68 TRAINING SLALOM
WORDS AND PICS: RUSSELL GROVES
SOMETIMES YOU THINK IT IS
BETTER TO TRAIN ALONE IN SECRET,
SO WHEN THE SEASON COMES,
PEOPLE WILL GET A SURPRISE,
YOU’LL HAVE THE SPEED AND BE
SET FOR POLE POSITION. YOU HAVE
YOUR GPS AND IT IS EASY TO LAY A
BUOY FOR GYBE DRILLS AND
PRACTICING YOUR STARTS – TWO ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF
RACING, WHATEVER YOUR LEVEL. But you have no way of knowing
if you are better than anyone else. It’s all very well nailing down
the finer points but when it comes to measuring your speed –
another key piece of the puzzle – having others to test your
mettle against gives a bigger picture view.
Why spend a month training and tuning
slalom kit somewhere warm and windy?
Sounds like there’s an obvious answer
when you ask the question out loud but
then not everything is black and white.
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SURFING