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Here’s a summary from Garett of the BASI Ski Workshop last week at Interski.

Clinic title: Learning Styles – Match your teaching to the clients’ needs

Clinic synopsis: The workshop focused on BASI’s ‘Three phases of learning’…
1. Cognitive – In the first stage of learning performances are inconsistent and success is not guaranteed. Performing the skill requires all of the athletes attention and so they rely on the coach for cues.
2. Associative – Performances are becoming more consistent as motor programmes are being formed, The athlete is starting to get a sense of internal ‘kinaesthetic’ feedback when they perform the skill well.
3. Autonomous – In the final stage of learning, performances have become consistent. The motor programmes involved are well learned and stored in the long-term memory.

Our summary: The workshop started with us learning how to a ‘highland sword dance’ (see video of Doug Cleland) the idea being we all will have to work through all three phases of learning, as none of us had ever done it before.
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The Ski Course Director, Stephanie Brown, went along to the Hungarian ski clinic this past week. Here’s her summary of it (check out the video of the Hungarian’s skiing at the bottom)…

Clinic title: The Little Differences in Skiing and How we can Teach the Invisible Aspects of Skiing

Clinic synopsis: Hungary has 300 ski instructors, 600,000 skiers and 4 ski areas. Most of their instructors work in other European Resorts in Austria and Italy. This Clinic explored the Hungarian technique from beginners to advanced skiing from the perspective of focusing on muscular awareness and control.

Our summary: The idea behind this concept is to use something to develop skiing that most people already have some knowledge or awareness of, i.e. use people’s awareness of their bodies and the muscles they use.

The progression was developed using mostly the core muscles from mobility exercises on the flat through to dynamic skiing. The muscles are contracted and relaxed to aid the skiers learning and development. The leg muscles were also coordinated with the core muscles. This contraction and relaxing also helps create rhythm and flow for linked turns.
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Here’s a summary of the Slovenian ski clinic. Check out the video at the bottom…

Clinic title: The Role of a Demo Team Member Working with World Cup Competitors

Clinic synopsis: The Solvenian Demo Team have been training along side their world cup slalom skiers. They have been working through the same progression of development of their high performance skiing. In the clinic they took us through that progression.

Our summary: The key points that the team worked on were as follows;
Centrally balanced position and back cat position-starting point for attack

• Body following – maintaining the shoulder axis in a position that follows the direction of skiing (or the skiers centre of mass) in all phases of the turn
• Max deviation between the skiers centre of mass and skiing line
• Swift knee and ankle movements (both legs at the same time) in every phase of the turn

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