Just got back from two weeks at Mt. Hood Summer Ski camp. The cool thing about this camp is you can train both ski racing and freestyle without changing locations. The bad thing is that thier race training is a lot better than the freestyle.  I made a lot of progress with my race skiing, especially my slalom. When you're a J5 in Far West, you run slalom on stubbies. As a 1st year J4 next year, I have to run full size gates and they really got me ready for that.  The second week there, I trained freestyle.  I didn't get that much better though.  All they told me was jump higher or get more sideways but I really didn't know what they meant by that.  I was hoping to learn to slide a downhill rail and throw a five.  The only new thing I learned was a swithc 180. Next year I'll probably go to camps that only specialize in one thing like Tichy for racing and Windell's for freestyle.

 Just got back from two weeks at Mt. Hood Summer Ski camp. The cool thing about this camp is you can train both ski racing and freestyle without changing locations. The bad thing is that thier race training is a lot better than the freestyle.  I made a lot of progress with my race skiing, especially my slalom. When you're a J5 in Far West, you run slalom on stubbies. As a 1st year J4 next year, I have to run full size gates and they really got me ready for that.  The second week there, I trained freestyle.  I didn't get that much better though.  All they told me was jump higher or get more sideways but I really didn't know what they meant by that.  I was hoping to learn to slide a downhill rail and throw a five.  The only new thing I learned was a swithc 180. Next year I'll probably go to camps that only specialize in one thing like Tichy for racing and Windell's for freestyle.