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Edgework: One of holy grails of skiing is skiing the trees. It’s right up there with deep powder, helicopter skiing, and skiing the backside of the mountain. The attraction is a combination of danger and exhilaration: get it right and it’s one of the best experiences you’ll ever have on skis. Get it wrong and …
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Edgework: A short, great video from ski company Rossignol on Giant Slalom(GS) racing and racing technique. Giant Slalom is the skiing event that splits the difference between the jarring, quick-turn discipline of slalom (be precise and be super-quick or you’re out) and the power-through-the-danger style of the downhill. Giant Slalom racing is a more fluid …
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Press Clippings: Embed from Getty Images Good Morning. It’s Wednesday 8 February 2017 and this is the morning edition of The Nightshift. Drama (what’s new) in Congress as the Administration has to ram through a cabinet pick by having the Vice-President cast the deciding vote in a 50/50 split, while there are new legal adventures going on …
Press Clippings: Embed from Getty Images Good Morning. It’s Tuesday, 7 February 2017 and this is the morning edition of The Nightshift. The Super Bowl is in the rear view mirror and America has its’ attention turned (whether it wants to or not ) back to the drama that is Washington and contentious, non-productive, partisan politics. Draining the swamp …
Press Clippings: Embed from Getty Images Good Morning. It’s Monday, 6 February 2017 and this is the morning edition of The Nightshift. Super Bowl LI is in the books and it was a classic: close; the first overtime game ever in Super Bowl history; and the biggest comeback ever in Super Bowl history. Congratulations to New England for …
Press Clippings: Embed from Getty Images Good Morning. It’s Sunday, 5 February 2017 and this is the morning edition of The Nightshift. The Super Bowl is today–after an NFL season that started in the fall of last year, after a bruising round of playoffs, and after a two week media buildup, the big day is finally here. …
Press Clippings: Embed from Getty Images Good Morning. It’s Saturday, 4 February 2017 and this is the morning edition of The Nightshift. Lots of government/legal/White House drama over the travel ban but…there are alternative events to follow. It’s the start of the Super Bowl Weekend (and by Monday, you’re probably going to have Super Bowl fatique). Houston is filling …
Press Clippings: Good Morning. It’s Friday, 3 February 2017 and this is the mid-day edition of The Nightshift. The last day of the first week of February and the start of the Super Bowl Weekend. Before the weekend arrives take another look around you. Catch up on what’s happening with the rest of the world by reading …
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