The Ski Instructor Podcast https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com The Ski Instructor Podcast. Interviews with interesting and innovative Ski Instructors and Ski School Directors. Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:42:00 +0200 https://podbean.com/?v=5.5 en Copyright 2019 All rights reserved. Education 1440 episodic The Ski Instructor Podcast. Interviews with interesting and innovative Ski Instructors and Ski School Directors. The Ski Instructor Podcast The Ski Instructor Podcast No true https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/4369178/logo.jpg The Ski Instructor Podcast https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com 144 144 84 - Mark Shaxted, part 2 - IASI Educator and CSIA Course Conductor 84 - Mark Shaxted, part 2 - IASI Educator and CSIA Course Conductor https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/84-mark-shaxted-part-2-iasi-educator-and-csia-course-conductor/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/84-mark-shaxted-part-2-iasi-educator-and-csia-course-conductor/#comments Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:42:00 +0200 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/9c97a264-29a9-3623-9bc4-42ccbb462862 Welcome to episode 84 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this month featuring part 2 of my interview with Mark Shaxted who has been ski teaching for over 25 years and is an IASI Educator and CSIA Course Conductor. Our conversation continues and touches on how to get better at skiing and teaching whilst you're working on a daily basis, how to make a year round living from skiing, knee injury recovery, skiing and teaching in China and much more. Happy listening Dave music by www.bensound.com

]]> Welcome to episode 84 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this month featuring part 2 of my interview with Mark Shaxted who has been ski teaching for over 25 years and is an IASI Educator and CSIA Course Conductor.

Our conversation continues and touches on how to get better at skiing and teaching whilst you're working on a daily basis, how to make a year round living from skiing, knee injury recovery, skiing and teaching in China and much more.

Happy listening
Dave

music by www.bensound.com

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 3866 84 full 83 - Mark Shaxted, part 1 - IASI Educator and CSIA Course Conductor 83 - Mark Shaxted, part 1 - IASI Educator and CSIA Course Conductor https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/83-mark-shaxted-part-1-iasi-educator-and-csia-course-conductor/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/83-mark-shaxted-part-1-iasi-educator-and-csia-course-conductor/#comments Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:08:03 +0100 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/8899bddf-9f29-3281-bdc9-3fa4be08b75c Welcome to episode 83 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this month featuring Mark Shaxted who has been ski teaching for over 25 years and is an IASI Educator and CSIA Course Conductor. I had a great chat with Mark, taking about his back story in skiing and we soon went off on a tangent into topics such as how not to become a cynical ski instructor, how a ski turn actually works and snowplough deniers. This is part 1 of the conversation and part 2 will follow next month.  I had a great time recording this and I think that comes through in the edit. Happy listening Dave music by www.bensound.com

]]> Welcome to episode 83 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this month featuring Mark Shaxted who has been ski teaching for over 25 years and is an IASI Educator and CSIA Course Conductor.

I had a great chat with Mark, taking about his back story in skiing and we soon went off on a tangent into topics such as how not to become a cynical ski instructor, how a ski turn actually works and snowplough deniers.

This is part 1 of the conversation and part 2 will follow next month.  I had a great time recording this and I think that comes through in the edit.

Happy listening
Dave

music by www.bensound.com

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 3977 83 full 82 - Billy Clark part 2 - Billski 82 - Billy Clark part 2 - Billski https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/82-billy-clark-part-2-billski/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/82-billy-clark-part-2-billski/#comments Sat, 21 Feb 2026 11:24:00 +0100 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/a2ae02aa-2da3-34f0-a507-a9d88d7e4522 Welcome to episode 82 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring part 2 of the interview with Billy Clark from Billski. Billski is a ski school that works on the French side of the Portes du Soleil in Morzine, Avoriaz and Les Gets.  I see Bill often on the mountain during the winter but this podcast was recorded in his house in Morzine in the summer. Bill was one of the youngest BASI qualified full cert instructors at the age of 22 and we know a lot of mutual people in and around the area.  This connection really comes through in the interview and it's a friendly and laid back one.

