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Ski Sunday, The Hahnenkamm & British Freestyle - We chat to Chemmy Alcott & Andy Bennett

January 25, 2021 • Season 1 • Episode 2

This week we spoke to 4 x Olympian and Ski Sunday presenter CHEMMY ALCOTT, as well as 5 x British Freestyle Ski Champion ANDY BENNETT.

We caught up with Chemmy during two of the most exciting and contrasting events in the winter sports calendar - the LAAX Open and the most notorious and iconic men’s downhill in the world - the Hahnenkamm in Kitzbühel. We talk powder days, women in skiing, fitness and how it’s all going out in LAAX presenting BBC Ski Sunday.

Andy Bennett also joined us - Andy is 5 x British Freestyle Ski Champion, a Team GB Freeski Coach and ranked in the top 15 in the world for men’s halfpipe skiing. He’s also head of freestyle education for the IASI. We talk moguls and everything freestyle.. as well as trampolining, The Jump, ski modelling and his world record for skiing backwards..!

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Kindly supported by Snow Finel.

Thank you to:

@chemmyalcott
@cunningweasel
@bbcskisunday

Useful Links:

Uncut Version of Skiing The Hahnenkamm Kitzbuhel Downhill - Graham Bell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PC7HxfLs38

Men’s Olympic Mogul Skiing from Sochi Olympics 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Thj7yqPSOE

The iconic legends: Glen Plake & Jonny Moseley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ausvn9sTaME

One of Bella's fav videos of all time is Jonny Moseley training off snow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWBkCDdgj2E

Oxygen Freejumping is the Trampoline Parks Bella uses: https://oxygenfreejumping.co.uk/

Andy Bennett on Skiing Switch! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQuDG-StrEE

The White Book by Ellis Brigham https://www.ellis-brigham.com/magazines/whitebook-ski-clothing

British Association of Ski Instructors https://www.basi.org.uk/

We mention:

@hahnenkammrennen @yogaglo @iasisnowsports @basi_inst @ellisbrigham @thejumpc4 @emma.carrickanderson @bridgertonnetflix @thedukesspoon

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