Message #11795

[ToddW]

Jim,? whatever it was you did at camp that Max Sherwood liked, keep doing it.? In my mind, you earned the title "most improved" at last year's A-Basin dark blue camp.

John -- as always -- is spot-on about the importance of fore-aft to high performance skiing.? It's been one of my main focuses for a couple of years now, and most recently a focus of 3 days of private lessons with a black-level PMTS coach.? It's so important that when I filled out my registration for the next A-Basin camp the other day, I asked for a double helping of it in my goals section:? "BPST and stronger fore-aft."? First by outcome, truly bullet-proof, and secondly by name and degree.? Please, Santa, that's all I want for Christmas!

Since Santa's bringing me even stronger fore-aft, the ski buying's up to me.? I'm getting both the Icon TT 80 for all-round use, especially bumps, to replace my damaged Supershapes? and the new Supershape "RD" to get me some of that KERS to pull G's on hard, flat snow.? Thanks to some of the folks here for their advice on these purchases!?