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2016 Key TBR Dates

30/3/2016

Updated regularly, please see key dates for 2016 below.
New events will be added when confirmed.

TBR: Water Jump Training
February Days: 21, 28
March Days: 6, 12, 13, 19, 20, 26
April Days: 17, 23, 24
SSA:Futures Camp: April 3-5

TBR: 2016 Mt Buller Program Guide
Mailed out/available online
April 5

TBR: 2016 Meet & Greet session
(meet the coaches, receive TBR jacket)
Location: O’Brien Group Arena (Icehouse)
Sunday May 29

TBR: 2016 On Snow First Day
Saturday June 25

TBR: 2016 2 week School Holiday block
June 25 to July 10

TBR: 2016 Social Outing
TBC - end of July School Holidays

jNats (Mt Buller)
Saturday July 30 (training day)
Sunday July 31 (comp day)

Victorian Interschools (Mt Buller)
August 22 to August 28

28th ABOM Mogul Challenge (Mt Buller)
Friday September 2 (training day)
Saturday September 3 (comp day)

National Interschools (Perisher)
September 7 to September 11

TBR: 2016 Last Day
Sunday September 4

TBR: End of Season Awards
Location: TBA - Melbourne
TBC - Sunday October 9 or 16

TBR:Water Jump Training
October Days: TBC
November Days: TBC
December Days: TBC

SSA FUTURES: 2016 Freestyle Acrobatic / Water Jump Camp in School Holidays

21/3/2016

We encourage any TBR athletes to take part. Please also pass on to any other interested athletes who may be interested in taking part in moguls, slopestyle etc... who are not currently members of the TBR program.

MORE INFORMATION & TO SIGN UP
Click here to visit the SSA Future Pages on the SSA Website

WHAT IS SSA FUTURES:
Ski & Snowboard Australia have introduced a series of athlete development and talent identification programs under the name SSA Futures. With a vision to further develop the opportunities and resources for athletes involved in the SSA athlete pathway and to engage with athletes who have shown potential, SSA Futures provides an elite sporting environment to encourage involvement in SSA domestic ski/snowboard events SSA Futures engages our elite, national team athletes across multiple disciplines to deliver a unique program in which participants are able to receive technical feedback, mentoring, and pathway direction from athletes who have gone through the system success- fully before them. Utilising the first class training venues and facilities that our national team athletes train on and with the support of our national team athletes and head coaches, SSA aim to achieve a consistent message of Long Term Athlete Development and direct more developing athletes into pathway programs.

WHEN IS IT:
The 3-day camp will commence on Sunday, April 3rd and run through until Tuesday April 5th.

SSA WATER RAMP SESSIONS
- Sunday April 3 & Monday April 4
Water ramping is the best way to refine your skills, become more comfortable in the air and learn new aerial tricks in a safe environment, before moving onto snow. The importance of a strong aerial skill base is essential across most skiing and snowboarding disciplines. SSA and TBR would like to provide developing mogul skiing athletes with the opportunity to maximise their off-snow training before the 2016 domestic winter with a special opportunity to train with some elite coaches including current Australian Olympic Team members. The sessions, combining water ramping with sessions in trampolining, have been designed to assist athletes in developing skills to keep up with the rapid aerial progression that freestyle skiing has seen in recent times. With the constantly increasing difficulty of tricks and physical demand on athlete’s bodies, dry land training methods such as water ramping and acrobatics are the safest and quickest way to enhance aerial progression Athletes will have the opportunity to train alongside some of Australia’s best mogul skiing athletes (NSWIS and OWI National Teams) who will also be utilising the facility and some of the best coaching available.

TRAMPOLINE SESSION:
- Tuesday April 5
The Trampoline Session at Bounce Inc will begin with a comprehensive sport specific warm up before getting into acrobatic skills. The session will include an introduction to the most effective approach to trampoline training specifically for freestyle skiing as taught by the Australian Winter Olympic Team. During this session athletes will be taken through step by step progressions on fundamental skills and have the opportunity to have fundamental and high end skills demonstrated to them by our elite coaching staff.

MORE INFORMATION & TO SIGN UP
Click here to visit the SSA Future Pages on the SSA Website

Lydia Lassila "The Will to Fly" - See the film at a cinema near you!

20/3/2016

Update: Click here to see where you can see the film

Note from Patto - "The Will to Fly" is an amazing documentary on the incredible story of Olympic Champion Lydia Lassila. The documentary covers Lydia, who started skiing at Mt Buller for the first time in 1998, from Bourke St to 2010 Olympic Champion, and then defending her gold medal as a Mum at the Sochi Olympics in 2014.

I guarantee any Team Buller/Mt Buller snow enthusiast will find the film inspiring, and highly recommend it to all!

The Will To Fly is the story of Olympic Champion Lydia Lassila, who as a young mum, against all the odds competing in one of the most dangerous sports in the world, dares to reach for an almost impossible dream and in doing so, helps pave the way for women in sport.

WEBSITE
www.thewilltoflyfilm.com

TRAILER
https://vimeo.com/134584319

SEE THE FILM
http://thewilltoflyfilm.com/see-the-film/