Cross-country skiers are made in the summer! Although it’s our quietest time
of the year for teaching, it’s the time when a really good foundation for the
winter can be laid. We’ve lots of news and stories on the world of
rollerskiing and cross-country skiing. So please read on, and do keep up your
rollerskiing!


COURSE SPECIAL OFFER

Our last 4-week course of the summer starts on Thursday 19th July. As an extra
incentive, if you book this course (or any September 4-week course) before the
end of July, we’ll send you a copy of ‘Nordic Manual’. This book gives a
lot of detail on classic and skating cross-country ski technique, and is the
ideal companion to any course of cross-country skiing.

Book at http://www.rollerski.co.uk/events2.html


TRANS’ROLLER STORY

A couple of years ago I did the Trans’Roller rollerski race in France. This
was a great roller ‘ski marathon’, and well worth a trip. For a full story
on how it went, see http://www.rollerski.co.uk/ns029.html


WAYMARK AND EXODUS

Ski holiday companies Waymark and Exodus are combining their brochures and admin
this season. This will have little impact on Waymark’s holidays - with the
same destinations and leaders - but means the holidays will appear in Exodus’s
winter brochure.

We reckon this is good news for the future of cross-country skiing. Waymark is
famous for its success in bringing people to the sport - with only the British
Army introducing more people to joys of cross-country skiing each year. In
opening up Waymark’s holidays to Exodus’s larger customer base, the trips
can only reach a wider audience. Our collaboration with Waymark / Exodus will
continue, and we will announce our joint holidays later in the year.


NEW CLASSES IN DULWICH PARK

Our Dulwich 4-week course is coming to an end, but due to popular demand, I’ve
added a few dates at Dulwich to the website. You can book a fortnightly class
session in July and August at http://www.rollerski.co.uk/class.html

Classes in Dulwich Park, Hyde Park and Richmond Park will continue throughout
the summer.


MARWE SALES ON A ROLL

Good news for the Marwe rollerski brand - see
http://www.rollerski.co.uk/nr042.html


ROLLERSKI SERIES START

The GB Rollerski Series began earlier this month at Huntly, Scotland and a full
race report is at http://www.rollerski.co.uk/ns027.html The next race is in
Durham on 30 June.


DORNEY COURSES

Congratulations to all who braved the elements at Dorney on our last two days.
The 1-day course at the end of May started in torrential rain, and didn’t get
much drier, while the 10th June course was in blistering heat all day!

Our next two Dorney dates are 15th July and 26th August - see
http://www.rollerski.co.uk/events3.html for more details.


YOU TUBE VIDEO - NORTHUG

This is a great YouTube video, featuring Norwegian XC ski
superstar-in-the-making, Petter Northug -
http://www.rollerski.co.uk/ns029.html


GROUP ROLLERSKI LESSONS

We’ve added a special page for Special Group rollerski lessons. We’ve
increasingly been doing one-off lessons for office groups, hen parties and
friends, and structured courses for schools and army teams.

We’d encourage you to book an office party on rollerskis - it’s certainly
something different, and good fun.

More details can be found on http://www.rollerski.co.uk/groups.html


ROLLERSKI INSTRUCTORS COURSE

Snowsport England are running a rollerski instructors course in September with
Eric Woolley. I’m organising this, and Eric Woolley is running it, so let me
know if you’re interested.


ALAN UPDATE

Alan Eason is now in Australia - where there’s plenty of snow, and (he tells
me) he’s working very hard. To check out the snow at Lake Mountain near
Melbourne, see -

http://www.lakemountainresort.com.au/


ROLLERSKI TRAINING ARTICLE

I came across the following article which I found quite interesting - it’s by
Pete Vordenberg who’s a US Olympic skier (and US distributor of Elpex
rollerskis…)

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~jaydavis/fssc/features/rollerskiing.html


CLUB UPDATE

Our rollerski club in Hyde Park is going from strength to strength - we had
around 8 turning up to every session in May, with Alan Eason focusing each week
on technique.

It’s been great to see the progress being made each week, and it’s clear to
see the training going on between sessions. A particular mention must go to
Megann and Michael Lennard, who’ve both made the most incredible progress,
and have barely missed a session since Easter. See
http://www.rollerski.co.uk/club.html


GOODWOOD AND WESSEX RACES

A couple of additions to the rollerski racing calendar - Goodwood motor racing
circuit is the venue for Camberley Skaters’ annual roller marathon on 29 July,
and rollerskiers are welcome (with rubber pole tips).

Nothing official yet, but the word on the street is that the Wessex Biathlon &
Nordic Ski Club are planning a big rollerski race for the end of October at a
top venue. Keep reading these emails for more information.

For the 2007 rollerski race calendar, see
http://www.rollerski.co.uk/ns024.html


All the best,
Iain


iain@...
07968 286129