Camp course
William Rolleston (above) running through a dry land slalom course during the New Zealand Universities ski team’s training camp at the University of Canterbury last week-end. A team of four men and three women will represent New Zealand at the World Students Winter Games in Strbske Pleso, Czechoslovakia, in February next year. Four members of the squad, Mandy Vryenhoek, Rachel Scott, Jeremy Guild and Rolleston (all Canterbury), attended the three-day camp and took part in a wide variety of activities.
Two others, Mac Mouat (Canterbury) and Alistair Snow (Auckland), were already overseas and Fiona Boyer (Otago)
was not available for the camp.
On the Friday the squad members were put through a 90s fitness test on a cycle, spent some time in the university’s wind tunnel and were fitted for orthotics. The stint on the cycle tested anaerobic maximum power output and the wind tunnel allowed the skiers to get good aerodynamic body positions for downhill.
Concentration the next morning was on dry land training ... running through the rapid-gate slalom course and doing agility exercises. In the afternoon the athletes played squash and basketball.
The Sunday was spent biking around the Port Hills and ice skating.
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