Meet the Interski Alpine Team (Part 2 of 2)

Interski is just around the corner, only 3 weeks away, and most of the Team are not only getting ready for Interski but are also delivering courses and exams in Japan and Europe through this time- busy, busy, busy! Here we have the final instalment of meeting our...

Meet the Interski Alpine Team! (Part 1 of 2)

Interski prep is in full swing with lots on the go as we finalise plans. In this post you’ll meet the Team Members who will be coordinating and driving a diverse range of tasks pre, during, and post Interski.

“Freestyle is for everyone” PSIA

“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...

People Skills Multisport by USA

This topic was setup for delivery over two sessions on the final day of Interski; one in the morning led by US Snowboard Eric Rolls and one in the afternoon led by US skiers Jonathon Ballou and Ann Schorley. From SBINZ, we had one of our team attend in the morning...

VBlog San Marino Interski 2019

NZSIA catches up with the San Marino Interski Team. This quick 2min video has footage of San Marino skiing, with San Marino team member Laura talking us through some of the technical focuses. At the end of the video keep an eye out for San Marino skier Stefano,...

VBlog Austrian Interski On Snow Clinic Interski 2019

NZSIA catches up with the Austrian Interski Team for their onsnow ski technique clinic. This 8 min Vblog starts with footage of the Austrian Demos and then goes to the presentation that the Austrian Team made, and allows you to get a feeling of what it was like to be...

Ski Technical Team Named

After a few big days of try-outs, the NZSIA Ski Technical Team was formed, with 12 people being named to it. This team will be responsible for the evolving the technical aspects of skiing within the NZSIA over the next 3 years. Many of the team members will be...

My Interski Experience: Jiri Nohejl

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...

Adopting the ISIA Card as a southern hemisphere nation

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...

Jon Ahlsén blogs BASI

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 –...

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...