Time to Climb!
Climbing is the best sport for focus, fun, and time with family and friends!
Learning how to rock climb is easy and rewarding with NASTC’s certified guides. Or improve upon your intermediate or advanced skills! NASTC offers private rock climbing lessons and guiding on Donner Summit in Truckee. Donner Summit has world class granite that is ideal for climbing and you will get big views of the Tahoe Basin with each climb.
Rock climbing is a great way to get away from the crowds on busy weekends and find some relaxation in the outdoors with friends and family. Call 530-386-2102 or email [email protected] to book a guide! We have two-hour, half-day (4hrs) and full-day (7hrs) time slots available.
Time to Ski!
For 22 great years we have been taking intermediate/advanced/expert ski groups to Portillo, Chile. We always go the 3rd week of August, because that’s the best time.
Every summer, the group is filled with more than half NASTC alumni! Portillo is addictive!
You’ll ski with a NASTC trainer (members of the regional or national PSIA Alpine Team) in a small group of 5 or fewer all week, from Saturday-Saturday. Your skiing improves as you have a blast skiing the breathtaking Andes!
Enjoy the finest food, wines, and hotel amenities to round out a truly relaxing trip of a lifetime.
Book now: [email protected]
530-386-2102
Office for Lease
Office spaces available now at the NASTC suite of offices at 10710 Donner Pass Rd #100, Truckee, CA.
New, market-rent priced, private, fully furnished, turn-key, quiet and professional office environment. Super good parking and easy walk to Downtown Truckee. Good visibility on Donner Pass Road, wifi, wheelchair accessible, kitchen, storage.
2 options: private room OR communal desk
More info/prices: [email protected]
Its that time people. Call us now to save your spot. “Paradise on earth” is how we describe Portillo, Chile! 2016 is our 22nd season taking a group of 20-25 skiers down to ski with our TOP NOTCH instructors in August! Whether intermediate, advanced or expert – we have a group for you! It’s an easy, over-night flight, and just 3-hour time change. You ski the day you land! Enjoy skiing right out your door at the grand Hotel Portillo (some call it the “cruise ship of the Andes”), with lifts taking you high up the sides of dramatic 15,000’ peaks. Then ski down towards glacier-blue Lake Inca or traverse under the ropes into huge, untracked bowls. With 15 lifts, 30+ runs, and all the snow of a maritime mt range, we have skied light powder, ego corn, or groomed corduroy every year! Your skiing WILL improve as you sew your seasons together by giving yourself the training opportunity of a lifetime! Delicious food in the beautiful dining room and fun evenings round out yo! ur ski training vacation.
August 13-20, 2016
$5495 includes: 7 nights lodging, meals, lift tickets, all day small group instruction, hotel amenities, evening events, ground transportation RT from Santiago.
Call NASTC for help with your flight too!
AIARE Level 2
There is still time to get your avalanche education in this season! Especially with new snow, we’re still teaching! NASTC has another AIARE L2 and L1 coming up – contact our office for dates and availability!
16 Things to Know Before You Go Ski Touring https://www.wildsnow.com/18797/ski-touring-things-know-list/
New to backcountry skiing? Excited to get out there? The guides and pros at NASTC can help you learn the basics and enjoy a day in the backcountry this spring! We have privates and groups going out often – call or text the office to hear more: 530-386-2102.
From our friends at Wild Snow.com, here’s a great set of simple tips for newcomers:
YOUR SUMMER TO GO TO PORTILLO, CHILE
Its that time people. Call us now to save your spot. “Paradise on earth” is how we describe Portillo, Chile! 2016 is our 22nd season taking a group of 20-25 skiers down to ski with our TOP NOTCH instructors in August! Whether intermediate, advanced or expert – we have a group for you! It’s an easy, over-night flight, and just 3-hour time change. You ski the day you land! Enjoy skiing right out your door at the grand Hotel Portillo (some call it the “cruise ship of the Andes”), with lifts taking you high up the sides of dramatic 15,000’ peaks. Then ski down towards glacier-blue Lake Inca or traverse under the ropes into huge, untracked bowls. With 15 lifts, 30+ runs, and all the snow of a maritime mt range, we have skied light powder, ego corn, or groomed corduroy every year! Your skiing WILL improve as you sew your seasons together by giving yourself the training opportunity of a lifetime! Delicious food in the beautiful dining room and fun evenings round out yo! ur ski training vacation.
