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Roxy Snowboard Camp was held Feb. 26, 2006
at Waterville Valley Resort, in New Hampshire.
Words by Lauren
Photos by Lauren and Phil Matthews
The Roxy
Camp is a one of a kind opportunity for intermediate to advanced riders to
improve existing skills, learn new tricks, or just hang out with the girls
and have fun. Roxy Camp offers the opportunity for girls 13 and older to
improve skills and interact with members of the Roxy Snowboard Team. The
Camp provides women with the opportunity to develop their skills in a
comfortable atmosphere surrounded by some of the best female snowboard
instructors in the industry.
Roxy Snowboard Camp was held Feb. 26, 2006 at Waterville Valley Resort,
in New Hampshire.
I attended
Roxy Camp at Waterville Valley Resort, in New Hampshire in February. This is
one of the only 2 Roxy Camps held in the Eastern US, and one of six camps
nationwide.
(Sunday River, Maine is holding the camp on March 26, 2006 for beginner to
intermediate levels.)
Girls in my camp were mostly in their teens and 20s, except for me and
Georgine. Levels were intermediate to advanced. As I've said before, age
doesn't matter as long as you're all interested in working on the same
skills. At this camp we worked on our park skills in Waterville's excellent
beginner Little Slammer Terrain Park. We rode a J-bar to the park, then
hiked. Even these activities are new to some riders and help expand their
riding spectrum.
(Waterville's
other park is Exhibition, which has as it's showpiece, the "Hubba Down Rail
Street Style Set Up," similar to the rail, box, stair set-up we've seen at
the 2003 thru 2005 US Opens.
The ratio of coaches to riders was about 1 to 4 so everybody got plenty
of attention. Drea Russell of Lake Tahoe was the Roxy Guest Pro rider at our
camp. Jessica Roy, a coach from High Cascade Snowboard and Skateboard Camp
helped. My coach was Kelly Keena who was on a Rome board that she won for
her excellence at another snowboard camp that she attended.
My group
worked on ollies from the ground, with Kelly's help. This is a skill that
I've been trying to master for too many years now, but I'm definitely
getting the hang of it from camp. (I suspect my board is too stiff to do it
easily, so I have to exert a lot of effort since I'm not getting all the
flex and pop I need.)
We worked on jumps, and riding the fun box. We practiced ollying over the
little slalom brush gates in the park. We did some free riding on the
mountain. And practiced flat spins on the snow, and butters. Some campers
worked on the rails, and 270's on the box. (That's a 50-50 (straight slide
with your board on the rail) with a turn almost all the way, to a frontside
boardslide.)
Lunch was
a warm, welcome break from the 8 degree F weather. After the afternoon
session, there was a hot chocolate and prize party. Lots of excellent Roxy
prizes were given out by drawing names. There were goodie bags with t-shirts
and stickers for all. The same lucky camper won both a Roxy jacket, and a
Roxy board set-up.
See the locations and dates of other Roxy Camps at
www.Roxy.com/snow/camps.aspx.
(One little gripe - Roxy.com's home page is a website you can't view on a
Mac because of Flash.)
Lauren hits the box
