Athletic Directions
Information
October 2006
Winter 05-06
Rode Wax
Final Words
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Racing Issues
Issues about changing climate, snow, trail grooming, and race management should be open for wider constructive discussions among coaches. Coach’s and athlete’s demands for higher overall standards should be respected in very near future.
It is characteristic of racing that technical
What Pavol Sees
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Quebec Cup - La Tuque,
The Quebec Cup Finals in LaTuque were organized but held on marginal snow conditions, and we were lucky to be able to have enough snow for the event.
The general lack of respect for rules means that the organizers were lucky that nothing happened on ski trails that impeded
The Jakl Report
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
The Pre-Nationals Tune up!
Here a few pictures from the Western Canada Nordic Ski Society Pre-national camp (with ADSC skier Heather!). An objective was to tune up the shape of our athletes for the Nationals. So the athletes trained for 14 hours over five days. The skiing was done mostly at
The Masters Tales
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
The "Keski 16km Experience
(Sandy) Considering I didn't have our expert waxing technician and coach, Pavol, I managed to do OK with the grip wax. Naturally, I consulted with Joe the evening before to get a few tips and, thankfully, he mentioned that if I have no grip while warming up....add
On-Snow Training Camps
Thursday, November 16, 2006
The importance of early training ‘on snow’ for winter competition is well known to Athletic Directions, and both western and eastern groups headed off on November 10 to start skiing. The season starts on snow.
In western Canada, Petr and Heather were at Silver Star where temperatures were -2 °C
Pavol: Well, It’s like this.....
Pavol
Walking
Running
Flexibility
Core Strength
Balance
Rhythm
General Agility
General Strength
Reaction Speed
Aerobic Abilities
Locomotion Stability
Endurance
Specific Strength
Specific Agility
Speed in Repetitive Motion
Anaerobic Abilities
VO2 Max
Lactic Acid Tolerance
Petr: The view from southern BC
Petr
