Loads of snow and tech clinic.

Well its been snowing on and off all week and up high there's tons of it. Lots of wind too though so expect some pretty serious avalanche risk if you're heading away from the controlled areas. Areas of Le Tour are particularly risky with the present conditions so pick your lines carefully when ducking the ropes.

I'm running a Tech clinic this week which is going very well. So far we've been to Le Tour where we started the week with a run through the science behind snowboard technique in a guided discovery fashion. We worked through how the board works, how the line you take works with the terrain and controls your speed with out skidding and then looked at the bio mechanics of the body and the movements we need to make to bend and turn the board by design rather than by force.

We've had a fair few white out days this week, Flegere with fresh snow but bad visability, Grand Montets again with fresh snow and bad vis in the afternoon. Courmayeur with prefect pistes and great conditions and today with stormy weather everywhere we ended up in Les Houches where we had a great day perfecting technique with everyone making great progress.

I'm always amazed at how little people know about snowboard technique and how much and how quickly things change as their understanding grows. Yesterday and today we looked a little bit at some advanced technique such as the cross under edge change turn for steeper terrain and general freeriding. Everyone has made great progress and all are well on the road to a high level of riding.

I also did a little video feedback today, the first time they have seen themselves riding since making the new changes and I think they were all pretty surprised at how good they actually looked.

I'm pretty happy with how things have progressed and we have one more day left tomorrow and loads of fresh snow up in the hills so lets just hope everything opens up and we can get up there and get at it.

All is good in Chamonix!

Neil.