It's About time I wrote...

It’s been a while since I’ve written something in this space. I said last time, I would write once something interesting occurs. Too much time has passed to remember the specifics, but overall it hasn’t been such a great few months.

When I thought that all the injury blues were behind me, I managed to come up with a few more. First, I damaged the labrum in my hip… yes that is Labrum and not labium, just by doing a regular squat in the gym. Next, I tore my hamstring again – this time on the other side.

Having said all that, I’m feeling healthy and strong at this present moment. I must have a few injections into my hip next week though (cortisone and anaesthetic) and then I should be right to go… For a while.

I still managed to have a fairly fun and productive domestic season, with plenty enough skiing. My boy Tito from Greece came down under and stayed with me for the majority of the winter. He was a good house-mate with plenty of stories to tell, mainly about the girls. He did all the cooking while he was here, which made me lazy (gladly).

My coach (Des) shot through to the U.S mid season to work with Dale on the water-ramps, so I had a lot of time to ski alone, and become more aware of the things I was doing, and the concepts I was trying to achieve. I had fun, and the training was good.
I unfortunately missed out on skiing in our events due to my hamstring injury, but I remained involved a judged instead. I can safely say that after the Abom event in Mt. Buller, I never want to be a judge. The judging panel was situated on the side of the course due to heavy fog, and the course was terrible. Perhaps the panel did not see the same things from the side as the coaches from the bottom, and big Austrian, Harald was not a happy camper… He tore me to shreds.

I was back on snow in September and did a weeks training on the course with Dale. It was a good week, and Dale was back to his old form, which was good to train along side. He is just 7 months out of an ACL reconstruction and is basically skiing at 100%, pretty remarkable. We had our AIS physical testing this week. I went well in most tests – 3RM Bench 105kg, 76cm Vertical Jump, 57 VO2Max.

I’ve got just over two weeks now until I head to Zermatt, Switzerland for three weeks training up on the Glacier. It was the best camp of the season last year, so I am looking forward to it. In the meantime, its training as usual… hoping to see a bit of summer before I head away but knowing my luck, I’m in for another endless winter.

I’ll write from Zermatt.

Ramone

P.S Here’s a short video with what I’ve been up to.