Author: Team Summit

Crushing It Awards

Written by Team Summit on January 22, 2021. Posted in Archive 2021, Awards.

The Crushing It Awards Throughout the year, families and staff recognize members of the team with what is known as the Crushing It Awards. The criteria is simple: Do you feel this person needs to be publically recognized? Crushing It Awards can me nominated by parents, athletes, or staff. If you would like to nominate a staff member, please email info@teamsummit.org.

Alpine Updates – January 22nd, 2021

Written by Team Summit on January 22, 2021. Posted in Alpine Update, Archive 2021.

Alpine Updates – January 22nd, 2021 Dear Team Summit Alpine Ability and Age Class athletes, parents and Interested Parties: FINALLY, all age groups have had their first competitions this month! In just the first few weeks of 2021 our athletes have been racing successfully in FIS, USSA, Age Class and FIS University competitions after a full preparation period this fall. As we now move into the race season, the coaches will provide each athlete a written in-season/prep period evaluation and ask each athlete to set their competition goals for the year. This is...

Snowboard Updates – January 21st, 2021

Written by Team Summit on January 21, 2021. Posted in Archive 2021.

Snowboard Updates – January 21st, 2021 We have been working with the Woodward at Copper Team to come up with some spring and Summer Camp options for our snowboarders. We are expecting to hold spring camp in late April/May. We are aiming to have that info ready in late February/March. Woodward put together a great summer camp program for us last year and we are looking to do something similar again this year. We are planning to run summer camps in July and also planning to have a week, after their normal camps are over, where we can push all the snow into bigger...

Moguls Tips and Tricks: Riding the Wave

Written by Team Summit on January 20, 2021. Posted in Moguls.

Tips and Tricks: Riding the Wave Great adjustments with your skiing in the wave tank last weekend. This tool lets us see things that will make your skiing easier and more fun. When you watch this video pay close attention to the guy in the yellow pants. He is Mikael Kingsbury, the most successful mogul skier of all time. Watch for these key points in his position in the wave tank: 1- knees pulling up to absorb the wave 2- feet pulling backward (when his knees are up) to have the tip of the ski contact the downhill part of the wave 3- feet staying under his body at all times When you work...

January 16th, 2021 Newsletter

Written by Team Summit on January 16, 2021. Posted in Archive 2021, Newsletters.

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Executive Director Updates – January 15th, 2021

Written by Team Summit on January 16, 2021. Posted in Admin Message, Archive 2021.

Registering for USASA

Written by Team Summit on January 13, 2021. Posted in Snowboarding.

Registering for Competitions with USASA I wanted to let everyone know that the first USASA slopestyle on Jan 27th there are only 8 Spots left for competitors. Once these spots fill up there is no way to get kids in to the contest. go to rockymountainseries.com to sign up. I also made a video on the registration process and how to make sure you did the process correctly. check out the video here. https://drive.google.com/file/d/13D8pimCDa1uywLNdc8XjsWTvFSKt_Qgz/view?usp=sharing Thank you -Matty V

Athlete of the Month – Ella Kirschner

Written by Team Summit on January 5, 2021. Posted in Archive 2020, Athlete Of The Month.

Ella Kirschner is December's Athlete of the Month. She is a Mogul skier in our Academy program and goes to Summit Middle School. She arrives at training early every day with a huge smile as well as friendly and welcoming interactions with all of her teammates. She works hard at making the improvements her coaches are looking for all while enjoying the environment she is in. With the unique challenges of this season, Ella came up with the idea of making the ribbons and medals that are lacking this season after all of the competitions. Ella has taken on the task of...

Alpine Age Class Updates – January 4th, 2021

Written by Team Summit on January 4, 2021. Posted in Alpine Update, Archive 2021.

Alpine Age Class Email – January 4th, 2021 Dear Age Class Parents, Team Summit Alpine Coaches and Interested Parties: A Happy New Year in 2021 to all! The race season is scheduled to start for our Age Class Athletes in a week from today and there remains much uncertainty with only a few days to go. The Age Class Open races Team Summit was approved to host in Keystone January 10 and 11 are in the process of being moved to Breckenridge. While Vail Resorts and the County have not provided approval, we are HOPEFUL that this will come in the next few days. In...

December 31st, 2020 Newsletter

Written by Team Summit on December 31, 2020. Posted in Archive 2020, Newsletters.

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Executive Director's New Years Address – December 31st, 2020

Written by Team Summit on December 31, 2020. Posted in Admin Message, Archive 2020.

Executive Director's New Years Address

Snowboard Updates – December 30th, 2020

Written by Team Summit on December 30, 2020. Posted in Archive 2020.

Snowboard Updates – December 30th, 2020 As the holiday training comes to a close competitions begin. I want to remind everyone of the three ways parents can help their kids be good competitors, good people, and good snowboarders. Many of our contests are judged events. Judged events are quite subjective. What scores well one day might not score so well the next event. A kid can place well one week and not so well the next. Sometimes kids place poorly with their best performances and place well with mediocre performances. The three points...

Cleans, also Snatch, are Jumps….Not Back Extensions

Written by Team Summit on December 29, 2020. Posted in Archive 2020.

Cleans, also Snatch, are Jumps….Not Back Extensions During the clean and the snatch the bar should always move in a mostly vertical line above your feet. At no point should the bar move in front of your toes nor behind your heels. If you find yourself having trouble keeping the bar in this plane, then you might be using either back extension or hips driving forward towards the bar rather than a jumping movement throughout the second pull (when the bar is explosively moving from just above your knees all the way up to the crease). There is a simple fix to keep the bar moving in a...

Alpine Updates – December 17th, 2020

Written by Team Summit on December 17, 2020. Posted in Alpine Update, Archive 2020.

Alpine Updates – December 17th, 2020 It has come to our attention that some members are experiencing problems receiving Team Summit messages originating in Campminder. This appears to be affecting primarily gmail addresses and may be related to the Google outages reported this week. Our apologies for this problem. It has been reported and will hopefully be resolved quickly In the meantime, this message is being sent from Campminder and will be re-sent via regular email to the same distribution list. Our apologies to those who receive multiple, duplicate copies of these...