August 13-20, 2016
$5495 includes: 7 nights lodging, meals, lift tickets, all day small group instruction, hotel amenities, evening events, ground transportation RT from Santiago.
Call NASTC for help with your flight too!
NASTC’s 22nd Year at Portillo, 5% off now til April 15
AIARE Level 2
There is still time to get your avalanche education in this season! Especially with new snow, we’re still teaching! NASTC has another AIARE L2 and L1 coming up – contact our office for dates and availability!
16 Things to Know Before You Go Ski Touring
New to backcountry skiing? Excited to get out there? The guides and pros at NASTC can help you learn the basics and enjoy a day in the backcountry this spring! We have privates and groups going out often – call or text the office to hear more: 530-386-2102.
From our friends at Wild Snow.com, here’s a great set of simple tips for newcomers:
Saturday April 2 FREE Demo Day on Donner Summit
THIS SATURDAY The Tahoe Sports Hub and NASTC are offering a free backcountry demo day on Donner Summit. The event will take place at the former location of Sugar Bowl Academy at the top of Old Highway 40 on Donner Summit.
The event will offer participants the chance to try out the newest technology in backcountry ski and snowboard equipment on a short skin track in the backcountry. Equipment from Jones, K2, G3, Dynafit, and others will be available for demo. Skiers and snowboarders who are new to backcountry travel are invited to try skinning or split-boarding for the first time. Participants will also have the opportunity to learn avalanche safety basics and practice using avalanche beacons.
The professional guides from NASTC will offer guided introductory group tours at 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. and representatives from Sierra Avalanche Center will present a “Know Before You Go” avalanche safety presentation at 11:00 a.m. All participants must have advanced ski ! and snowboard skills, sign a waiver, and must carry avalanche safety equipment (beacon, shovel, and probe in a backpack). Tahoe Sports Hub and NASTC will provide avalanche safety equipment, but participants are encouraged to bring any equipment they own. Space and equipment is subject to availability and the event is weather dependent.
Any Q contact Tahoe Sports Hub 530-582-4510 or NASTC 530-386-2102.
Summer Rock Climbing on Donner Summit April-Nov
Summer for NASTC not only means skiing at Portillo, Chile but rock climbing in the beautiful Tahoe weather on Donner Summit, Truckee, CA.
We have a very busy rock climbing school on all summer. There are groups and privates going out all summer. Call to book your day with friends or family or on your own now!
With sunshine like this, climb in April…(although we hope to still be skiing)!
There’s no better place for summer skiing than Portillo.
Portillo is South America’s premiere ski resort, famous for its majestic setting and deep snow. Once you go, you’ll never want to leave. NASTC will be celebrating its 20th season at Portillo. There is a reason we keep going back to this friendly, exclusive and exhilarating resort. Ski down to the glacier-blue Inca Lake or traverse into huge bowls amidst 15,000ft Andean peaks. With 14 lifts, 23 runs and all the snow of a maritime range, Portillo is home to big mountain extremists, world-class racers and everyday carvers; but amidst the social atmosphere of the living room and the late night disco, everyone is equal.
This is one of our favorite courses as Portillo is unlike any other resort in the world. Its majestic Andean setting is weaved amongst Incan folklore and the ultimate in skiing culture and history. The incredible setting and atmosphere of Portillo will lift your soul and capture your heart. Portillo offers its guests world class skiing, dining and lodging. Gastronomy and hospitality are held to the highest standards and the terrain is legendary. Portillo has its own gymnasium, fitness gym, swimming pool, spa, movie theatre and nightclub. You don’t have to leave this Andean paradise for anything; Portillo has it all, in fact you may never want to leave. At Portillo, you become part of the family. You will encounter great camaraderie during your stay and can expect to make lifelong friends as you live, laugh and ski side by side in this Andean treasure.
