Practice Makes Perfect, or at Least Better

The season's gotten off to a good start so far. The coaches have some sort of rotating schedule; still not sure who is going to be the coach at each practice but they've committed to having two coaches there each time. That's nice, it makes it so they can start practice together then divide and conquer so to speak. From what I hear, usually part of the team goes to the park to work on skills there and the other part heads to the top of the mountain to work on a different set of skills. Surprisingly Whitney has been going to the park  recently. Some nights she has a choice, sometimes she doesn't. I asked her about it and she said she's working on her jumps/landings and in her free time she's working on other skills (carving, speed) on the mountain. She rode with Scott one night last week and she said that he was surprised at how much better she's gotten since last season when he saw her (he had knee surgery just after Christmas last year and hasn't seen her ride since then).

She's signed up for the first Appalachian Series BX at Wintergreen next Sunday. There's at least one boy from the Massanutten team signed up and there's two more thinking about it; looks like there's a good chance a coach will be going along with them. I'll need to talk to them about that. February will be a busy month with lots of racing, then we head into March, the end of the season here but Nationals are on the horizon at the end of the month. Snowboard season always goes by fast!