5 Jul, 2019 | Interski 2019
“Freestyle is for everyone” with Ryan Christofferson – PSIA PSIA, showcasing Ryan Christofferson PSIA freestyle examiner Ryan led a very insightful on snow clinic presenting the PSIA freestyle technique as it relates to the PSIA Alpine Techincal fundamentals. These...
10 Apr, 2019 | Interski 2019
Why Are Korean Skiers So Serious About Their Skiing? Serious Skiers The presentation started with a review of some of the stats and data that Korea had about the number of skiers and skier days in Korea. Historically numbers were increasing, until about 10 years ago,...
10 Apr, 2019 | Interski 2019
Borderless Teaching: The Fun Way What’s the best way to communicate with your students? What’s the best way to communicate when you can’t speak the language your students are speaking? This On and Off Snow clinic were about how to run a good lesson without...
9 Apr, 2019 | Interski 2019
BASI Creating Adaptable Snowsports Instructors The concept of this On-Snow clinic was about creating an outcome focused system so the instructors BASI certified will have room to adjust with body performance wherever they go working as UK isn’t a big skiing nation....
9 Apr, 2019 | Interski 2019
Teaching Teachers To Teach – Reviewing Skills It was day 1 and I went to the BASI workshop that was around teaching teachers to teach and the value of using a review process. It was set up around one trainer (Ben) taking 6 students who volunteered from the group...
8 Apr, 2019 | Interski 2019
Move Smart I had the pleasure of attending the German on snow presentation. The topic was a look into the ‘Move Smart’ program used in the German Teaching system. The move smart program’s purpose is to show how to target the executive brain with a series of cognitive...
8 Apr, 2019 | Interski 2019
NZSIA catches up with Australia Interski Team member Paul Lorenz. This 8 min Vblog starts with footage of the Australian Technical Demos and then goes to the presentation that the Australian Team made, and allows you to get a feeling of what it was like to be there....
5 Apr, 2019 | Interski 2019
Dynamic Short Turn – Korea Style The first thing that was stressed was that in Korea you ski with a low stance. Why ski in a low stance and do lots of Dynamic Short Turns? The Korean presenter told us because – Average height of men is low – Snow is...
5 Apr, 2019 | Interski 2019
Technical Teaching Progression for Beginners Presented by Mark, Luca, David In the Czech system, a Basic Turn is anything before parallel. The presentation was going to look at the different ways that the Czech system teaches Basic Turns. The core process that was...
4 Apr, 2019 | Interski 2019
How We Teach Info To The Human Brain The Croatian On Snow Clinic was presented by Dan, Ivan, and Franio. Some of you might remember Dan as he worked at Coronet Peak for about 6 or 7 years in late 90’s early 00’s – see photo at bottom of article. The...
4 Apr, 2019 | Interski 2019
“We will show you something you’ve never seen before” That was an opening line of this On-Snow Clinic. It was about skis with built-in sensors in the plates to measure the pressure on the skis laterally, longitudinally, and measure the amount of pressure. Having...
2 Apr, 2019 | Interski 2019
NZSIA catches up with the San Marino Interski Team Coach Stefano Belingehri. In this 6min video Stefano gives us a little history of the San Marino Association and goals they have for attending Interski. At the end of the video keep an eye out for San Marino skier...
1 Apr, 2019 | Interski 2019
NZSIA catches up with the USA Interski Team for their onsnow ski technique clinic explaining their Fundamental Elements This 11 min Vblog starts with footage of the PSIA Team’s Technical Demos and then goes to the presentation that the PSIA Team made, and allows...
31 Mar, 2019 | Interski 2019
NZSIA catches up with the Japan Interski Team for their onsnow ski technique clinic. This 11 min Vblog starts with footage of the Japan Team’s Technical Demos and then goes to the presentation that the Japan Team made, and allows you to get a feeling of what it...
29 Mar, 2019 | Interski 2019
NZSIA catches up with the Swiss Interski Team for their onsnow ski technique clinic. This 9 min Vblog starts with footage of the Swiss Technical Demos and then goes to the presentation that the Swiss Team made, and allows you to get a feeling of what it was like to be...