In part 2 of the interview, we chat about Billski, how it got started and has evolved and his approach to marketing.  We also chat about the evolution of the French side of the Portes du Soleil over the years. You can find Billski here - https://billski.co.uk/about-billski/

https://www.instagram.com/billski85/?hl=en https://www.facebook.com/www.billski.co.uk Happy listening Dave www.snow-pros.ski

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> Welcome to episode 82 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring part 2 of the interview with Billy Clark from Billski.

Billski is a ski school that works on the French side of the Portes du Soleil in Morzine, Avoriaz and Les Gets.  I see Bill often on the mountain during the winter but this podcast was recorded in his house in Morzine in the summer.

Bill was one of the youngest BASI qualified full cert instructors at the age of 22 and we know a lot of mutual people in and around the area.  This connection really comes through in the interview and it's a friendly and laid back one.

In part 2 of the interview, we chat about Billski, how it got started and has evolved and his approach to marketing.  We also chat about the evolution of the French side of the Portes du Soleil over the years.

You can find Billski here -

https://billski.co.uk/about-billski/

https://www.instagram.com/billski85/?hl=en
https://www.facebook.com/www.billski.co.uk

Happy listening
Dave

www.snow-pros.ski

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 3750 82 full 81 - Billy Clark - Billski 81 - Billy Clark - Billski https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/81-billy-clark-billski/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/81-billy-clark-billski/#comments Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:37:38 +0100 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/cecd2707-562d-330d-a5fd-194c4462cb28 Welcome to episode 81 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Billy Clark from Billski. Billski is a ski school that works on the French side of the Portes du Soleil in Morzine, Avoriaz and Les Gets.  I see Bill often on the mountain during the winter but this podcast was recorded in his house in Morzine in the summer. Bill was one of the youngest BASI qualified full cert instructors at the age of 22 and we know a lot of mutual people in and around the area.  This connection really comes through in the interview and it's a friendly and laid back one.

In this part 1 of the interview, we chat about Bill's journey to full cert, the people that helped and inspired him along the way and how to approach challenges. You can find Billski here - https://billski.co.uk/about-billski/

https://www.instagram.com/billski85/?hl=en https://www.facebook.com/www.billski.co.uk Happy listening Dave www.snow-pros.ski

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> Welcome to episode 81 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Billy Clark from Billski.

Billski is a ski school that works on the French side of the Portes du Soleil in Morzine, Avoriaz and Les Gets.  I see Bill often on the mountain during the winter but this podcast was recorded in his house in Morzine in the summer.

Bill was one of the youngest BASI qualified full cert instructors at the age of 22 and we know a lot of mutual people in and around the area.  This connection really comes through in the interview and it's a friendly and laid back one.

In this part 1 of the interview, we chat about Bill's journey to full cert, the people that helped and inspired him along the way and how to approach challenges.

You can find Billski here -

https://billski.co.uk/about-billski/

https://www.instagram.com/billski85/?hl=en
https://www.facebook.com/www.billski.co.uk

Happy listening
Dave

www.snow-pros.ski

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 3802 81 full 80 - Joe Dunn part 2 - Ski Dad TV, Instructor at Deer Valley 80 - Joe Dunn part 2 - Ski Dad TV, Instructor at Deer Valley https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/80-joe-dunn-part-2-ski-dad-tv-instrcutor-at-deer-valley/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/80-joe-dunn-part-2-ski-dad-tv-instrcutor-at-deer-valley/#comments Thu, 25 Dec 2025 14:16:00 +0100 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/05dc7ef9-b2e8-39dd-97b0-db5d678b4a76 Happy Christmas to you all and welcome to part 2 and episode 80 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, featuring Joe Dunn, a ski instructor at Deer Valley but you might know him better from his amazing YouTube channel, Ski Dad TV. In this episode we talk about Joe's back story and how he came to be a ski instructor at Deer Valley, wedge christie and PSIA chat, keeping teaching simple and how he started his YouTube channel. It's a great interview full of good energy. You can check out Joe's channel here https://www.youtube.com/@skidadTV Henrik Kristoffersen interview here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/henrik-kristoffersen/id1549121005?i=1000674224528 Happy listening Dave https://www.snow-pros.ski/girls-ski-club-switzerland music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> Happy Christmas to you all and welcome to part 2 and episode 80 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, featuring Joe Dunn, a ski instructor at Deer Valley but you might know him better from his amazing YouTube channel, Ski Dad TV.

