If you want to be competitive nationally or internationally, in the Northeast you have to come to Lake Placid. |
It puts things in to perspective for how we can improve. It was more of a building experience and thinking about where we can go from here. |
It really depends on the talent and determination of the athlete. If you have someone who starts and 8 or 7 years old, you could see someone ski the K-90 within four years. |
It's not easy to lose, but I'm proud of the boys. We know we've got to keep playing hard and getting better if we want to keep playing basketball. |
That's basically the distance jumpers strive for. |
There's a lot of excitement of going fast and going straight down an in-run. Once you push off that bar you're committed to a flight. |
Usually that little kicker in the flats we have them go down, that's the starting point. That's to kind of get them mentally prepared to go through the motions of keeping the skis underneath them, getting into that in-run position, that crouch position. |
We didn't really do anything different; they didn't really do anything different. Shots just wouldn't fall. We turned the ball over a little bit and we let them get to the offensive glass. |
We feel confident. We lost to them in double overtime the third game of the season. We're playing pretty well right now, we've just been playing good competition. |
We just turned the ball over too many times, especially in the fourth quarter. We played really well in the second and third quarters, but in the fourth quarter they started making their perimeter shots and we couldn't score. |
We know we can play with them. We also know we have to play as a team. |
We pretty much have an open invitation to any athlete that would like to try it, free of charge. |
With jumping gear, you need a lot more balance, a lot of coordination. |