PSIA-AASI Keynote: Increasing Gender Equality in Snowsports Instruction
How might Big Sky Resort Mountain Sports School and PSIA-AASI increase gender equality within the highest levels of certification and leadership in snowsports instruction?
Canada (CSIA) – SKI – What We Do! (Technical Concepts)
The CSIA presented their technical concept called ‘The Skills Framework’ at the 2023 Levi InterSki congress. (Note: this is an update with some more information from the previous post entitled “The Skills Framework & How It Can Be Used to Teach”). The...USA (PSIA) – SKI – Observing, Assessing, and Training People Skills
The PSIA presented the People Skills pillar of their Learning Connection Model (LCM) at the 2023 InterSki congress held in Levi, Finland. The other pillars of the LCM are, Technical Skills, and Teaching Skills. In the workshop Kevin, Ann, and Mike highlighted how the...Sweden – SKI – Self Leadership for Ski Instructors
This was the first of 3 workshops presented by Snowsport Sweden during Interski and was lead by Interski Team members Fredric Ericsson and Tess Axen (pictured). The 3 on snow workshops are based on the new work model for Swedish Snowsports which consists of 3 pillars....Canada (CSIA) – SKI – How We Do IT: Teaching Concepts
The Canadian teaching concepts presented in this clinic were based around their ‘Collaborative Teaching Approach’.
Ireland (IASI) – Ski – The Need to Create Adaptable All Mountain Skiers & Riders to Aid with the Guest Experience
The Irish Association of Snowsports Instructors (IASI) technical philosophies, highlighting how they train their instructors and thus their guests to ensure they have the tools required to navigate the whole mountain.
Finland ~ Opening Ceremony ~ Interski 2023
Levi, the BIGGEST snow resort in Finland. The Welcome show to Interski Finland, 2023.
U.K. (BASI) – SKI – Performance Analysis and Skiing
During the BASI indoor session, they discussed how they use analysis as an online resource for their membership. BASI started to build their online learning resources after the 2019 InterSki Congress, this was because of the overwhelming use of online learning from...USA (PSIA) – SKI – Teaching with Learning as the Outcome
PSIA presented their student centered learning model, that promotes learning as the outcome. They explained that they use two way communication to facilitate reflection of the students performance and offer choices for how to adapt the students development further....Australia (APSI) – SKI – Technical Approach
In the presentation Tom Langtry highlighted the APSI skills: Stance, Rotary, Edging, and Pressure Control. These skills work tougher to create the different APSI ski performances that they work on and develop: Skidded, Steered, Carved, Railed, Pure Carved and Mixed Performance.