La Clusaz freeride – Lorraine Huber https://www.lorrainehuber.com Lorraine Huber - Professional skier, freeride world champion, and mental coach Wed, 16 Jan 2013 21:50:27 +0000 de hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://www.lorrainehuber.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/fav-100x100.png La Clusaz freeride – Lorraine Huber https://www.lorrainehuber.com 32 32 215383494 Sweet Victory in La Clusaz! https://www.lorrainehuber.com/competition/freeride-world-qualifiers/sweet-victory-in-la-clusaz/ https://www.lorrainehuber.com/competition/freeride-world-qualifiers/sweet-victory-in-la-clusaz/#respond Wed, 16 Jan 2013 21:42:33 +0000 https://www.lorrainehuber.com/?p=1629 Last weekend I was able to place first at the 4-star Freeride World Qualifier in La Clusaz, France. Conditions we’re excellent: 50cm fresh powder and blue skies. We couldn’t inspect the competition venue as planned the day before due to bad weather. With bib number 12, I only had 10 minutes to decide which line […]

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]]> Last weekend I was able to place first at the 4-star Freeride World Qualifier in La Clusaz, France. Conditions we’re excellent: 50cm fresh powder and blue skies. We couldn’t inspect the competition venue as planned the day before due to bad weather. With bib number 12, I only had 10 minutes to decide which line I would ski. I pictured the line in my mind on my way to the start; luckily I had some time in the cable car. Usually, that would have made me very nervous, as well as the fact that I was competing on new skis – the Kästle BMX118 in 183cm – but on this day I was calm and confident. I skied a fluid and perfectly executed run with 3 cliff drops and a steep, technical middle section and scored a run of 8.80 points. Sweden’s Matilda Rapaport came 2nd and Geli Kaufmann from Lech came third, a fantastic result for Geli.

La Clusaz competition venue
La Clusaz competition venue
Women Ski Podium La Clusaz Radikal Mountain 2013
Women Ski Podium La Clusaz Radikal Mountain 2013

This victory is my first since 2009 and it is an especially meaningful one to me after a difficult 11/12 season of crashes and small injuries. The season before that I was battling a long term illness and basically had to quit skiing for the season. I started believing that although I was a good skier, I just wasn’t cut out for competition. Now though my hard work and dedication is paying off and I’m so very happy.

Boys La Clusaz 2013
Revelling in some male attention after the competition in La Clusaz

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