FWT

Having skied most of my life, and having adopted skiing into my life as more than just a hobby, I figured I ought to try some sort of competition to gauge my skillset that I've been developing over the past 25+ years. The Freeskiing World Tour Snowbird stop seemed like a perfect opportunity, so when registration came around, I went for it. Registration started at 10am, and within 3 minutes or less, the event was filled. Fully prepared with my credit card info already pasted to my clipboard, and somewhat acceptable web navigation skills, I was one of the lucky ones to claim a spot. That was the easy part. Now I had to start skiing to get ready for this trial. Just one problem... With a work week of 50-60 hours, finding time to ski was going to be tough.

So, 'training' began early fall, wrapping up soccer season, cutting out sugary soda, skiing West Baldy at every opportunity, and thinking a lot about skiing. Also had a good warm up at the Salomon Extreme Skiing Comp at Taos, NM, where I qualified in 10th, Semi'd in 20th, and ended up in 14th in the Finals.

To get to the point, I had a good qualifier run, putting me in 5th for my heat. A couple days later, I had a good run on Silver Fox, but had a bobble that cost me a spot in the finals. Also, my line score was a little low, so gotta work on that for next time. Not bad though for having never hit any of those drops, and feeling like I was out of my element. Ended up in 40th, and the top 35 went onto the finals. Here's my run, thanks to Nick for recording it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-slhYWG-9k

More to come, including the 'training' that went down to get to this spot.