The NASTC ski training camp addresses the three major components to successful skiing performance: technique, fitness, and equipment. By addressing all 3 components in a full immersion multi-day ski training program you will make substantial improvements to your skiing. The NASTC staff is comprised of the top ski instructors in the United States, members of the PSIA National Alpine Team and the teachers of teachers. Your skiing will improve in a safe, fun, and highly professional way under their watchful eyes. You will ski in small groups with the same instructor all day, all week. Backcountry tour options exist, as does group helicopter skiing. This is the ultimate ski vacation: a superb mountain, fun-loving people, delicious food, fine wine and a beautiful hotel. You are sure to improve, make new friends, and enjoy yourself. Portillo is everyone’s paradise!
Below is a general itinerary for our trip. This schedule may change slightly based on the group, the weather, etc. We will send you an updated itinerary prior to departure. Additionally you will find below suggested equipment and clothing lists. You do not need a visa with an American passport, but you must have a valid passport to travel to Chile – your passport cannot expire within 6 months after your trip. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call us anytime.
ITINERARY
Friday, Aug 14 – Depart from the US (we are able to get relatively inexpensive tickets, let us know if you would like us to book your airfare for you), connections are usually out of Dallas, Atlanta and Miami.
Saturday , Aug 15 – Arrive Santiago approx. 7:30am-8:00am, clear immigration and customs, van departure for Portillo approx. 8:45am. Arrive at Portillo 11:00am-12:00pm, have lunch (optional), pick up lift passes & ski in the afternoon. (this is an easy afternoon as we know you’ll be a bit tired!)
(August 13-20, 2016) Ski Portillo all day every day. Lodging and meals at the beautiful Hotel Portillo, “Onces” Chilean afternoon tea hour, afternoon clinics, video reviews and enjoying the hotel activities and ameniities: Gym, ping pong, aerobics, swimming pool, sauna, massage, bar & disco at the hotel
Sunday, August 16 – Orientation to the mountain/Warm into skiing. Basic skills: stance and balance, drills & exercises. Fundamentals of good skiing. Baseline Video & video review. Pisco Sour welcome reception
Monday, August 17 – Explore the mountain, skill development. Anatomy of the turn, components of adv. skiing, video. Individual feedback. Evening Tech Talk & Video Review
Tuesday, August 18 – Situational skiing (bumps, crud, steeps, powder, etc.) Focus on short turn topics: rotary, edge, pressure as they apply to the short turn. Exploring the mountain for challenging conditions. Individual feedback
Wenesday, August 19 – Free ski day on your own, helicopter skiing or backcountry option (book early).
Thursday, August 20 – Exploring the off-piste: Tactical skiing in the bumps/steeps/crud, drills and exercises for developing off-piste tactics. Video in the off-piste. Personal coaching feedback on free skiing. Video review.
Friday, August 21 – Consolidating your improvement: Feedback on and off-piste and personal drills to use. Free skiing/personal coaching. Wrap-up
Saturday, August 22 – 1/2 day skiing: group’s choice for topic/free-ski option. Depart Portillo for Airport after skiing & lunch. Flights usually depart Santiago airport between 8:30-10:00pm.
Sunday, August 23 – Arrive back in the U.S
*Helicopter skiing is available on Wed (not incl).
NASTC Nation – Want to Ski Well?
Come to a NASTC clinic of course but you can also take some tips from the great ones.
Here’s “5 keys to skiing your fastest on race day”
Check it out:
Wow did it snow hard here in the Sierras this past Thursday, Friday, and Sunday, and there’s more on the way Christmas week! Skiers flocked to the slopes, schools were closed, the sound of plows and avi blasts filled the air, and the trees are heavy with pillows of white stuff. Its gorgeous! Come on up! Every resort is open, the skiing is phenomenal. And there’s more storms on the way!
Come on up to Tahoe and go skiing with NASTC!
New snow means avalanche hazards. If this turns out to be the first big snow year in 4 years, there are many skiers and riders who need to refresh how to ski and ride safely when there are avi hazards.
NASTC has two Level 1 Avalanche Courses: January 16-18 and February 19-21. These are held in Truckee/Donner Summit. We are proud to be an AIARE school.
AIARE (The American Institute for Avalanche Research and Education) develops and disseminates avalanche course materials to avalanche educators in the United States, South America and Europe.
