Freeride All Mountain and Park Skiing for the advanced 11-18 year olds

Call it Freeriding, call it New School or Freestyle, or just call it skiing.
Freeriding is about being an all-around skier able to ski the whole mountain including powder and the park. The focus is on fun and safety.
Jumps and Bumps is for the intermediate skier ages 9-11, that wants an introduction to Freeride
Our coach is Chance Healey who has Level 1 CFSA, and NCCP Level 2 certification

Program	Bumps & Jumps	Freeride
Ages	9-11	11-16
Skier Ability	Lower Intermediate	Intermediate
Time	10-3 Sundays	9-3 Saturday and Sundays
Cost	$175	$300

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Freeride Coach Chance Healy 635-5051

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Shames Mtn Freeride Team 2007 Video

Welcome to the Shames Mountain Ski Club’s FreeRide Program, 2009!

The Freeride Program is for children 11 years and older. The goal of this program is for our participants to become competent all round skiers. The FreeRide program focuses on training on all appratus in the terrain park (jumps, rails, ect) as well as freeskiing, powder skiing and moguls, competeing in various events local and provincial in disciplines from big air(aierals), slopestyle, moguls, ect, based on what the athlete is interested in competing in. Skiers will be taught proper ski technique through drills, games and freeskiing.

1. The program runs over the Christmas holidays, Spring break, and Saturdays and Sundays. The participants will start skiing December 20th 2008. Our coach is Chance Healey. Chance is a certified Canadian Ski Alliance coach with many years of coaching experience.

2. The club has a 16 seat van; Alpine and Freeride participants can get transportation to and from the hill. Meet at McDonald’s at 8:20 Saturday and Sunday mornings, the van will arrive back at McDonalds around 16:30. There will be the odd occasion when the van will not be available, you will notified of these days.

3. Your child will be assigned a locker in the clubhouse where she/he can store their equipment. The clubhouse is locked when not in use. Some kids choose to lock their locker, they will have to supply their own lock. The clubhouse will be open during training days it is equipped with a microwave and clothes dryer. If you child needs to retrieve equipment on non training days a key is available at the front desk.

4. The club will be participating in three competitions:

…(dates of competitions yet to be announced)…….as well as competing in local events at Shames and Smithers, dates and events yet to be announced.

The club subsidizes a good proportion of the costs but approximately half will be up to the parents to fund. Costs per race are variable and will be collected prior to leaving for the race. At least two parent chaperones are required to travel, their costs will be covered by the club.

5. While children are in the program there will be no out of bounds skiing. Some afternoons participants in the Program will be allowed to “free ski”, (ie. ski without supervision of the coach). It is each parent’s discretion whether or not they allow their child to ski “out of bounds”. Out of bounds skiing is not encouraged by the club. The club will take no responsibility for lost or hurt children while skiing out of bounds.

6. FreeRide = no uniforms, but helmets must be worn at all times, and mouth guards are reccomneded for training, regular ski equipment can be used, however as athletes progress they may want to upgrade to twin tip skis. Used equipment can be found at the Ski swap in November.

7. The Ski Club makes $500-$700 from the sale of BC Alpine lottery tickets (grand prize is a SUV!). Each family is expected to sell at least one book of tickets.

8. The Shames Mountain Ski club has a formal behavior code and all participants are expected to behave in an appropriate manner while representing the club. As the oldest participants in the program the Freeride skiers are often looked up to by the younger children, they should present themselves as positive role models by being helpful, respectful and courteous to other children, coaches, and parents. Bad behavior can result in a suspension of travel or training privileges.