Fine Tuning with One Week to Go

With just one week to go before Cory competes at the Provincial Games at Sun Peaks, he headed to Whistler for one more day of Slalom training with Whistler Adaptive Sports Programs.  WASP had set up a nice long course and Cory worked on fine-tuning his starts and his finishes, while being quite cautious in the rest of the course so as to avoid any chance of injury.

Nice strong push off at the start...






But the touchdown at finish needs a bit of work.  This is something new for Cory.  Reaching down with his hand is a way to stop the time clock a fraction of a second earlier than it would otherwise and as Cory knows, hundies (hundredths of a second) matter.  He won the Super G at the last Provincial Games by only 13/100ths of a second over two runs, with one run only 2/100ths of a second.

But he's not reaching quite far enough down here at the finish line...




Later, he removes his jacket and ski pants to train in the same conditions - just a race suit - as he will be racing in next week.  It wasn't a cold day but still a chilly ride back up on the long Garbonzo chair to the top of Ptarmigan.  He understands that he must be ready for any conditions in order to perform at his best at the Provincials.

And his touchdown improves by the end of his day.





Cory is also trying to improve his tuck, getting into a lower position by bending his knees more, trying to get his thighs parallel to the snow - he's close here.  And he's been working on keeping his hands higher in order to become more aerodynamic.





So our next post will be with results from his first race next Friday.  This is it!  It's Cory's time to put all his training into action!