Freestyle
Step it up in the moguls, park, pipe, or on rails. CVA Freestyle team alumni include: X-games competitors: Corey Vanular ’06 (Corey also won the Gravity Games), Dan Marion ’05, Boyd Easley ’00, Matt Philippi ’04, Silas Miller ’05, Taylor Felton ’05; US Ski Team members Emily Cook ’97, Dave DiGravio ’05, Lance Field ’02, Brenda Petzold ’91 and Jeremy Cota ’07.
Check out our state-of-the-art indoor Antigravity Complex (AGC). It’s the only one of its kind in New England. That’ll give you ’'s superpipe. With the help of our coaches we’ll help perfect your technique. Just bring your motivation – and your style.
Dream big. Go big.
Nate McKenzie
CVA Freestyle Program Manager
Link to CVA: http://www.gocva.com/
©2010 By Carrabassett Valley Academy
they accept
that sometimes
to master something, requires periods
of regression before the progression,
pure frustration before the payoff.
Champions will bear long periods of frustration, so that they can perfect their skill, tactics and mental game.
Champions by definition are just people who have spent the time working on their core competencies to such a level or refinement that others label them champion. As an athlete, do you really believe that you can have the success without the frustration ?
Playing the victim anchors you.
Quite often coaches, see athletes all too ready to blame external factors influencing a bad performance. Every athlete will enjoy bad performances over time. Top performers differ from amateurs is that they see a bad performance as a "call to action" within themselves. Time to do more work, time to go back and fix the fundamental issues.
The athlete who walks up to their coach after a disaster day and says well it went wrong today, let learn from it and get to work tomorrow to fix it, is an athlete that any coach will sweat blood for.
Amateurs will anchor themselves by believing that the fault lay elsewhere and ignore the opportunity to step up and set a work plan to achieve those top performances.
End game.
You can't put it in the bank, being an athlete means being on a boat that never stops rocking and rolling. Your performance attitude is 100% up to you. Use your coach, challenge them, be humble in their experience and viewpoint and they will get you the edge you seek. Be passionate about your goals and convinced by your own power to achieve your goals. Frustration is part of the game, don't seek the early payoff; let your work and performance build towards the true end game.
— Rick Bisson