FIS Junior Program

Program Goal - Each athlete to achieve FIS points under 100 in both technical disciplines or a reduction of 30% of their current FIS points, which ever is lower
Program Commitment - 90 days On Snow + Dryland

This program will focus on training and developing high performance skiing and racing skills and techniques necessary to be competitive at the Junior FIS Level.
There will be a 3:1 ratio of training to race days. Participants will take part in the 20 - 22 FIS races (Ont & Que) and where appropriate for training purposes some of the AOSD J Series races.

Most of this year's HADT Junior athletes were somewhere in between these two programs, virtually everyone did more than 55 days on some and some of the team did in access of 80 days on snow. We believe that meaningful achievement, achievement earned through challenge, cannot be accomplished without time on task. To this end we have assigned on snow training time appropriate to the goals of each program.

We want to do what is best for each athlete and their family, and that means, among other things, bring together the right group of athletes for each program.

This is the time of year when we must not only plan ahead but commence training for the new season. We have a real opportunity to do seven months of physical conditioning in order to be really well prepared to ski and race. It is not possible to learn what to do (technical and tactical skills) to manage the forces (speed) generated in high performance skiing without high performance fitness. The spring, summer and fall are not the off season, they are the conditioning season, and if we neglect it we neglect the ski/race season in turn.