Under 12/14 Weekend Holiday Program

ESSENTIALS/FUNDAMENTALS – Designed specifically for children who show a keen inclination towards racing and demonstrate strong ion to structured competition.

LEARN TO TRAIN – Designed for athletes who are looking to further develop their ski racing skills.

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Under 12/14 Years

Weekend Holiday Program

The program includes the full weekend (Saturday and Sunday), and the full two weeks of the July school holidays, including ski races days at Mt Hutt, but not including race entry fees.

Coaches are available to attend all Interfields (U12 & U14), National Points (U14) and Youth Cup (U14) races held at Mt Hutt only. Excludes race entry fees. Away-races will incur additional costs to cover expenses, which will be billed back to the attending athletes, and each event will be discussed.

This program is geared for the young skier that learns through fun, skill challenge, and guided discovery. This program accepts skiers with an ability to demonstrate full parallel turns on Morning Glory and Broadway – must be able to load & ride the chairlifts unaided.

The focus is training as one team with individual goals. Preparation through technical skills, the FUN-damentals of ski training and progression to competition.

This program will also introduce tactics, multiple disciplines, race day preparation and process. The skills from previous levels are expanded and adapted in training situations that offer the athlete both fun and challenge. Coaches will bring the focus towards developing the athletes skiing and race skills.

This is a Ski Fundamentals program focused on development of a strong athletic/ balanced stance, pole use, skills drills, and terrain challenge. Development of turn shape and steering skills may incorporate drill courses. This program will also introduce jumping skills, training structure, and race process. Athletes are encouraged to develop individual responsibility and personal independence.

Additional mid-week training is available by arrangement with the Program Director at a cost of $125pp/day for Team Hutt members, subject to numbers and availability, however if you wish to train additional midweek days on a regular basis, then please sign up to the 4 day program or discuss this with the Program Director.

We encourage all parents to take out their own insurance for unforeseen circumstances. We DO NOT provide refunds for the program. This includes, but not limited to, sickness, injury, weather, mountain closure, pandemic, family issues, or exclusions from the program resulting from breach of our Code of Conduct.

All programs are based on age, but athletes may be grouped based on individual ability and groups may be paired together based on numbers.

*Program Times: The daily scheduled training times are an outline, and may be subject to change based on weather, safety, athlete fatigue, or mountain closure. If the mountain is open, we will endeavour to operate for a minimum of one hour and a maximum of five hours.

For more information contact the Team Hutt Program Director Chris Mosaed.