There are over 90 course providers and 300 instructors representing AIARE internationally.
AIARE gathers the latest knowledge, research and ideas in avalanche safety and create avalanche training courses that reflect the needs of today’s backcountry travelers.
AIARE provides ongoing continuing education to our instructor group and instructors maintain currency by attending requisite continuing professional development cou! rses on a regular basis.
AIARE is a nonprofit educational organization operating as such since 1998. Their mission statement is to “Save lives through avalanche education.”
Jan 16-18 and Feb 19-21: NASTC’s AIARE Level 1
International Ski Adventures
SKI JAPAN OR AUSTRIA!
NISEKO, JAPAN
You have got to try the epic, snowy, powdery island of Hokkaido, Japan. This is an internationally ski adventure at its best: stay in a locals’ favorite hotel, eat at carefully chosen restaurants to sample a variety of cuisine and experiences, and ski with instructors who know the mountains super well! This won’t be a secret much longer: when there’s little snow and no pow elsewhere, there always is at Niseko’s four well-developed resorts!
ST ANTON
St Anton is skiers’ paradise! Enjoy stepping out your hotel door in this picturesque village, being swept up to the top of a lift you can’t actually believe they were able to build, and skiing all day from one resort to the next, breaking for delicious lunch and libations along the way! We’ve been taking groups to St Anton for 20 years.
Jan 12-20: Niseko and Feb 20-27: St Anton
Photo of the Week
This week’s photo comes from Chris Fellows who is up in Big Sky, MT for the NASTC Early Season Jumpstart clinic, and the PSIA-NRM event there!
They got snow too!
Big Sky Powder Blast
SkiA Sweetspot Ski Trainer – A MUST HAVE under the Christmas tree!
What does the SkiA Ski Trainer do?
The SkiA Sweetspot Ski Trainer will activate your whole body, and will enhance your balance skills and movement patterns in a unique and highly skiing-specific way.
The trainers are designed to be used with ski boots, which limit free movement of the ankle joints.
Wobble-boards, for example, allow the work of balancing to be carried out by the ankles. On these it’s possible to compensate for almost any position just by movements of the feet and ankles. This isn’t what happens when you stand on solid ground, and it’s certainly not what happens when you ski.
In limiting free movement of the ankle joints, SkiA Ski Trainers closely simulate the balance challenge of skiing. You have to use your whole body to balance. Using them, you will become far more aware of the balance signals coming from your feet – activating and training your sense of proprioception. You will engage your knees and hips; the core muscles of your pelvis, ab! domen and back; and your shoulders and arms. You will even engage your head to remain stable and centred. Your sense of balance can be so finely tuned that even movements of your fingers work to keep you in balance.
Train Balance & Movement Skills
Accurate balance requires highly co-ordinated movement patterns. The SkiA Ski Trainer is the only device that trains your balance and movement skills in this way. To stand on the blocks you have to be in centred balance. You automatically adopt a dynamic centred posture – the posture of a dynamic, centred skier.
The challenge is to remain exactly on target as you flex and extend dynamically. It’s usual for skiers to tip out of balance when flexing downwards or extending back up. The Trainer is unique in enabling you to train both a sophisticated and reproducible sequence of movements, and to stay exactly centred through a full, dynamic range of flexion and extension.
As well as training skills, the Trainer unmistak! eably shows you where to balance. Using it, you will know exac! tly where your target point is, and you will be able to feel this and be aware of it every moment that you ski. Using progressively smaller and smaller blocks, you will be able to refine your sensitivity, and find this target and balance on it with more and more accuracy every time.
How do you use it?
You can use the trainer on any firm surface – such as tiles, wooden floors, carpet, and even firm snow. Simply clip it onto your ski boots and push in your chosen blocks from four levels of difficulty!
Take a look at the video!
You can order these from NASTC or on the SkiA website.
How to Use This Awesome Training Tool – Video
People Do Amazing Things
From the feel-good corner, here is a nice story from New England snow country, Whaleback Mountain in NH, where locals saved a mountain! Now more than 400 youths from nine towns are participating in affordable after-school programs. Most would never ski or snowboard otherwise. Some come from hardscrabble towns; others from single-parent families with no disposable income. No one is turned away. If they need financial assistance, they get it. Nearly 200 more student-athletes train there weekly with clubs or teams.
