The Dutch at Interski

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...

Canada at 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...

Swiss – The True Professionals

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...

Australians at 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...

Croatian Team at Interski

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...

PSIA at 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...

Celine Arnold: The (Kiwi) Swiss Miss talks Interski…

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...

SBINZ: Safety, Fun, Achievement

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,...

NZSIA “achievement versus learning” on snow workshop

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...

The SBINZ “Versatility” Workshop

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...

Thank you from the team

Now that the dust has settled on Interski 2015 it’s timely to acknowledge and thank the people and organisations that have made the NZSIA’s trip to Interski 2015 possible. As many of you will be aware we have had significant support along the way. You can...

Interski from the President’s perspective

My main mission was diplomatic, to touch base with the heads of the other countries delegations where we either have many members working or, of countries where we operate courses. The former was to clarify positions of equivalency so that should our members want to...

Two years in one week

Here’s Mark Cruden’s summary of the week that was Interski 2015… Interski 2015. From NZ’s perspective two years of planning distilled into one supercharged week. Back in Wanaka and catching up with the family I have had a time to reflect on a...