In this episode we talk about Joe's back story and how he came to be a ski instructor at Deer Valley, wedge christie and PSIA chat, keeping teaching simple and how he started his YouTube channel.

It's a great interview full of good energy.

You can check out Joe's channel here https://www.youtube.com/@skidadTV

Henrik Kristoffersen interview here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/henrik-kristoffersen/id1549121005?i=1000674224528

Happy listening
Dave

https://www.snow-pros.ski/girls-ski-club-switzerland

music by www.bensound.com





 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 5720 80 full 79 - Joe Dunn, Ski Dad TV, Instructor at Deer Valley part 1 79 - Joe Dunn, Ski Dad TV, Instructor at Deer Valley part 1 https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/78-joe-dunn-ski-dad-tv-instructor-at-deer-valley/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/78-joe-dunn-ski-dad-tv-instructor-at-deer-valley/#comments Thu, 27 Nov 2025 10:43:00 +0100 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/bb0c7ae5-b6cd-33a1-acd1-dc0946ce26a0 Welcome to part 1  of episode 79 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Joe Dunn, a ski instructor at Deer Valley but you might know him better from his amazing YouTube channel, Ski Dad TV. We jump immediately into an in-depth chat about technical skiing, how to introduce people to carving and an in-depth discussion on width of ski.  It's a great interview full of good energy. You can check out Joe's channel here https://www.youtube.com/@skidadTV Happy listening Dave https://www.snow-pros.ski/girls-ski-club-switzerland music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> Welcome to part 1  of episode 79 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Joe Dunn, a ski instructor at Deer Valley but you might know him better from his amazing YouTube channel, Ski Dad TV.

We jump immediately into an in-depth chat about technical skiing, how to introduce people to carving and an in-depth discussion on width of ski.  It's a great interview full of good energy.

You can check out Joe's channel here https://www.youtube.com/@skidadTV

Happy listening
Dave

https://www.snow-pros.ski/girls-ski-club-switzerland

music by www.bensound.com





 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 3925 79 full 78 - Jason Hendy - Impulse Racing and Gloucester Ski Club 78 - Jason Hendy - Impulse Racing and Gloucester Ski Club https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/78-jason-hendy-impulse-racing-and-gloucester-ski-club/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/78-jason-hendy-impulse-racing-and-gloucester-ski-club/#comments Fri, 24 Oct 2025 09:47:00 +0200 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/56b75d3e-572b-3cef-a901-de47e33930b5 Welcome to episode 78 of the podcast, this week featuring Jason Hendy. I worked with Jason this winter at a race we were running in Les Crosets and we started a really interesting chat about ski boots but we didn't get a chance to finish it and that is what this podcast is. It's very much a follow up to episode 77 with Tom Gellie and we touch on a lot of the same topics about boots and this episode deliberately follows that one as a continuation of that topic. Jason has thought deeply about this topic of boots and getting the right set up for you, then the conversation moves on to coaching on the dry slope in the UK, working with kids on a week to week basis and how to go fast on a dry slope. I loved chatting with Jason and it really comes across in this podcast.  You can find Jason here:   https://www.instagram.com/alpin_ish/ https://www.facebook.com/jason.hendy.7 Happy listening Dave dave@snow-pros.ski www.snow-pros.ski/lessons

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]]> Welcome to episode 78 of the podcast, this week featuring Jason Hendy.

I worked with Jason this winter at a race we were running in Les Crosets and we started a really interesting chat about ski boots but we didn't get a chance to finish it and that is what this podcast is.

It's very much a follow up to episode 77 with Tom Gellie and we touch on a lot of the same topics about boots and this episode deliberately follows that one as a continuation of that topic.

Jason has thought deeply about this topic of boots and getting the right set up for you, then the conversation moves on to coaching on the dry slope in the UK, working with kids on a week to week basis and how to go fast on a dry slope.

