| Snowboarders Gone On California |
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| ATHLETES & COMPETITIONS - Snowboard | |
| Written by Lori Knowles / SkiPressWorld.com | |
Wednesday, 27 May 2009 12:33 |
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 The Canadian Snowboard Federation is not wasting any time in its Olympic preparations with all three teams training at the Mammoth Mountain Ski Area in California... attending the first of many on-snow camps to come this summer season. The halfpipe team, which has been training since May 17th at the American resort, has been joined by the alpine snowboard team and the snowboardcross team on June 1st to kick off the summer training season. “The summer training camps are a key component to the success of our teams. Coming off our best season ever with 26 World Cup and World Championships medals, the real work now begins in our last stretch before the 2010 Games. Our goal remains to increase training intensity to improve Canada’s performance with quality results on the FIS World Cup Tour as well as peaking for the 2010 Games,” said Christian Hrab, Director, High Performance for the Canadian Snowboard Federation. In total this summer, the Canadian Snowboard Teams will participate in a total of 17 on-snow and dryland training camps, ensuring peak performances at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver this upcoming February. Throughout the summer season, the snowboard teams will travel around the world, chasing the snow to bank as many snow days as possible prior to the beginning of the 2010 World Cup season in September. The teams will spend time on snow in Canada such at the Whistler and Farnham glaciers (BC), Powder King (BC) and Calgary (AB), in American resorts at Mammoth (California), Mt Hood (Oregon) and Copper Mountain (Colorado), as well as visits to the Southern hemisphere (New Zealand, Australia, Argentina) and Europe (Switzerland, Austria). |
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