One of the things that is constantly raised at the club is queries from new parents and racers about where to start, what races exists, what their children should take part in etc. It’s a long list of questions and of course everyone has an opinion. Unfortunately it is incredibly difficult to find anything online and i have yet to come across a parent who has seen this information on the SSE site.

I’ve been involved with ERSA for a number of years now and helping out at the races and this continues through to the national races. In 2008 I stepped back a bit from the scene as I became somewhat disillusioned with various aspects of the sport. Like any sport skiing certainly has it’s own set of unique characters, personalities and politics. How much you become involved is entirely up to yourself but in a sport that has been crying out for helpers all over the place it can be very disheartening at times.

Attached to this page is a newsletter put together for the region with a few bits and pieces in just to keep people up to date with things that have been happening over the past few months. Hopefully a useful thing and we will push more out when the time is right.

This will be sent out on the ERSA email list but I am keen to use whatever ways exist to push out information.

Last Sunday we held the ERSA Champs are the Hemel Indoor centre. Meant an early start to the day and if I hadn’t been held up on the M25 by an accident would have been there at 6.20am (yeah I know stupid time)!

It’s the ERSA AGM in October just after the Champs at Hemel. Lots of changes this year with people stepping down and others coming in.

Earlier in the year at the start of the season I took the conscious decision to step down as Chairman of ERSA RTP. I had someone in mind to take over and at the same time I was planning on standing for Chair of ERSA. The person I had in mind for RTP was hesitant initially but once I explained what I was doing it was fine.