I loved chatting with Jason and it really comes across in this podcast.  You can find Jason here:  
https://www.instagram.com/alpin_ish/
https://www.facebook.com/jason.hendy.7

Happy listening
Dave
dave@snow-pros.ski
www.snow-pros.ski/lessons

music by www.bensound.com

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 6425 78 full 77 - Tom Gellie, Big Picture Skiing - Skiing in rental boots 77 - Tom Gellie, Big Picture Skiing - Skiing in rental boots https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/77-tom-gellie-big-picture-skiing-skiing-in-rental-boots/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/77-tom-gellie-big-picture-skiing-skiing-in-rental-boots/#comments Thu, 25 Sep 2025 10:15:00 +0200 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/a2801521-375c-3aae-94e8-c1a3c3102573 Welcome to episode 77 of The Ski Instructor Podcast this week featuring Tom Gellie of Big Picture Skiing. This podcast was prompted by a recent viral Facebook post that Tom put together based on his recent experience of skiing in rental boots at Ski Dubai. We talk extensively about the reasons why rental boots are like they are, what the purpose of them are and how quickly you need to get out of them in order to progress. As usual with Tom and I, we ended up on a bunch of tangents about different stuff to do with boots and customising them to suit your own body. To find out more about Tom, you can go back and listen to my previous episode where I interviewed Tom extensively, the link to that is here. https://open.spotify.com/episode/0CaBF1sZ3IG1xkC5PpLqqk?si=IWMpLd0JTLa7D-US3MAHFA I hope you are enjoying skiing wherever you are and I'll catch you on the next episode. Happy listening. Dave dave@snow-pros.ski https://www.snow-pros.ski/ski-lessons music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> Welcome to episode 77 of The Ski Instructor Podcast this week featuring Tom Gellie of Big Picture Skiing.

This podcast was prompted by a recent viral Facebook post that Tom put together based on his recent experience of skiing in rental boots at Ski Dubai.
We talk extensively about the reasons why rental boots are like they are, what the purpose of them are and how quickly you need to get out of them in order to progress.

As usual with Tom and I, we ended up on a bunch of tangents about different stuff to do with boots and customising them to suit your own body.

To find out more about Tom, you can go back and listen to my previous episode where I interviewed Tom extensively, the link to that is here.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0CaBF1sZ3IG1xkC5PpLqqk?si=IWMpLd0JTLa7D-US3MAHFA

I hope you are enjoying skiing wherever you are and I'll catch you on the next episode.

Happy listening.
Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski
https://www.snow-pros.ski/ski-lessons

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 4093 77 full 76 - Anna Norlin Berg and Joel Baudin - Swedish Ski Instructors, school directors, examiners and demo team, Skidlärarpodden 76 - Anna Norlin Berg and Joel Baudin - Swedish Ski Instructors, school directors, examiners and demo team, Skidlärarpodden https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/76-anna-norlin-berg-and-joel-baudin-swedish-ski-instructors-school-directors-examiners-and-demo-team-skidlararpodden/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/76-anna-norlin-berg-and-joel-baudin-swedish-ski-instructors-school-directors-examiners-and-demo-team-skidlararpodden/#comments Tue, 26 Aug 2025 11:56:08 +0200 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/06b2c9f1-3c30-3ef3-bdc3-f17f1d66e52a Welcome to episode 76 of the Ski Instructor Podcast, featuring Anna Norlin Berg and Joel Baudin. Anna and Joel are the hosts of the popular Swedish ski instructor podcast 'Skidlärarpodden'.  When they aren't doing that, Joel and Anna are working ski instructors.  

Joel runs the ski school in Kittelfjäll and is an instructor and course leader within Friluftsfrämjandet (The Swedish Outdoor Organization) for the past eight years. He's involved in instructor education through Friluftsfrämjandet and is a passionate moguls skier. Anna is involved in training leaders and ski instructors in Friluftsfämjandet, and is chairman of the Swedish ski exams. She is an Alpine ski coach in Kungsbergets AK for U14 and U16. She was a member of the Swedish demo team in Pomporovo and Levi.

