. The hardest exercise was pushing a weighted sledge up and down a slope. Chris has done a lot of work finding exercises that work the same muscles as telemark skiing and this definitely got the legs burning!

A huge thank you to Chris for a fantastic weekend. The team will look to use this facility more in the future and Chris’s expertise.

On Saturday 19th there was a mini telemark festival with two training sessions, a strength and conditioning talk/demo from three time British Telemark Champion Chris Stewart and a curry in the evening to finish it off. The training sessions were run by top coaches: Danny McCabe (BASI), Andy Stewart, Chris Stewart and Jack Morrissey. In the morning there was general group training and gate training was available in the afternoon for those who wanted to have a go.

On Sunday 20th we had the third race of the series. The Glasgow ski centre kindly fenced off half the slope for the event and helped set the gates and run the timing. They have been so helpful for this event, as they were last year. Thank you so much to the sponsors for fantastic prizes yet again! Buff, Trespass, Blues and Mountain Spirit. See the photos below for the lucky prizewinners. Thanks also to the Royal Marines who provided radios for the races and BASI who provided an instructor. Finally a big thank you to all those parents and friends who marshalled and organised the races, especially James and Jack who ran the race.

Below are the STC members results, well done to all! You can download the overall Glasgow Telemark results here! The Scottish Telemark Club dominated in the team and individual competitions with their there teams placing 1st, 2nd and 4th and there was an STC member in first place in every age category except one!

The next event in is Hemel Hempstead in September, come along if you want to learn to telemark.

The British Indoor Telemark Series is well under way with two down and two to go! It was a fantastically sunny weekend in Tamworth which was unfortunately spent indoors but everyone had a great time doing it. A huge turn out for the festival and race day – thank you to everyone that took part, it’s was lovely to see so many telemarkers.

The guys from Teletracks organised the festival day which offered coaching from top BASI coaches with video analysis. Over lunchtime there was an introduction to strength and conditioning from Andy David who is a former professional athlete and British Freestyle Skiing Champion who is now a Level 4 Master Personal Trainer. Thank you to all these guys who made it a fantastic day.

The race on sunday was very well organised by British Team member Jack Harvard Taylor and Ben Langridge from TeleTracks. Also a huge thank you to the sponsors who provided the prizes: Buff, Scott and Back Country UK. The results can be downloaded here: Tamworth Results. Congratulations to all prize winners, overall results for top 10 were:

• 1st James French
• 2nd Colin Shepherd
• 3rd Ed Lees
• 4th Sion Bingham
• 5th Louis Hatchwell
• 6th Anna Morrissey
• 7th Will Bellamy
• 8th Martin Chohan
• 9th Paddy Armour
• 10th Frankie Vaughan

The next event will be in Glasgow on the 19/20th July. PLEASE NOTE THE DATE FOR HEMEL HAS CHANGED TO SEPTEMBER 27TH.

The telemark weekend in Manchester was a huge success! Both days were well attended with over 30 competitors in the race on Sunday. A huge thank you to the guys from TeleTracks who brought along some Scott NTN equipment and provided some excellent race coaching on Saturday. Thank you also to Buff and Scott who provided some fantastic prizes. When we have fixed the site we will add some photos.

The overall results are available here: Manchester Results PDF.

Finally, congratulations to the prize winners:

Masters Men

• 1st Colin Shepherd
• 2nd Tigs Chohan
• 3rd Gordon MacRae

Masters Ladies

• 1st Alison Morrissey
• 2nd Alexandra Bojarska
• 3rd Sally Bartlett

Senior Men

• 1st Danny Johnson
• 2nd William Bellamy
• 3rd Paul McAree

Senior Women

• 1st Anna Morrissey

Junior Men

• 1st Robbie Housoun
• 2nd Jasper Taylor
• 3rd Sion Bingham

U16 Boys

• 1st Scott Williams
• 2nd Barney Hodge
• 3rd Daniel Porteous

Team Competition:

• 1st Scottish Telemark Club
• 2nd Army
• 3rd Royal Marines Reserves A
• 4th Manchester Telemark Club
• 5th Royal Marines Reserves B

Thanks for making the weekend such a success. It was great to see so many new faces and of course the regular attenders. The bar has been set high for the rest of the races!