A little sun, a little rain

Another successful weekend up at the ramps in Lake Placid.  I was a great weekend, mother nature blessed us with a beautiful day on Saturday, and this weekend held off the snow on Sunday (thank you!!!!).  We saw a few new faces this weekend and even had a new comer to the ramp.  This weekend we saw Sterling Crescimanno, Lizzy Smith, Allison Benedict, Devon Savino, Darius Baradaran, Tyler Wadhams, Jeremy Gravell, and new comer Ari Schnider.  We had morning ramp times both mornings so everyone had the pleasure of waking up early and being in the gym at 6:45.  And when we weren't on the ramps, we had a blast playing Knock out (its a basketball game) in the gym at night for about 3 hours.  On Saturday Jeremy won 11 games, DJ won 3, Allison won 2, and sterling won 1.  Believe it or not the killington team has almost become descent at basketball, we're still not good but we're getting better. 

This weekend on the ramps, the athletes got a ton of jumps.  I saw a ton of backflips, some cork 7's, and a bunch of spins.  This weekend Sterling was working on keeping his head up and taking off more upright in his cork 7, and lifting in his back X.  Ari on his first weekend at the ramps, was working on takeoffs and his spins, and spins with grabs.  Lizzy continued to work on her 3's thinking about an even takeoff and staying "T"ed out in the spin.  Lizzy was also working on staying in the front of her boots on takeoff and finishing her lift in her back X.  Allison worked on her 360, and 3 X on Saturday morning, and then got to work on her back layout thinking about finishing her takeoff, and staying locked out.  Devon kept working on staying in a laid out position in his back layout and finishing his takeoff, and not kicking out when he is finishing his rotation in his cork 7.  Darius continues to perfect his back layout thinking about keeping his shoulders forward on takeoff, and also worked on his cork 7 thinking about being patient on his set.  Tyler spent the weekend working on his backflip thinking about finishing his takeoff and getting his hips through.  Jeremy worked on not trailing his feet in his back layout, and taking off more upright in his cork 7, and having a more patient set.

It was nice to have a visitor from the KMS staff, Anastasia Tirio KMS's Director of Development.  Anastasia paid us a visit on her way through after going to an alumni meeting for St. Lawrence University.  We thank you for stopping by and checking out what the freestylers do during the off season, come back anytime!!!

I just wanted to say thank you to David Schnider.  David is Ari's father, he took a few pictures for us on Sunday and posted them on line.  Please check out his photos at http://picasaweb.google.com/Runs26point2/2009_06_07?authkey=Gv1sRgCK3T0vvW1bmufA&feat=email# .  Thanks again David!!!

It was a great weekend, looking forward to seeing more of you come up to the ramps.  We are having a blast and getting a lot done.  Keep up the hard work and see you all soon.

Coach DJ