Jumping News

  • Plan for Tuesday 3-1-16 February 29, 2016
    INFORMATION FOR THE 2&3 DAY PROGRAM:
    Location:   Dartmouth Skiway, Lyme, NH
    Time:  3:45-4:45
    Technique:  skate skiing
    Wax Recommendation: what you have on is fine
    Upcoming Event/Race: The BKL Festival is this weekend! An email with more details will come out soon.
    NOTES: The only snow in town is at the base of the Dartmouth Ski Way and since the Dartmouth team will be practicing on it on Thursday, WE will practice on it tomorrow! Oh yeah!  Join us for some fun there tomorrow. It might be our last day on snow! We know it will take longer for our Norwich/Hanover skiers, so note the timing! BANQUET: We will celebrate this wild and wacky season, our coaches, skiers, families and support staff with our annual Ford Sayre Nordic Banquet on Monday night, March 14, from 5-7pm at the Black Recreation Center. THERE IS NO SCHOOL that day in the Dresden school district so your kids can spend the day helping to make the food you bring to the banquet! Perfect! Ursula has put together a google doc here where you can sign up to bring food and help with various jobs. NOTE that there are two tabs on the google doc: one for volunteering, one for food! BKL FESTIVAL THIS WEEKEND: A complete organizational email for the festival will come out on Thursday. At this point, we have 41 Ford Sayre skiers participating! Cheers, Ashley and Peter    Continue reading →
  • Practice plan for March 1: One Day a Week Program February 29, 2016

    INFORMATION FOR THE 1 DAY BKL PROGRAM:

    Location:  Garipay Fields (9 Reservoir Road, Hanover)
    Time: 3:30-4:30
    Technique: Dryland
    Forecast:  Mid 30s

    The grass is green(ish) and the fields are dry(ish). If your child is up for another day of running around in the fields and playing games, please send them to practice in their running shoes (or boots, if you prefer).  As always, all of our practices are optional — but, please drop me a note if your child doesn’t plan to come.

    We had so much fun with your children last week – scavenger hunts, capture the flag, soccer, freeze tag, and more! Thanks for sending them with such positive attitudes!

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    Ford Sayre – End of Year Banquet, Friday, March 11: 

    Our celebratory End-of-the-Year Banquet is Friday, March 11, from 6:00-7:30 at the Black Center in Hanover. We hope as many of you as possible will be able to attend!  More details to come. 

    Pictures from this “winter”?  If you have pictures from the season, please share them with me! If we have enough, we will try to create an end-of-year slideshow. : )

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  • Woodstock Sweetheart Race is On! — A Great Race for First Timers February 26, 2016

    The Woodstock Sweetheart Race is on! Everyone is welcome and encouraged to give this race a try! Costumes, sparkles and fairy wings are encouraged and might actually make you faster. See flier for more information.

    The Woodstock nordic club has partnered up with Suicide Six so that the nordic community can host a simple, low-key, fun race tomorrow on a 1/2 kilometer man-made loop. It will be the perfect event to enjoy winter on a beautiful day and hop into a fun race without even leaving the Upper Valley.  Registration will be on-site tomorrow and begins at 9:30. $10/racer but Lollipoppers are FREE. Lollipoppers (untimed racers, up to grade 2) go off at 11:00 with the rest of the timed age groups (1/2, 3/4, 5/6, 7/8) heading out afterwards. Skiers can ski the course before 11, but there will be no skiing besides the races after 11. Let us know you will be coming by putting your name on our Race Planning Doc here.photo

    Our Ford Sayre kids can wear tutus with style (Photo: 2015).
    Come join us for some fun on snow tomorrow!

     

    As a reminder, next weekend is the Bill Koch League Festival at Great Glen Trails (at the bottom of Mt. Washington and with the best views ever of the northern Presidential Range). The Festival is a wonderful gathering of youth skiers and their families from throughout New England and upstate New York. Some kids go for the racing, some kids go for the plethora of non-racing events (tours, hot cocoa, ski games…). Everyone goes for the fun and a chance to celebrate being outside and active in a northern New England winter. And of course there is just the excitement of hanging around with all your friends on an overnight trip with many other Upper Valley families. Please be sure to note that the final registration deadline is this SATURDAY at 5:00 PM.  Do not forget that we are in the CEVT (Central Vermont) District. Register here.

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    Ford Sayre skiers participating in the 2015 BKL Festival
    Let me know if you have any questions about either of these races!
    Aricca; bkl.one.day@fordsayre.org; 603-715-7233

     

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  • Woops. Two Video Links February 26, 2016

    Glide Waxing here

    Scraping here. Go to 6:22

     

     

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  • Woodstock Sweetheart Race On! A Great Chance for First-Time Racers! February 26, 2016

    Woodstock is on! Everyone is welcome and encouraged to give this race a try! Costumes, sparkles and fairy wings are encouraged and might actually make you faster. See flier for more.

    The race will be at the Suicide Six Alpine area in Woodstock. Registration begins at 9:30. $10/racer but Lollipoppers are FREE. Lollipoppers go off at 11:00 with the rest of the age groups (2, 3/4, 5/6, 7/8) heading out afterwards.

    Skiers can ski the course before 11, but there will be no skiing besides the races after 11.

    Let us know you will be coming by putting your name on our Race Planning Doc here.

    Hope to see you there!

    Ashley & Peter

    WAXING:

    CH8 glide wax.

    This is a good, simple explanation for applying/ironing on glide wax

    For instructions on how to scrape the skis after applying glide wax, go here and forward to minute 6:22

     

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