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Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
Ravens Ski Club is the North East of England's premiere ski racing club. We train at Silksworth Ski Slope in Sunderland every Wednesday from 7-9pm. Ravens has a comprehensive race development programme with five coaching groups and seven coaches. Our race development team train every Sunday from 10-12pm as well as monthly trips to Xscape in Castleford to train on snow. For further details visit our website www.ravensskiclub.co.uk or contact us on 07774843651.

Tuesday 24 April 2012

Ravens come home with more silverware!!



Another fantastic weekend of success and triumph for the Ravens Racers. In last weekends GBR race in Manchester the results came in thick and fast:-
 
Claude Farron - 1st
Ian Jackson - 3rd
Lois Jackson -3rd



Unfortunately Rory Farron and Millie Jackson crash out in spectacular style in race 1
 
This success was followed by more honours in race 2:-
 
Claude Farron - 1st
Ian Jackson - 2nd
Lois Jackson -3rd
Rory 5th
Millie - 4th =
 
Well done to all the racers and good luck next weekend in Pendle's Club National.
 
Ravens Coaches.

Saturday 21 April 2012

A snap shot of lois's trophy which she won at the telford club national 
Skiers were
Ian - 3rd master
Claude - 2nd master
Andrew Hjort - 1st master ( still registered as Raven's racer )
Millie - 3rd girls U14
Lois - 3rd girls U12
Rory - skiied out first run, fast though
Adam - fast ? 23rd overall
On Sunday Adam skiied again to 53 seed points
 
Long day, to be repeated at the weekend


congratulations to all who took part

Monday 9 April 2012

Thursday Easter Holiday Training - 12/4/12

We are delighted to announce a Training Day this Thursday for all those off school and bored with Top Gear, Facebook and Miniclip.


The cost will be £25 and the session will be between 12 - 4pm, bring a packed lunch, something to drink and your factor 15.


This is in addition to training on Wednesday night.

Thursday 5 April 2012

How many coaches does it take to set a slalom course?
(Answers on a post card - or BLOG reply.....please)

FIS course set = tough work.....mentally


A special thanks to all 6 coaches who made last night a real FUN night. It was all set to be a really windy night and after serious snow falls in some parts of the region....


Tulips in Durham yesterday

....it looked like we might even be skiing on snow.

The wind held off and the snow never came to Mt. Silksworth but the skiers did, in their droves, and had a fun time. 

skiers having fun


As well as the skiers there was The Easter Bunny with a sack full of eggs, these were promptly devoured by the coaches and skiers and everyone lived happily ever after.....

.....the end.

Happy Easter to all, see you next week, there may be a Tuesday 4 hr training session so keep an eye on this blog and Facebook.