21 Mar, 2019 | Interski 2019
The indoor clinic we delivered today at Interski looked at SBINZ’s role in helping instructors find the sweet spot to their purpose in the industry. With the theme of Interski 2019 being Future.Snowsports our goal of the clinic was to highlight that in order for...
21 Mar, 2019 | Interski 2019
The on-snow clinic we delivered today at Interski looked at how we balance soft skills and hard skills in the SBINZ system, and what we do as an education body to bridge the gap between the two. Considering the Interski 2019 theme of Future.Snowsports, the utilisation...
20 Mar, 2019 | Interski 2019
Yesterday morning there were several on-snow clinics to choose from. Let me show you the reason I decided to attend this one… When I walked past this set up in the base area I really wanted to know more, so I went and hung out with Gina, representing The...
20 Mar, 2019 | Interski 2019
Yesterday, Claire and I joined in on a multi-sport on-snow clinic presented by the Ula (Urszula), representing Poland. The title of the clinic was “Track on snow as a didactic message”. With a little background homework we discovered that didactics is the theory of...
19 Mar, 2019 | Interski 2019
Yesterday, Leo and I attended the Polish on-snow clinic. It was a massive turn out with 30 attendees and our awesome clinicians Piotr and Jay Jay. The goal was to identify and create extremes in our snowboarding and how this can help our students learning. We did some...
19 Mar, 2019 | Interski 2019
The first snowboard indoor lecture of Interski 2019 was delivered by Sweden, to a full audience of fellow snowboarders from around the world. The organisers (namely Eric Sheckleton) kindly put a snowboard-specific venue in the plans this year, allowing all the looking...
19 Mar, 2019 | Interski 2019
A hot and sunny morning greeted us as we made it to the slopes of Pamporovo resort. This was the first morning of the snowboard clinics and the SBINZ team were excited to see who would show up and how the clinics would roll. Stubbsy and I joined 26 other snowboarders...
8 Oct, 2017 | Interski 2019
Getting a group of instructors and trainers who work at different resorts to all be in the same place at the same time is no easy feat. But we did it, both after hours and on-snow. The topic on everyone’s mind once we got together for an indoor session was...
3 Jul, 2017 | Interski 2019
Last week we ran a tryouts for the “SBINZ Tachnical Team”, which is essentially a group of six instructors/trainers who will work together over the next 18 months to prepare to represent New Zealand snowboarding at Interski in Bulgaria 2019. This team of...
15 Oct, 2015 | Interski 2015
One of the major challenges in the snowsports industry right now is student retention. It was fitting that addressing this issue was major theme of Interski 2015. As you may already know NZSIA/SBINZ has challenged and changed their most basic model of Safety, Fun,...
7 Oct, 2015 | Interski 2015
The NZ season is coming to a close and the NZSIA and SBINZ Interski Team are now managing the time to process our findings and assess our performance. “The busiest week of my life” is a phrase that we’re all hearing ourselves saying on a regular...
12 Sep, 2015 | Interski 2015
Hola from Argentina! Richie Johnston here filling you in with the latest. Hola amigos! A huge week of clinics and socialising has made for an incredible first experience for me and the team in Ushuaia. Cerro Castor Resort has had fresh snow almost every day since we...
11 Sep, 2015 | Interski 2015
Hola de Argentina! Jonsey here at the Fin Del Mundo (End of the world) or as the locals like to call it, El comienzo del mundo (the start of the World). What a place! Well it was another epic day at Cerro Castor resort, the day started off with an exciting bus journey...
3 Sep, 2015 | Interski 2015
Over the past few weeks the Snowboard boys have been focusing on polishing their on-snow clinics, practicing delivering them to each other and a few other selected audiences, and fine tuning them based on feedback given. Two weeks ago, Sam Smith and myself (Keith)...