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JANUARY 21-24, 2016
Silverton, CO is big mountain skiing at its best. This course is for serious powder skiers, no groomed terrain is available. You ski helicopter skiing type of terrain here in the Colorado backcountry without the expense and take your off-piste/side-country skiing skills to the next level without a doubt. Silverton is not your typical resort: you leave all the glitz and hustle of resort-skiing behind. What you get is fresh, untracked powder in a quiet and beautiful setting. While Silverton is a lift-accessed mountain (count it: one lift), there is some hking involved, especially to get to the really good stashes.
Do not be intimidated. Silverton Mountain is for advanced AND expert skiers. You must be comfortable on black diamond slopes, in variable snow conditions and hiking 5-20 minutes along ridgelines. All guests need an avalanche beacon, shovel, and probe in order to ski/snowboard. We can rent those to you, or you can rent at the mt. No avalanche! training is required. If you’ve skied some powder before, are in fairly good shape, and are excited to learn, you will enjoy Silverton. Its an amazing experience.
We stay in downtown Silverton, a 15 minute drive from the mountain (did we mention the “resort” is at the end of a dirt road, after a curvy mt drive up to it?) You will enjoy lovely accommodations and gourmet meals after a full day of shredding around the huge expanse that is Silverton Mountain.
You’ll be in a skill/fitness-appropriate group, no more than 5 in your group with your personal trainer and guide. You will get top-notch guiding and personal instruction. On this NASTC course – perhaps more than any other – the terrain AND the staff both teach you. You will improve, its an amazing experience.
FEBRUARY 26-29, 2016
Aspen Extreme! Not really, this course is for advanced intermediates through experts. It was a huge hit last year, we had a blast. And the snow gods graced us daily! Wit! h Staff like Victor Gerdin, Chris Fellows, Jenny Macarthy, and! Kurt Fehrenbach, you will learn so much! We ski all of Aspen’s famous mountains and stay in deluxe lodging. Come!
The storm door is O-P-E-N in Tahoe! Its coming folks! Thursday, Sunday, next week! Bring it on!
Chris is off to Big Sky, we’re here booking Silverton, Squaw, Niseko, St Anton, Aspen….where do you want to ski this year with NASTC?!
Tahoe has been steadily blanketed with a hefty layer of early November snow! And its cold! This snow is going to stay! Ok so it doesn’t look QUITE as good as this photo YET but Alpine Meadows had its earliest opening in over a decade last week and Squaw opened Saturday.
Sugar Bowl will open Thanksgiving week!
Join us at Sugar Bowl starting in December!
Join us at Squaw and Alpine Feb 7-9!
International Ski Adventures
Join us this year in ST ANTON OR NISEKO! It’ll be NASTC’s 2nd year skiing the epic, snowy, powdery island of Hokkaido. This is an internationally ski adventure at its best: stay in a locals’ favorite hotel, eat at carefully chosen restaurants to sample a variety of cuisine and experiences, and ski with instructors who know the mountains super well! This won’t be a secret much longer: when there’s little snow and no pow elsewhere, there always is at Niseko’s four well-developed resorts!
St Anton is skiers’ paradise! Enjoy stepping out your hotel door in this picturesque village, being swept up to the top of a lift you can’t actually believe they were able to build, and skiing all day from one resort to the next, breaking for delicious lunch and libations along the way! We’ve been taking groups to St Anton for 20 years.
AIARE Class Going on Right Now
First AIARE Avalanche Level 1 course of the year underway right now!
Join us and get certified Level 1 either Jan 16-18 or Feb 19-21.
A lil’ Silverton anyone? Silverton Changed My Life
Silverton, CO is big mountain skiing at its best. This course is for serious powder skiers, no groomed terrain is available. You ski helicopter skiing type of terrain here in the Colorado backcountry without the expense and take your off-piste/side-country skiing skills to the next level without a doubt. Silverton is not your typical resort: you leave all the glitz and hustle of resort-skiing behind. What you get is fresh, untracked powder in a quiet and beautiful setting. While Silverton is a lift-accessed mountain (count it: one lift), there is some hking involved, especially to get to the really good stashes.
