Dear All

Hope you've had a good summer - I'm writing this from rural Northern Ireland
where snow and winter still seem far off.

But, with skiing in mind, and not letting the current weather put us off, we
have one of our fullest autumn programmes to date. 2007/8 will be our third
full season of rollerski instruction - and we hope to build on everything we've
learnt to date, to make it our best.

I'd encourage you to read on, and book early onto a course. We have 1-day
courses at Dorney Lake and Castle Combe, and 4-week courses in Hyde Park. Our
club sessions (which will be a year old next month) continue to grow in
popularity, especially with 'graduates' of our 4-week courses.

Finally, for turning rollerski skills into skiing on snow, we'd encourage you to
book one of the Exodus / Waymark courses featured on our website.

Read on for more...


COURSES COMING UP

We have a very strong line-up of courses this autumn. In September we have the
last of our evening courses in Hyde Park, with Level 2 courses for
intermediates, as well as beginners's sessions.

Courses include:
Sat 25th August - Les Parsons masterclass
Sun 26th August - Dorney 1-day course (Level 1 [nearly full] and Level 2)
Thu 6th Sept - 18.15 Hyde Park, Level 2 4-week skating rollerski course
Sat 8th Sept - 11.30 Hyde Park, 4-week skating rollerski course
Sun 9th Sept - Dorney 1-day course (Level 1)
Tue 11th Sept - 18.15 Hyde Park, 4-week classic course

For a full list of courses see -
http://www.rollerski.co.uk/events.html


CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING

This year, we are recommending ski weeks run by Exodus / Waymark, which fit best
with our rollerski programme. This saves the additional cost of flying us out
for a week, and their staff will provide excellent instruction.

You can see our recommendations at
http://www.rollerski.co.uk/cross.html

Additionally, if you book one of these trips (or any Exodus Winter Activity
Holiday) we will give you a £25pp reduction on rollerski instruction or
equipment (for you or your club).

We plan to offer a shorter 3-day preparation course before a couple of the ski
marathons (at the moment we are considering the Engadin and Koenig Ludwig Lauf
races). More details to follow on this.


LES PARSONS

We're still hoping for a good turnout for our special guest coach Les Parsons.
It looks like there'll be plenty of adults along, but not many kids. So if you
know any children who may be interested, let them know. All proceeds go to the
Woodland Trust.

For more information, see http://www.rollerski.co.uk/nr045.html


CASTLE COMBE

We'll be running a 1-day course at Castle Combe Race Circuit in Wiltshire on
28th October, along the same lines as our Dorney Lake courses.

If you live in the South West, this is a very good chance to do a rollerski
course, and avoid a drive up the M4. If it proves popular we're likely to
repeat the course - so please book up if you are interested!

For more information see - http://www.rollerski.co.uk/events4.html

PS you may be interested to see the rollerski racing taking place elsewhere on
the circuit, on the same day - see below.


ROLLERSKI RACE ROUNDUP

For more information on the rollerski race results and upcoming events this
year, see http://www.rollerski.co.uk/ns024.html

A highlight still to come is the inaugural Wessex Biathlon & Nordic Ski Club's
10k sprints. This is the club's first race, but promises to be a good one, with
an exceptionally large entry from the military teams already. It will be
interesting to see how civilian racers compare to the army and RAF, especially
as racers will be on the same speed rollerskis (provided by the club).


INSTRUCTORS COURSE

Snowsport England will be holding a rollerski instructors' course on 6-7 October
in Hyde Park, London. Eric Woolley, their chief coach, will be running the
course and all potential instructors are invited to take part. Successful
candidates will be able to join the Snowsport England coaching scheme, which
provides public liability insurance and other benefits.

http://www.rollerski.co.uk/ns019.html


AND FINALLY...

People often ask if rollerskiing is a new invention. To prove it's not, here's
some archive footage of a rollerski tour from Southern California to Lake Placid
(NY), in aid of the US Cross-Country Ski Team taking part in the 1980 Winter
Olympics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HKlTKdRQJ4

Such trips have taken place in the UK as well. In 1995 a 53-year old Harry
Waugh from South Yorkshire travelled from Land's End to John O'Groats on
rollerskis covering the distance in 17 days and 2 hours. He raised £4,000 for
the British Heart Foundation



All the best,
Iain



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Iain Ballentine
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London Lite report on rollerskiing -
http://www.rollerski.co.uk/nr046.html

Rollerski courses coming up -
http://www.rollerski.co.uk/events.html

Save on rollerski packages -
http://www.rollerski.co.uk/buypackages.html


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