Snowboard Examiner and part time photographer Ricky Otake took a whole heap of photos at Interski.
Check them out at his photography website. Here’s three shots from the freestyle night during Interski…
Archive for the ‘Snowboard Division’ Category
Freestyle Night Photos
Friday, April 15th, 2011
Snowboard Resources
Friday, February 11th, 2011Here’s a few snowboard resources that other nations have emailed out after Interski. Worth checking out as they help explain the clinics in more detail…
Team Photos
Sunday, February 6th, 2011
The whole team
Here’s a selection of team photos from Interski 2011…
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Netherlands’ Snowboard Clinic
Friday, February 4th, 2011Adam Dooney and Keith Stubbs went to the Dutch snowboard workshop on the last day of Interski. Here’s the write-up…
Clinic title: The TEA Concept – Try, Exercise, Apply
Clinic synopsis: The Examining team from the Netherlands split there clinic into two sections. Firstly delivering an outline of there qualification system and then presenting their TEA concept.
Our summary: Starting by outlining the three levels of instructor qualifications, the Netherlands’ Examiners explained how the start of their system is governed by a complete lack of mountains and snow. The first level of qualification is therefore done completely on dry-slope/indoors and is used mainly by instructors teaching in Holland on the same surface. Moving on to the upper levels the qualification exams are run in the European Alps and are designed for instructors that will be taking clients to the Alps from the Netherlands. The Level Three qualification has just been introduced and is focused not only on teaching and riding techniques but also other aspects of taking clients on a riding tour around Europe.
The clinic then moved on to introduce a teaching concept that is used to plan lessons and develop riders skills. They introduced this as the TEA Concept; Try – Exercise – Apply.
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Stubbsy Turned Dutch
Friday, February 4th, 2011On the second to last night of Interski the Netherlands’ snowboard team were a man down, due to a shoulder injury. Their demonstration required six snowboarders and they came to the NZ team seeking a substitute – but the sub had to be goofy. With only two goofy-footers on the NZ team, Keith Stubbs stepped up.
Check him out in his Dutch uniform, rocking pink pants! (Why Holland has pink and white for the uniform we never found out)…
Video Summary of Foreign Snowboard Clinics
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011During the Interski week we filmed various bits of workshops that were presented by many of the other snowboarding nations. This video is an edit of this footage, but it’s worth reading the snowboard clinic write-ups before watching this – there was some pretty ‘interesting’ stuff!
BASI Snowboard Clinic
Friday, January 28th, 2011Tony Macri and Matt Phare went to the BASI clinic last week. Here’s the write-up…
Clinic title: Synergetic Strength
Clinic synopsis: The BASI Examiners said they have recently noticed that some instructors who are coming to their high level exams aren’t as balanced on their boards as they would like. To address this they are trying to run some exercises / tasks that focus on being centred in a strong action-ready position. They are trying to develop Synergetic Strength which was described as dynamic stability that allows you to always be ready rather than having to constantly reset your position on the snowboard.
Our summary: The workshop started indoors with Ben Kinear (Technical Director of Snowboard and Vice President of BASI) delivering a brief outline of the day’s workshop on Synergetic Strength. He described Synergetic Strength as dynamic stability and that it allows you to be always ready rather than having to constantly reset. There are five major elements to this focus:
- Mobility/Flexibility
- Strength
- Coordination
- Balance
- Fitness
Video of NZ’s Indoor Lecture
Friday, January 28th, 2011As part of the NZSIA and SBINZ’s clinics that we presented at Interski last week, we gave a 30min indoor lecture about the snow sports industry in New Zealand.
Scotty Dagg did a great job of presenting it, using a number of different short videos in the process. We filmed the whole thing, so here’s the edit…
Video of SBINZ’s Clinics
Thursday, January 27th, 2011Here it is snowboarders; following on from the boys write-ups, a summary video of the SBINZ clinics presented last week at Interski…
It took a while to edit and it’s probably a little long (about 11mins), but it incorporates all the snowboard clinics given at Interski last week, including the indoor section, Fatty and Dooney’s ‘About the NZ System and Coach Approach’ clinic, as well as Dutty and Tommo’s freestyle workshop.
SBINZ Assessment Overview & Coach Approach Clinic
Thursday, January 27th, 2011Last week Mat Philips and Adam Dooney presented a technical clinic about the NZ system, the levels we have and some of the philosophies we use, including ‘coach approach’. Here’s a quick summary from Mat on how the clinic went (video to follow)…
Clinic title: SBINZ Assessment Overview and Coach Approach
Clinic synopsis: Our New Zealand clinics all started with an indoor presentation. Mat and Adam introduced the SBINZ focusing on the diversity of its team and the international flavor they bring to the system, the resources and overall direction of the division.
The rest of the clinic was used to introduce the new concepts in the manual and topics to be covered during the on snow clinic session. They were:
- Our website
- New manual
- Development Options Model
- Performance outcomes
- Levels One, Two, Three and Trainers Cert (assessment levels)
- Coach approach
Our summary: The on-snow session commenced with an introduction to the history of our levels, the introduction of a new level (CSI) to meet industry demand for a domestic qualification and finally renaming our levels to the presents titles of Level One, Two, Three and Trainers.
Mat then rode through one or two key demonstrations required to pass each level while Adam explained the movements or focuses we require for you to be successful at that demo. We also explained how one demos stance and focus movements flow through into the following demos throughout all our levels.
There was a slight break for refreshments and some great conversation kicked off. Back to the clinic and it was time to cover the Trainers cert.
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