Do not be intimidated. Silverton Mountain is for advanced AND expert skiers. You must be comfortable on black diamond slopes, in variable snow conditions and hiking 5-20 minutes along ridgelines. All guests need an avalanche beacon, shovel, and probe in order to ski/snowboard. We can rent those to you, or you can rent at the mt. No avalanche training is required. ! If you’ve skied some powder before, are in fairly good shape, and are excited to learn, you will enjoy Silverton. Its an amazing experience.
We stay in downtown Silverton, a 15 minute drive from the mountain (did we mention the “resort” is at the end of a dirt road, after a curvy mt drive up to it?) You will enjoy lovely accommodations and gourmet meals after a full day of shredding around the huge expanse that is Silverton Mountain.
You’ll be in a skill/fitness-appropriate group, no more than 5 in your group with your personal trainer and guide. You will get top-notch guiding and personal instruction. On this NASTC course – perhaps more than any other – the terrain AND the staff both teach you. You will improve, its an amazing experience.
Why Ski NASTC
At the North American Ski Training Center or NASTC, we believe that ski improvement comes through total immersion in a fun and supportive learning environment that is skill specific and thorough. Our trainers carefully guide each individual in accomplishing skills and techniques that will stay with them for a lifetime. All of our ski courses includes a step by step progression designed to bring your skills up a level – making measurable improvements in your skills set and tactical choices on the mountain – and also enjoy skiing a new resort!
The NASTC mission is to provide comprehensive ski training experiences with the best trainers in the nation at the best locations around the world. Our methods allow each individual to maximize their learning bu! t also to indulge in the mountain environment and camaraderie of the sport of skiing.
Every skier dreams of being able to ski steep or bumpy terrain effortlessly and in absolute control. For many NASTC students this ha! s become a reality.
The NASTC staff is comprised of nationally ranked instructors, they are the teachers of teachers. Your skiing will improve in a safe and fun environment under their watchful eyes.
Come ski with NASTC this year, you won’t regret it!
In Memory of Those Who Perished
We end this week’s NASTC News extending our hearts to all those who lost friends or family members in Paris and Beirut and Nigeria and Iraq and Afghanistan and Syria and…so many places in our world. We are so terrifically lucky if we remain untouched by these horrible tragedies, and we extend the kind hand of help to those in need.
The Tahoe area got blanketed with a hefty layer of barely-November snow today! And with an overnight low of 18 in Truckee (much colder up at higher elevations we’re sure), its going to stay!
Friends and colleagues enjoyed turns on Mt Rose, kids made snowballs crusted with dirt, and we all drove s-l-o-w-e-r!
This bodes VERY well for our ski season!
Montana is also getting covered, and that’s the site of our FIRST COURSE! Big Sky Dec 14-17!
That’s right folks, we woke up today to snow! This bodes well for the 2015-2016 season, at least we think so! Here’s what the experts are saying:
Snow above 8000 feet, with lesser amounts at the passes, 6 to 10 inches or so at Donner and Echo summits. Sweet! “A few inches are possible at lake level by Monday night.
The weather will remain unsettled into the work week, with one and possibly two more systems sliding down the east side of the Sierra and possible bringing snow showers to the region. These systems will be colder but not as moist, so snow accumulations will be modest at best.” (Thank You TahoeLoco.com/weather-geek)
BUT FIRST LET’S TALK BIG SKY, MONTANA
Want to make changes in your skiing this year? Get an early start with NASTC in Big Sky Dec 14-17. To truly get off that plateau you’re on, you have to invest the time under the watchful tutelage of NASTC’s top trainers. You WILL see a return. When you have badly ingrained technique it is only through multiple days ! skiing lots of mileage and vertical and repeating new and improved patterns…then your skiing skills move up a level! During the December holidays you’ll find yourself skiing the runs you always looked up at, staying away from the crowded runs, trying a new resort, maybe entering a race, or keeping up with your kids!
$2695 incl lodging, breakfast, lift tickets, tech talks and all-day instruction in small groups.
