Dryland Training Continues...

With 4 weeks now till Cory is back on snow, he continues to do some dryland training 4 or 5 times per week. He has increased the intensity of his routines now, focusing on building his leg strength and developing quicker feet.

At the end of last ski season, one of Cory's coaches - Sammy Kent - suggested that he work on building his strength during the off-season so that he can maximize the use of a skill that he developed well last year - a more dynamic body action.

A dynamic downward-moving body places more pressure onto the skis, providing not just more edge pressure for cleaner carving, but builds pressure under the ski, which when released at the end of a turn, propels a racer forward. Race skis are very stiff so when pressure is applied downward, the skis bounce back. Just like a trampoline.

So for dryland, he's been doing some Wall Jumps to build leg strength...first on both feet,




then adding weights, and then switching to one foot jumps:



Onto some Cone Hops:



And finally the gruelling Leg Blasters:




Cory now plays basketball once a week and does some weight training with a Special Olympics coach once a week as well. And with an important bowling tournament coming up in mid-March - the first step towards making it back to the Summer National Games - he continues to work on his 5 Pin Bowling too. But the main focus is certainly on 2 days in early March, where all this dryland work, and his on-snow training starting in four weeks, will hopefully culminate in a National Championship and a ticket to Pyeongchang, South Korea in 2013.

Next stop - Loveland Colorado, at Bob Vial's Hurricane Race Camp.