February 2010 Newsletter
ASC freestyle competition and evening fun race, Glenshee 6th March
A fun race and the club championships, run as part of the Glenshee Performance Squad Night
Race is
taking place on Saturday 6th
March. The programme is as
follows:
under the lights on Claybokie –
meet at 4pm for a start around 5pm (subject to closing the piste and course
setting).
Results will be on a best run
basis and will be split into clubs so that the club trophies can be
presented. Categories will be by age
depending on the level of entries. It is
open to skiers and boarders. At the prizegiving, there is also a dinner
organised in the main Café from 7.30pm
There will be no cost for the racing, but all racers
must be members of ASC or another GPS club.
The meal will cost £10 per head for adults and £6 for children. The bar
will be open for drinks etc.
If you are
interested in attending, you need to register your name with Steven Gray by
Wednesday 3rd March at 7pm at stevengray@me.com.
Prior to the races, Nicol Stephen will be hosting a freestyle session/competition at the Junkyard – Glenshee’s new freestyle
park, next to Butcharts. This will be at
2pm, with a meeting time of 1.30pm. Let us know if you plan on coming up and we
will be able to give you more information. stevengray@me.com
Mike Pilarski,
British Olympic Team Coach and ex-ASC racer will be at Glenshee on 6th
March where he will be available to provide coaching to our future ski
stars. Starts at 11am until the race at
4pm, costing £20 for the day. Any
trainees interested, please contact stevengray@me.com.
Places are limited so book early.
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Scottish Masters Races
13th & 14th March sees
Glenshee hosting the Scottish Masters
slalom and GS event. It is open to
everyone over the age of 30. Just turn up to the Cairnwell run and register on the
day. In the true spirit of Scottish
Masters racing you get a rusty nail if you finish, and two if you don’t!
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Bairns Bucket (races for those born 1999 and later)
On 20th March, ASC members will be
competing in the Bairns Bucket, Scottish Championships ski race at Cairngorm. There will be a coach available to help
throughout the day. Any skiers born 1999
or earlier wishing to come along, please contact stevengray@me.com as soon as possible.
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Club Holiday
Only 4 weeks till the club holiday! Way
hey!! If you haven’t made your holiday plans, I’m afraid this year’s club
holiday is already sold out, but we are beginning to organise next year’s
holiday for the first week in Easter 2011 (Departing 2nd April 2011), so if you
are at all interested in finding out more, drop us an email at info@aberdeensnowsportsclub.org.
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Scottish FIS championships
Can’t get enough of the Olympic skiing action? Want
to see Slalom and Giant Slalom live? The Scottish Champs which is a FIS, full international
standard race will take place this weekend 27th/28th
February on Glas Maol, Glenshee.
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Race training
on Thursday evenings at Garthdee
Aberdeen Snowsport Centre is starting Thursday night ski race training from 5pm to 7pm. The first session is 4th March, with British
Children’s Team ski coach Dave Jacobs taking the training. Each 2 hour session costs £5, and is open to
all good parallel skiers. Please contact
the centre on 01224 810215 to register your interest.
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Club clothing
Club clothing selling fast. With T shirts selling for £9 and hoodies at £19,
these are proving to be really popular, so don’t miss out the chance to get
these exclusive tops. http://www.aberdeensnowsportsclub.org/documents/clothingorderform.pdf
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John Clark BMW/East of Scotland Races
The John
Clark BMW/East of Scotland champs were a huge success - 104 competitors from all over the UK.
Thanks to all those who helped. The sponsor lent the event a BMW X5 for the weekend.
Peter Ritchie has not been seen since. Click on the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K_G-hFiRoo
and check out the action.
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Lecht Bairns
ASC groms were successfully competing at the Lecht Bairns last month. Click here for the results http://thegoatpost.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/lecht-bairns-race-results/
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Lowlander results
All the results from the Lowlander champs have now been placed on the website, which you can
see by clicking here (Adrian to hyperlink).
Well done to all the ASC athletes who are cleaning up in each
competition
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ASC bus runs again!
The first ASC bus in many years ran to the
Lecht on Saturday 6th Feb - with 43 people! Chris our conductor did
everything except drive the bus!
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Glenshee Performance Squad
is having a superb season without missing a day so far
since it started on 3rd Jan. The early crowds at the snow resorts of the first
few weeks have settled down and all the gremlins have finally left the lifts
(at Glenshee at least) - so its high mileage riding now.
GPS is running an easter camp at Glenshee. If anyone interested in
performance coaching at Glenshee at easter, please email stevengray@me.com.
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Mid-summer slide on Scottish snow
We are planning to resurrect the historic ASC mid-summer slide on the Allt an
t-Schnechda on Beinn a' Bhuird, above Braemar. (Its called the
"snow burn" for good
reason). A Saturday in June will be
confirmed soon. You’ll need to bring your shorts/bikini/waterproofs,
a 4x4, hiking boots, your choice of snow sliding kit, food, & beer,
friends, family, and sense of humour.
Let us know if you are interested in coming along info@aberdeensnowsportsclub.org
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A home for us at Glenshee
Scottish Ski Club have offered us
their hut at Glenshee
so we are currently looking at a summer crew of volunteers to help fix the
roof, over a weekend and give us a club
hut at Glenshee. If you fancy helping out let us know. info@aberdeensnowsportsclub.org
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