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04.02.2020 Day 2

Is there a better way to start a skiing day with an amazing Skiyoga session?! After we celebrated our intense warmup, we were ready to hit the tracks. But this time we went on our first smal trip. We walked on the tracks for a few hundert meters. It was really nice because the weather was amazing we had sunshine, a few cm of fresh snow and everybody was excided of the day. We stopped at a open space where we had to stand in a line. Sindra gave us the excercice to close our eyes and try to walk strate as Long as he tells us to stop. This excercise was quite hard for me because the hardest part for me was the balamcing i had the Feeling i was not really save on teh skiis anymore and thought i have to scorrect my disbalance. the result was, that almost everybody of us ended up walking in a courve. Sindra wanted to Show us, that in bad conditions if the sight is really bad und you dont have a compass and a map, in longdistance you have a big chance of walking in a circle.

After this excercise we stopped at a beachfield and took a short rest there and talked About the most dangerous animal in Norway the trolls 😀

After that short break we continued our tour and went a lot up- and downhill. I really felt my improvements and felt more and more comfortable on the skies. But I also realised the progress of our hole group. After a while we went a few meters off track up to a place where we had our big lunchbrake. It was really nice haveing the lunch there because everything was covered in snow and we had a nice few on some tracks and hills. totally energiesed again, we directly had to master the big Task of getting that offpist track, which we walked up, down again. I really appreciated the Group dinamic because everybody got really chearing, shouting and mostly: laughting. It was a lot of fun because almost everybody was more falling down then skiing!

Back on the tracks we walked the direction back to the start but took another route. It was really nice and Sindra told us some Facts about the animals that live in that part of norway. but before we finally got back to the start, we took one hill up to take one more brake. because the hill was too steep, we had to get up there in zigzag. That was quite chalanging because to turn the skies felt really strange and I turned really clumsy. But it is defenetly a really good technique which, I already knew, have to use a lot of times in the field.

after soaking up the sun, the biggest chalange of the day was in front of us. Going down the steep hill we zigzaged up. Again the spirit of our Group was again amazing. one after another went down the slopes with chearing and laughting. I was quite proud that i made it down without falling. Because the slope was really steep and offtrack again and i just tryed to have the same leg Feeling i would have on a snowboard if i would go down straight here. I really liked it taht Sindra forced us by just going there and just believing in our abilitys.

When we arrived at the start Point where the others still trained, we made a race in our Team because we thought we have to wait till the others are done. After the offtrack race, the other group dared us to do a race against them. Actually because our Team was so strong on the skiis already it was a really easy race for us 😉

If you thought now, that sounds like a lot aren´t they getting tired and go home? -No! not already because as our last Task Sindra showed us the technique od Telemark. therefore, you have to take one foot (the inner one ) back and bend your knees so you are Kind of doing a curtsy. after the turn you have to stand up straight again and Change sites. I was really impressed that we got shown this technique on the second day of Standing on the skies. But i really loved to do those excercices because it reminded me of the being a kid in a skicourse at the “Kids-world” when i was 3 years old! after we did that for half an hour, we got more time to just Play around so marie and me decided to take some slopes to practice the Telemark style, before we returned to tha car.

All in all was it an amazing day, because we had really nice weather, new snow and did a lot of skiining and were laughting a lot! I really appreciated it and felt really satisfied after the hole day. Also i felt a lot more confortable with skiing. I am really thankful being part of this project to experience those moments and being outside to lear new things  instead of sitting in lecctures and just learn those stuff theoreticly.

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