New Boots

I got my new boots and they are great, a lot better then my old and broken boots. And I noticed it in my skiing, I feel I can turn much better and faster now.

And the best part, because I got foam boots I don’t have pain in my ankle while wearing my boots anymore. With big thanks to Menno Koelewijn from MK skiservice who also was creative enough to adjust the boot so it would fit perfect with my skiing orthosis.

Last week was our third and last pre season training camp in Landgraaf. I’m very happy with the way I skied those last 2 days I made progress and it felt awesome. Which I needed after I was skiing pretty bad last time.

It was a fun 2 day camp and the regular national team was in Landgraaf too, nice to hang out with them and see how they ski. I also train with some of them in physical training in Amsterdam.

Yesterday I went to Frank Jol to get my skiing orthosis ready for the season, it needed a new strap and the gas spring was worn out so that needed to be replaced too. I trained hard over summer, I lost some weight and my leg is thinner as well so my ortheses where getting to wide especially around my thigh, they filled the extra space of both my ortheses and now they fit again. Just when I wanted to leave I heard a big snap and felt unstable on my leg, I broke my orthosis, speaking of timing it was fixed right away and I was on my way 30 minutes later, great service!

Last week the fall semester started so I’m back in school, nice to see all my study friends again. The first course is introduction to clinical medicine after 2 year of gaining lots of knowledge we learn how to apply it now. And today I learned how to measure blood pressure, to be honest it wasn’t my first time, finally we start to learn how to do a physical, actually becoming a doctor ;-)

Next week I leave for Austria (Hintertux) for our first camp, there is a lot of fresh snow, so stoked. Just need to prep all my ski’s….