World Cup Racing Starts This Sunday 25th October.

The first World Cup races of the 2009/2010 season are this coming weekend.
Both races are in Solden, Austria with the women's GS on the Saturday and
the men's GS on the Sunday. Both legs of each race are covered live on
Eurosport.

Racer Ready Top Golf Fundraising Event

Racer Ready Magazine are running a fundraising golf event for a number of our best young UK skiers (including our own Nick Robinson). The date is the evening of 3rd November with the venue being the Top Golf driving range in Addlestone.

This is not a normal Golf driving range and participants do not need to be keen golfers. It is more like 10 pin bowling in the way it is scored. The website for Top Golf is http://www.topgolf.co.uk/Locations/UK/Surrey/Default.aspx

The idea is that people pay £20 to play either on their own or as part of a team (£75 for a team of four), to compete for the Top Golf / Racer Ready Golf Challenge Trophy. There will also be a raffle on the night as well to help swell the money raised.All profit from the night (the only cost is the price charged by Top Golf for the lanes and a few nibbles) is then divided out between the skiers to try and raise some money for their training costs.I suggest we try and submit a few Aldershot teams (adults & children welcome) and therefore please let Ali Hardaway (our own resident golf pro) or Kevin Wheeler know if you are interested either individually or if you have a suitable team alistair.hardaway121@hotmail.co.uk.

Once we know the numbers interested we can then try & put teams together, etc.

Missing Coat

Do you have a small orange and blue ski coat lying around that you do not recognise. If so it may well be Jake Shemman's so please have a word with Maddy.

Pontypool Videos Now on You Tube

All the Pontypool Welsh Cup and British Championship videos have now been posted on You Tube.

To view all ASRC videos just search for “ASRC2009”.
To view all Pontypool videos search “ASRC2009 Pontypool”
To view particular runs add run number, ie: “ASRC2009 Pontypool run 1”
To view individual racers search by adding initials to above, ie: “ASRC2009 Pontypool WW”

ASRC Racers on You Tube

We intend to do more video recording of our racers at both the races and at training so that our coaches can provide more video feedback. It may also help resolve any marshalling controversies at important races (see the Welsh Cup Report).

One of the problems with this is finding sufficient/suitable time for the coaches to watch the videos and provide the feedback. To help resolve this issue Kevin Wheeler has kindly set up an ASRC “Youtube “ account where the individual videos can be posted and then the coaches and racers can view them in their own time. The proposal is to mark all videos with the title “ASRC2009”, the date of the event and the initials of the racer, this means that they are not easily found by anybody simply browsing but can be easily found by our racers and coaches.

So that we don’t have to spend considerable time logging permissions to do this, can you simply send me an email if you don’t give permission or object to you/your childrens videos being posted to the “youtube” account.

SRSA Winter Race Series

For those who remember the Southampton Winter Series which ran last winter, this has now been expanded to include the slopes at Christchurch and Aldershot. For the Aldershot races we will run the race in conjunction with the monthly race. More details on race format will follow but as the first race is quite close, if you want to take part then please let me know as I will need all names in by the Wednesday before each race. For the moment though, the race dates are as follows:-

25th Oct - Southampton Alpine Club
14th November - Christchurch
6th December - Aldershot
7th Feb - Aldershot
7th March - Southampton Alpine Club
27th March - Christchurch