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Swiss team pleased with preps so far
Last winter, the Swiss alpine snowboard team underlined its strength again successfully tying on to the great 2014 Sochi Winter Games results with rising star Julie Zogg leading the way.
The 23-year-old snatched the Overall Alpine Snowboard World Cup title as well as the Parallel Giant Slalom title and therefore laid the foundation for some high hopes for the 2015-16 winter.
To achieve the team's goals of doing well again, the raceboard squad of Switzerland organised its season preps at Passo Stelvio, Zermatt and Saas-Fee during the summer and autumn time much to the joy of the Head Coach involved.
Ingemar Walder said: “We might have had less training days due to some bad weather days but the performance was good.”
Especially as the former national team rider from Austria was able to train with the whole team, the well-experienced World Cup racers as well as the up-and-coming talents from the B and C squad.
“This is very helpful for the younger ones who can orient themselves by the older ones.”
A very important factor for Walder who prefers to work with a big, strong and deep roster and to slowly bring talents forward.
The next step to another thriving season is a three-week trip to Colorado, where the team will get the last fine-tuning done in Copper Mountain and Echo Mountain before kicking off the new World Cup season in Carezza, Italy on December 12, 2015, with the first parallel giant slalom.
The goals for the next season which lacks a major event are simple and ambitious likewise: bring back the women's Overall Alpine Snowboard World Cup title to Switzerland and place at least one male rider in the top-3 of the ranking.
“We have the potential to do so, and we hope that the new material will worth while, too,” said the 37-year-old from Innervillgraten before heading over the pond and the high altitude training camp
Source: fis-ski.com
The 23-year-old snatched the Overall Alpine Snowboard World Cup title as well as the Parallel Giant Slalom title and therefore laid the foundation for some high hopes for the 2015-16 winter.
To achieve the team's goals of doing well again, the raceboard squad of Switzerland organised its season preps at Passo Stelvio, Zermatt and Saas-Fee during the summer and autumn time much to the joy of the Head Coach involved.
Ingemar Walder said: “We might have had less training days due to some bad weather days but the performance was good.”
Especially as the former national team rider from Austria was able to train with the whole team, the well-experienced World Cup racers as well as the up-and-coming talents from the B and C squad.
“This is very helpful for the younger ones who can orient themselves by the older ones.”
A very important factor for Walder who prefers to work with a big, strong and deep roster and to slowly bring talents forward.
The next step to another thriving season is a three-week trip to Colorado, where the team will get the last fine-tuning done in Copper Mountain and Echo Mountain before kicking off the new World Cup season in Carezza, Italy on December 12, 2015, with the first parallel giant slalom.
The goals for the next season which lacks a major event are simple and ambitious likewise: bring back the women's Overall Alpine Snowboard World Cup title to Switzerland and place at least one male rider in the top-3 of the ranking.
“We have the potential to do so, and we hope that the new material will worth while, too,” said the 37-year-old from Innervillgraten before heading over the pond and the high altitude training camp
Source: fis-ski.com
