Jumping Journal: January 06, 2006

Winter has finally arrived...in more ways than one.

 

Finally, the adult jumping sessions have began at Storrs Hill.  Yep, the Dr. John has made his presence known.  He has now been jumping for 10 years and lives in Rhode Island.  He comes up and jumps in Lebanon most every weekend.  Due to the late start of jumping on the 25 this winter, he made his first appearance up this way today.

 

I also decided to try something new and...back to the old way of doing things.  To put it modestly, it worked quite nicely, no surprise here to say the least.

 

I don't think I have ever seen the 25 so slow before.  When we were doing it on all natural snow back in November and December it was faster than it was today with a skiffle of new snow on the inrun and fresh snow falling all the time I was jumping.  The first jump was the hardest as I wasn't expecting to fall asleep on the inrun due to the slow speed.

 

I had seven, nice solid jumps.  I was even able to finally get several hockey stops in with the new 264s.  So far I've had no luck being able to do a hockey stop using the new skis.  The technique wasn't there on any of the jumps but with the slow speed and everything else, it didn't surprise me to not have the technique quite in place.

 

Crash