As full-time athletes we have an often monolithic focus on our physical training and improvements. We get stronger and faster in the hope that our prowess in those areas will dictate our success. And though these factors may be primary, it is often necessary for us to look to our tools to ensure they also are performing at the highest level possible.br /br /This past week the MOD Squad spent a pizza-filled evening with Project sponsor Rita Kenny at Winthrop Mountain Sports where we used her pressure-testing apparatus to check the compatibility of our skis to ourselves. This turned out to be a very worthwhile endeavor as each of us have either grown out of many of our current skis or have been skiing and racing on skis which are ill-picked for us. It also became a very useful exercise in discussing the composition of a race ski and what makes one wicked fast.br /br /div style=”text-align: center;”a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Mg2hQbkHkNs/SlfLP3N8r-I/AAAAAAAAALg/kMwn8w34Gag/s1600-h/SkiTesting_Rita_June09.jpg”img style=”margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;” src=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Mg2hQbkHkNs/SlfLP3N8r-I/AAAAAAAAALg/kMwn8w34Gag/s320/SkiTesting_Rita_June09.jpg” alt=”” id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356973755161423842″ border=”0″ //abr /span style=”font-style: italic;”Finding yet another pair of skis to swap out…br //span/divdiv class=”blogger-post-footer”img width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2910103639238326543-3305718720178181213?l=methowolympicdevelopment.blogspot.com’ alt=” //div