Sign up now!
SKI TIPS TO GET THE SEASON STARTED RIGHT
Stability is the body’s ability to remain aligned and unchanged in the presence of external changes and outside forces. Remember the last time you skied in uneven terrain or heavy snow? You probably felt the push and pull of the snow and the bumpy terrain working together to knock you off balance. Stability combines balance, strength, and muscular endurance.
Mobility on the other hand, combines normal range of motion in the joints and proper muscular flexibility. It is crucial for executing proper mechanics, preventing injury, and skiing well. Mobility lets you move in all planes of motion, thus allowing you to perform any motion without sacrificing stability.
Here are 5 focal points in the gym for your training this month: plyo ball work for your core,TRX style resistance work, glutes and quads (leg curls/extensions), physio band work (place around your ankles and “walk” with consistence resistance in your steps), explosive plyometric box work, and yes, cardio anything including interval training.
INTERNATIONAL SKI ADVENTURES
Join us this year in St Anton, Austria or Niseko, Japan. It’ll be our 2nd year on the epic, snowy, powdery island of Hokkaido. This is an internationally ski adventure at its best: stay in a locals’ favorite hotel, eat at carefully chosen restaurants to sample a variety of cuisine and experiences, and ski with instructors who know the mountains super well! This won’t be a secret much longer: when there’s little snow and no pow elsewhere, there always is at Niseko’s four well-developed resorts!
St Anton is skiers’ paradise! Enjoy stepping out your hotel door in this picturesque village, being swept up to the top of a lift you can’t actually believe they were able to build, and skiing all day from one resort to the next, breaking for delicious lunch and libations along the way! We’ve been taking groups to St Anton for 20 years.
THANK YOU WOUNDED WARRIORS PROJECT
On October 20 we were fortunate to lead a group of 15 servicemen from The Wounded Warrior Project to do some beginning rock climbing on Donner Summit. Lynnea, Colby and Jenny had an easy time teaching these fit athletes how to move over granite! No fear here! Everyone seemed to have a good time under a warm October sun for several hours. Thank you for coming to see us guys. And thank you for your service.
The Wounded Warrior Project is a charity and veterans’ service organization that offers a variety of programs, service and events for wounded veterans of the military actions following the events of September 11, 2001. It operates as a nonprofit organization.
WWP’s vision is to “foster the most successful, well-adjusted generation of wounded service members in our nation’s history” as it works to raise awareness and enlist the public’s aid for the needs of severely injured service members, help severely injured service members aid and assist each other and provide uni! que, direct programs and services to meet their needs.
If you’re looking for a great group to support this season, consider the WWP. WWW.woundedwarriorproject.org
LOTS TO DO THIS SEASON WITH OUR AWESOME STAFF
There’s a lot happening – stay tuned and get signed up soon for your ski training adventure vacation.
We have some amazing trips and fantastic clinicians from our Staff lined up to help you achieve your skiing goals.
At the North American Ski Training Center or NASTC, we believe that ski improvement comes through total immersion in a fun and supportive learning environment that is skill specific and thorough. Our trainers carefully guide each individual in accomplishing skills and techniques that will stay with them for a lifetime. All of our ski courses includes a step by step progression designed to bring your skills up a level – making measurable improvements in your skills set and tactical choices on the mountain – and also enjoy skiing a new resort!
The NASTC mission is to provide comprehensive ski training experiences with the best trainers in the nation at the best locations around the world. Our methods allow each individual to maximize their learning but also to indulge in the mountain environment and camaraderie of the sport of skiing.
Every skier dreams of being able to ski steep or bumpy terrain effortlessly and in absolute control. For many NASTC students this has become a reality.
The NASTC staff is comprised of nationally ranked instructors, they are the teachers of teachers. Your skiing will improve in a safe and fun environment under their watchful eyes.
Come ski with NASTC this year, you won’t regret it!
A GOOD WATCH Check out this reminder to live slowly: Slo Mo Video
DID YOU READ “MY DARK CALIFORNIA DREAM” (NEW YORK TIMES 10/25) BY DANIEL DUANE? Email us your reaction! My Dark California Dream
