Jumping Journal: January 19, 2006

Day 23.  Almost to the halfway point of the season.  By the time the weekend is over I should be at my normal halfway point toward 50 or 51 days of jumping on snow.  Mother Nature may provide for some real trying times if I want to pull off 50-51 days this year though.

 

I spent three hours helping get the inrun ready on the 50 for both tonight and for the meet this weekend.  The rain yesterday put a bit of a damper on things but putting plastic down over the inrun helped to protect it quite a bit.  There wasn't as much damage as what I figured there would be.

 

I ended up taking seven jumps after we got the inrun ready.  They all went pretty good tonight.  Definitely it seems like the consistency has returned to haunt me again.  I hate it when it gets to the point of "when you've seen one jump, you've seen them all".

 

Granted I did have the second jump this evening.  I'm still not sure what I am doing different when it occurs.  I can tell the difference almost instantly, but I don't have the slightest clue what I'm doing to make the difference.  I definitely move out over the skis, but I don't know what it is that I'm doing to get myself into that position.

 

Admittedly, I was wearing the ski bibs again tonight instead of the jump suit.  Now I stand at 14 consectutive jumps without a crash, the best of the season while jumping on the 50.  Yep, all 14 of them in bibs.

 

It sounds like I might get forced into the team competition tomorrow night.  I was planning on jumping during practice and then maybe forejumping, but I wasn't planning on competing.  Those plans may end up forceably getting turned in a different direction.  Time shall tell.

 

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