19 Feb, 2016 | Interski 2015
Jiri Nohejl is an NZSIA trainer and examiner as well APUL (Czech) demo team member. Jiri shares his Interski experience… Interski Congress 2015 in Ushuaia is almost half a year behind us, but the strong emotions that I had when participating at this amazing...
12 Jan, 2016 | Interski 2015
Early in the Interski week Mark Cruden delivered an indoor presentation discussing NZSIA’s decision to adopt the ISIA card in 2012 – the first southern hemisphere nation to do so. The presentation sat well under NZ’s banner of attract retain and develop, particularly...
15 Dec, 2015 | Interski 2015
Following Willy Boyd’s article on the Dutch last week we bring you another report on a non alpine nation represented at Interski. Jon Ahlsén blogs BASI… Great Britain – Instructors with transferrable skills I have been assigned with covering what BASI –...
7 Dec, 2015 | Interski 2015
Willy Boyd reports on the Dutch on snow workshop at Interski 2015. With so many on snow workshops and indoor lectures occurring each day during Interski at Ushuaia, our team tried to spread out and see as many different countries as we could. I was fortunate enough to...
3 Dec, 2015 | Interski 2015
Here’s Ben Darlow’s summary of the Canadian message at Interski 2015 The Canadians again sent a strong team of skiers made up from both Eastern and Western Provinces. While I didn’t get to attend any of the Canadian presentations I spent 10 days post...
23 Nov, 2015 | Interski 2015
Tim Cafe provides a report on the Swiss Delegation at Inteski…… The Swiss team at interski really were the whole package. They were killer technical skiers. They were fun, playful skiers; with freestyle skills and some very creative and entertaining passes...
10 Nov, 2015 | Interski 2015
Garett Shore brings us a report on the Australians at Interski Being our closest neighbours and dealing with a similar ski market to us here in NZ, I thought it would be interesting to check out what the Aussies were up to. So I attended their indoor lecture and...
10 Nov, 2015 | Interski 2015
Hi Scotty here. I have been tasked with the pleasure of reporting back on the Croatian Team, I met with their Head coach Danijel Jurkovic, while in Ushuaia. Dan has been involved in as many Interski teams as me; I first met him at Coronet Peak in the earlier days of...
4 Nov, 2015 | Interski 2015
Scott Dagg brings you a wrap up on his indoor presentation delivered with Keith Stubbs from SBINZ… As you all should know by now the Overall theme of NZ this interski was Attract Retain and Develop. Keith Stubbs and I presented the indoor lecture on “Student...
28 Oct, 2015 | Interski 2015
NZSIA Interski team member Ashley Murphy brings you his perspective on PSIA’s contribution to Interski 2015…. The PSIA-AASI presented a comprehensive framework called the Learning Connection throughout the Interski congress. This is largely based around a...
22 Oct, 2015 | Interski 2015
As well as the core NZSIA team, New Zealand was extremely well represented at Interski. Here’s an article from NZSIA trainer (and Swiss demo team member:-)) Celine Arnold, truly one of the stars of Interski 2015 – not that she would ever admit it! My...
20 Oct, 2015 | Interski 2015
Young guns Ben Darlow and Tim Cafe made a great team at Interski 2015. Here’s a wrap of their on snow presentation. The ski team presented two on snow workshops while we were at Interski, as well as a number of indoor workshops and synchro/formation skiing on...
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
One of New Zealand’s strengths at Interski has always been the quality of their on snow presentations. As a group this Interski team worked hard to continue that trend. Over the coming months we will be bringing you run downs on the kiwi workshops from Interski...
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...