Alpine Canada Training and Competition Volumes Matrix - one-page summary reviewing the suggested training to competition ratios, days on snow per year and weekly training volumes for each development stage. 

Alpine Canada Training and Competition Focus Matrix - one-page summary reviewing the suggested training and competition focus for each stage.   

Ski Cross Reference Materials

FORMAT

In World Cup, World Championship and Olympic races, athletes complete a qualification round that is run as a time trial, with racers skiing the course solo. Based on their qualification time, athletes are placed into brackets for heat racing. In heats, four athletes race head to head down the course, with the top two from each heat advancing to the next round. Finals consist of a small final, with athletes competing for places 5 to 8 and a big final which determines the winner of the race, following by 2nd, 3rd & 4th. At the Winter X Games – one of the sport’s biggest events – six skiers compete for head to head instead of four.

Alpine Canada Ski Cross Progression Matrix - one-page summary reviewing the competition recommendations, course guidelines, performance benchmarks and race formats for each development stage. 

Alpine Canada Training and Competition Volumes Matrix - one-page summary reviewing the suggested training to competition ratios, days on snow per year and weekly training volumes for each development stage. 

Alpine Canada Training and Competition Focus Matrix - one-page summary reviewing the suggested training and competition focus for each stage.   

Ski Cross Glossary

Courtesy of CanWest News Service Article from January 15, 2010.

  • Banked turn: turn that is set at an angle helping in the direction of the turn.
  • Basketball turn: reverse banked turn, off angle, fall-away. The bank works against the direction of the turn.
  • Blocking: skiing in a manner to protect yourself from being passed.
  • Butter or buttered: skiing a section or terrain very smoothly
  • Bounced, or Bouncing: missing transitions through a roller section, or what you do when you "knuckle."
  • Boxed or Boxed in: stuck in a place/position that doesn't allow you to do what you want.
  • Case, Cased or Casing: coming up short on a jump, landing before the transition.
  • Double: a set of two "rollers" that can be jumped or "doubled."
  • Drafting: following closely behind another skier.
  • Flat turn, GS turn or Alpine turn: a turn that has no feature built to define it, it is flat like a Giant Slalom turn.
  • Hole-shot: winning the start and taking the lead
  • Knuckle: place on a feature where a flat spot rolls into a transition.
  • Knuckled: landing just short of making the transition.
  • Locked: stuck on edge, off-balance without the ability to release
  • Nail or nailed: skiing a section or terrain very well, fast
  • Over-shoot, over-shot: jumping long on a feature, missing the transition, or ideal landing area.
  • Pancaked, Pancaking: landing flat and hard, either short or long.
  • Rollers: section of terrain made up of rounded, wavy terrain. A skier is usually able to stay on the ground through a roller section.
  • Sling-shot: using the draft to accelerate and eventually pass another skier.
  • Step up: jump where the landing is higher than the take-off.
  • Squeezed: getting caught between two skiers, or a skier and a gate, or fence, and are unable to move
  • Step-down: jump where the landing is lower than the take-off.
  • Table or table-top: A jump where the take-off is at a similar level as the landing. Where the athlete has the option of clearing the flat portion in the middle and landing on the downslope of the feature or if travelling at a reduced speed can ski across the top.
  • Tranny: slang for the transition.
  • Transition: an ideal place to land on a feature, where landing is most forgiving, or part of a feature where speed can be generated by "working," "pumping," "milking."Triple: a set of three "rollers" that can be jumped all at once, or "tripled."
  • "Working" or Worked: (ex: Working a section, "I worked the rollers really well") Using the terrain to generate speed. (synonymous with pumping, milking)

Alpine Canada Training and Competition Volumes Matrix - one-page summary reviewing the suggested training to competition ratios, days on snow per year and weekly training volumes for each development stage. 

Alpine Canada Training and Competition Focus Matrix - one-page summary reviewing the suggested training and competition focus for each stage.   

Para-Alpine LTAD Progression - multiple page PDF reviewing the suggested training volumes and focus at each one of the development stages.