We had a very wide ranging chat covering the backstory for Anna and Joel, instructor systems in Sweden, the technical models, hockey (again, sorry!), interski and falling off of bicycles. I loved chatting with these two and it's a fun interview.  If you'd like to listen to the interview that they did with me, you can find it here: https://skidlararpodden.se/episodes/dave-burrows-on-coaching-community-and-carving-your-own-path-in-the-alps Happy listening Dave

]]> Welcome to episode 76 of the Ski Instructor Podcast, featuring Anna Norlin Berg and Joel Baudin.

Anna and Joel are the hosts of the popular Swedish ski instructor podcast 'Skidlärarpodden'.  When they aren't doing that, Joel and Anna are working ski instructors.  

Joel runs the ski school in Kittelfjäll and is an instructor and course leader within Friluftsfrämjandet (The Swedish Outdoor Organization) for the past eight years. He's involved in instructor education through Friluftsfrämjandet and is a passionate moguls skier.

Anna is involved in training leaders and ski instructors in Friluftsfämjandet, and is chairman of the Swedish ski exams. She is an Alpine ski coach in Kungsbergets AK for U14 and U16.
She was a member of the Swedish demo team in Pomporovo and Levi.

We had a very wide ranging chat covering the backstory for Anna and Joel, instructor systems in Sweden, the technical models, hockey (again, sorry!), interski and falling off of bicycles.

I loved chatting with these two and it's a fun interview.  If you'd like to listen to the interview that they did with me, you can find it here:
https://skidlararpodden.se/episodes/dave-burrows-on-coaching-community-and-carving-your-own-path-in-the-alps

Happy listening
Dave

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 7533 76 full 75 - Max Colvin, Director of Snowsports SnowPros Ski School, Hand Laid Eggs Surfboards 75 - Max Colvin, Director of Snowsports SnowPros Ski School, Hand Laid Eggs Surfboards https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/75-max-colvin-director-of-snowsports-snowpros-ski-school-hand-laid-eggs-surfboards/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/75-max-colvin-director-of-snowsports-snowpros-ski-school-hand-laid-eggs-surfboards/#comments Thu, 24 Jul 2025 11:39:38 +0200 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/1c6172a2-e80b-32ea-a961-8b5f14818f76 Welcome to episode 75 of the Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Max Colvin, who you would have heard of me talk about on the podcast previously and who is the SnowPros Ski School Director of Snowsports.

Max holds the Valasian Patente and looks after the team here at SnowPros. I find Max to be an incredibly interesting guy who thinks deeply about skiing and everything else and I just had to get an interview with him for the pod. We touched on lots of different topics, to do with how we teach skiing, our journeys to full cert, how surfing differs from snowsports and plenty more. Max runs a successful surfboard manufacturing company, Hand Laid Eggs and if you surf, you should definitley check out his boards https://www.handlaideggs.co.uk/ he cares deeply about what he does. You can tell from this episode that Max and I know each other quite well by now.  The interview is very relaxed and is a real deparature in style from the usual interview. Happy listening and see you on the next one. Dave dave@snow-pros.ski www.snow-pros.ski

 

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> Welcome to episode 75 of the Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Max Colvin, who you would have heard of me talk about on the podcast previously and who is the SnowPros Ski School Director of Snowsports.

Max holds the Valasian Patente and looks after the team here at SnowPros. I find Max to be an incredibly interesting guy who thinks deeply about skiing and everything else and I just had to get an interview with him for the pod.

We touched on lots of different topics, to do with how we teach skiing, our journeys to full cert, how surfing differs from snowsports and plenty more.

Max runs a successful surfboard manufacturing company, Hand Laid Eggs and if you surf, you should definitley check out his boards https://www.handlaideggs.co.uk/ he cares deeply about what he does.

You can tell from this episode that Max and I know each other quite well by now.  The interview is very relaxed and is a real deparature in style from the usual interview.

Happy listening and see you on the next one.
Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski

www.snow-pros.ski

 

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 7319 75 full 74 - Donna Clarke, President of the Regional Performance Centre - Ski Team Dents du Midi 74 - Donna Clarke, President of the Regional Performance Centre - