**** ROBERT WINS THE BARSC OVERALL!!!!!! ****

BARSC Championships in Champoluc, Italy.

Robert has had an awesome start to the 2011/12 Winter Ski race season using ATOMIC Skis and Boots, winning the BARSC Championships overall in Champoluc, Italy.


On the 20th December the Slalom championship was held on the Del Bosco piste. Robert won both runs of slalom which were two different courses and was presented with the Gold medal for winning CH2 overall.

On the 21st December the Giant Slalom championship was held also on the Del Bosco piste. Robert added another overall Gold medal win to his name by winning the Giant Slalom championship also overall in CH2.

The Super Giant Slalom was unfortunately cancelled due to lack of snow and the replacement second Giant Slalom race also was cancelled the following day due to high winds preventing the lifts opening.

At the BARSC prize ceremony, Robert was presented with the BARSC award for the best British overall Children 2 boy at the BARSC Championships 2012. (Photographs courtesy of RACER-READY)

Daniel's FIS ski races.

Unfortunately,due to a lack of snow, all of Daniel's scheduled ski races in Leogang, Stroble and Garmisch were cancelled.

Robert's Christmas ski training camp with Telford Ski Race Club.

Robert couldn't wait to get back out on snow to train in Alpbach, Austria with Telford ski race club in preparation for the British Alpine Race Ski Clubs (BARSC) Championships held in Champoluc, Italy. Both Robert and brother Daniel flew out to Salzburg missing the last week of the school term after cramming all of their mock exams into one exhausting week. Many Thanks to Peter Baker and the staff of Mount Grace School for their continued support.

Daniel's Christmas Ski Racing Camp - Alpbach with AKTIV.

After a week of intense mock exams at school, Daniel flew off to Alpbach missing the last week of term to ski train with AKTIV in preparation for his first FIS ski races.

More Fantastic News!!!!

28th November

Robert was really stoked today to hear that he is now a SKI BARTLETT TEAM RIDER!!
Many Thanks to TERRY & SALLY and all the fantastic staff at Ski Bartlett for your continued support,expertise and kindness.

Fantastic news!

25th November

Many Thanks to the Skiers Trust of Great Britain for Robert's very kind training Bursary award.

Robert's GB Ski Racing Camp in Landgraaf, Holland.

October Half-Term

Robert flew to Cologne with some of the GB children's Ski Race team athletes for a training camp at Snowworld, Landgraaf in Holland. They were coached by Sean Langmuir and Alain Baxter.

Daniel's October Ski Training Camp.

October Half - Term

Daniel flew out to Hintertux with the AKTIV ski racing academy for a one week ski race training on the glacier.

HTAP - Strength and Conditioning Sessions.

Dryland training complimenting the Ski race training continues all year round for Daniel & Robert on the Hertfordshire Talented Athlete Programme.

Here are a collection of photos taken at Performance Hertfordshire as Daniel & Robert work on their own individual Strength and Conditioning programmes under the watchful eye of Tony Sephton.


Stretching out after every session.... So important!

Robert's SNOW + ROCK Sponsorship!!!!!!!!!!!

Robert with Collete and Mark from Hemel Snow + Rock.


After winning the Children 2 age category at the 2011 Hemel Ski Race Club Championships and being awarded Snow + Rock Sponsorship, Robert couldn't wait to go on a shopping spree!!

Here is Robert in the middle of his Atomic Boot fitting session. Big Thanks to Mark at Hemel Snow + Rock for his expertise fitting the footbeds and adjusting the boots to suit Robert's feet!




Tonight was the first opportunity to train with the new equipment and the set up is wicked! Bring on the winter season!!! MANY THANKS TO SNOW + ROCK. MUCH APPRECIATED!! THIS SPONSORSHIP WILL CERTAINLY BE PUT TO GOOD USE!

Robert

GB Fitness Testing Weekend - Robert

1st / 2nd October 2011
This weekend, Robert attended a GB Children's fitness testing weekend held in Kent. The weather was unbelievably hot for this time of year... especially for running but all went well and all worked very hard!
The weekend was extra special as the GB team were gathering from all over the UK and Europe to meet newly appointed Children's Head Ski Coach, Sean Langmuir who presented an encouraging power point to the parents. Also, helping with the coaching and testing was Ben Rewt and Superstars hero... Alain Baxter!
A great positive vibe spread around the team during the whole weekend.....exciting times lay ahead for the GB Children's team.... !

Here is a photo of the athletes just before they left to return home, receiving an inspirational speech from Lord Moynihan...

..."LET'S MAKE THIS SEASON YOUR BEST SEASON EVER!!!...."

2011 Hemel Ski Racing Club Championships!

ROBERT WON THE CH2 MALE AGE CATEGORY LAST NIGHT AT THE 20TH HEMEL SKI RACE CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP RACE AND WAS AWARDED THE SNOW & ROCK SPONSORSHIP DEAL FOR 2011- 2012.
ROBERT IS DELIGHTED TO HAVE WON THIS CHAMPIONSHIP RACE AND IS EXTREMELY GRATEFUL TO SNOW & ROCK FOR THE GENEROUS PRIZE WHICH WILL BE A MASSIVE HELP TOWARDS HIS FORTHCOMING WINTER SEASON.

BUFF Sponsorship - Robert

Robert continues to be a BUFF sponsored Athlete and was surprised this week with another fab box of BUFF goodies arriving in the post! New technical BUFF shirts with long and short sleeves and various new multifunctional headwear to test out. The Hoody BUFF looks really cool. BIG thanks to BUFF for the continuous support. Very Much appreciated.

Robert's website has been updated!

www.robertpoth.co.uk

Website Updates

The individual websites for Daniel & Robert are currently in the process of being updated.

We are extremely grateful for all the help, expertise and support given to us by Alan at Nialtoservices.com

Watch this space....!

Daniel & Robert represent( HTAP) Hertfordshire Talented Athletes Programme.

Daniel & Robert were delighted to represent the Hertfordshire Talented Athlete Programme along with Nick Brooking the director recently as guests at a health event run by Broxbourne Housing association at the Paradise Wildlife Park.
Broxbourne Housing Association were very generous to give the HTAP scheme some funding last year which helps to provide the support services that selected athletes on the programme receive.
Attending and taking part in events like this as representatives of HTAP are very special and a fantastic way to address the audiences enlightening them about their chosen sport of Alpine ski racing and most importantly saying a public THANK YOU to the companies generous support!

Robert has been given legend status with Playerlayer!!

WINNERS!!!! at the 2011 British GP Indoor Championships

14th August 2011

What a great day !! Dads Birthday.... What a super present!! Both Daniel & Robert win their age groups at the 2011 British indoor ski racing championships!

DANIEL 1ST PLACE JN1

ROBERT 1st PLACE CH2

British Grand Prix indoor series - Castleford Xscape.

13th August 2011

Race 5

Summer Camp for Daniel & Robert

23rd July 2011 - 6th August 2011

***Daniel joins AKTIV Ski Racing Academy***

;-)

SSE Grand Prix at Hemel

17th July 2011

ROBERT wins a place to train with Team Evolution!

12th,13th/14th July 2011

Due to Robert winning the Children 2 age category at the recent ERSA regional race held at the Hemel Snowcentre. Robert was awarded a training slot on the Team Evolution Indoor race camp which was held at the Hemel Snow Centre on the above dates run by Paul Telling.

As the camp had been scheduled around Private school term dates...! Robert was very pleased indeed, that permission was granted from his School teachers, for him to take part in the opportunity.

Robert enjoyed the camp very much with the mix of ski drills, ski exercises and fitness and enjoyed the experience of working with Ed Drake again who is the British Male number 1 Olympic ski racer.

On the last day of the camp, a dual slalom race was set up for all racers on the camp and ski coaches.
Out of everyone taking part, Robert was extremely pleased to win the dual slalom overall and was presented with a fantastic pair of Level ski racing gloves!! :-D

Thank you Team Evolution

DISASTER... :-( Daniel & Robert miss out on competing in Scotland due to Mums Injury!

2nd / 3rd July 2011

Daniel & Robert unfortunately missed out on competing in the British Grand prix indoor series races 3 & 4 at Braehead, Glasgow due to their Mum having to have surgery to reattach tendons and ligaments to a finger due to a serious injury sustained whilst she was supposed to be having a fun day out experiencing white water rafting at the fabulous Olympic white water rafting centre in Lee valley , Hertfordshire. :'(

This was a huge disappointment for the Boys as there were only 5 races in the series. However, they were both very understanding of the situation...under the circumstances and were both extremely supportive of their Mum.
Thanks guys. Mum
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ERSA Regional race at Hemel SnowCentre

26th June 2011

Telford Club National & SSE Grand Prix - Chill Factoreee!

18th June 2011
Telford Club National



19th June 2011
SSE Grand Prix

***DOUBLE GOLD*** for Robert,BRONZE for Daniel, "TEAM SHRED"- Winners of Ski Bartlett Pro Slalom Team event at SnowWorld, Landgraaf, Holland.

29th - 30th May 2011

Snowsport England BASS Indoor Snow Slalom Races.

Friday the 27th May 2011 saw a pick up from School as soon as Daniel had completed a GCSE examination during the morning. We quickly headed off in the direction of the Euro Tunnel to catch a train which would be the start of our journey to Europes largest Indoor Snow centre...SnowWorld in Landgraaf, Holland in order to take part in the first ever Snow sport England BASS Indoor Snow Slalom races. We had decided to camp in Holland over the weekend of racing and so arrived at our grass pitch at around 9.00pm! We still just about had enough light to construct our home for the three nights. Much hilarity happened that night with the arrival of friends pitched beside us and a dutch motorhome opposite which resembled an ice cream van belonging to a lookalike Rolph Harris!! Eventually, all was quite and everyone settled down to the first night under canvas!


Daniel was first up on Saturday morning, raring to go at 5.30am clicking the ignition on the gas ring ready to commence the cooking of the bacon butties. There's something about a cup of tea and a bacon buttie sat in the middle of a field? One by one we all shuffled to the shower block with the special key which allowed a shower and entrance and exit from the campsite. I even slept with this key under my pillow!! Did not want to lose it! At 6.45am on the nail. We were greeted by Jon the ski coach who had arrived with his family during the night in his very posh Motorhome.They were to be pitched behind us! It was at this point that we realised our tent had been erected inside out!! How it stayed up all night ,I'll never know!! We transferred 45 Slalom gates into our car and set off for SnowWorld. Hemel Ski club had a lane booked for 2 training sessions during the day. TBC

Robert re selected to Great Britain Children's ski race team 2011/12.

8th May 2011

The selections for the Great Britain Children's Ski race team were posted late this evening and Robert has been re selected for the 3rd year.

British Indoor Grand Prix Series - Race 1 & 2 Milton Keynes.

7th/8th May 2011

This weekend saw Daniel & Robert competing in the popular 'Graham Beck' Race series. This year the series has 5 races and races 1 & 2 were staged at Snowzone, Milton Keynes.
In Race 1 Robert won the Ch2 age group and Daniel placed 2nd in JN1.

The following day in Race 2 Robert posted the the only sub 13 sec time in run 1. A small error of judgement towards the end of his otherwise blistering 2nd run was costly and this unfortunately left him as DNF. Meanwhile, Daniel was having the best race day to date with wins on both runs to take the 1st place in JN1. The friendly competition and banter that goes with it in this new age group is extremely pleasing to witness! Roll on races 3 & 4.

Daniel selected to England Alpine Team 2011/12

4th May 2011

Big congratulations to Daniel as he received an e-mail this evening informing him of his selection to the England Alpine Team 2011/12.

This is a huge honour and much deserved reward for Daniel, that his latest Alpine ski racing achievements over the 2010/2011 winter season have been recognised and acknowledged by his Team selection, especially as he had limited access to Alpine ski training due to school internal and GCSE examinations!

Well Done Daniel!

BRITISH INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS, CHILL FACTORE.

24th April 2011



Robert is the CH2 British Indoor ski racing champion!!

This weekend opened the 2011 summer race calendar and what a high to begin on! Robert won both the Anglo-welsh championships and the 2011 British Indoor ski racing championships which were held at the Chill Factore indoor ski centre in Manchester. At the Anglo-welsh Championships, Robert comfortably won his age group finishing in an impressive 5th Place overall, his winning time -2.32 seconds faster than his nearest competitor would have been good enough to take the JN1 title as well!!

Daniel venturing out in a new age category this season posted 2nd place JN1 at the Anglo- welsh and 3rd place Jn1 at the British Indoor Championships!

INDOOR SKI RACING - ANGLO WELSH CHAMPIONSHIPS,CHILL FACTORE

23rd April 2011

SUMMER SKI RACE SEASON BEGINS!

23rd April 2011
The winter race season is over but the Summer race season begins and preparation begins now for the next winter season!


Daniel is now a Junior 1 racer.
Robert is still a Children 2 racer.

WINTER SEASON ENDS ON A HIGH!

Highlights of the season

BRITISH CHILDREN'S ALPINE SKI RACE CHAMPIONSHIPS & SCOTTISH ALPINE SKI CHAMPIONSHIPS

1st - 10th April 2011

Scottish Alpine Championships, Courchevel, France.

British Children's Alpine ski race championships, Meribel, France.

HTAP Strength & Conditioning / Sports Psychology

March 2011

ENGLISH ALPINE CHAMPIONSHIPS, ITALY.

18th - 27th February 2011

ROBERT REPRESENTS GREAT BRITAIN IN SLOVENIA!

16th - 20th February 2011

ROBERT REPRESENTS GREAT BRITAIN IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC!

23rd - 30th January 2011

SCHOOL GALA EVENING (Celebration of achievements)

28th January 2011

HTAP Business breakfast

21st January 2011

2011 WINTER SKI RACING SEASON BEGINS.

2nd /3rd January 2011

ANGLO SCOTTISH SKI RACING CHAMPIONSHIPS
Les Houches, France.

HTAP Strength & Conditioning sessions

15th December 2010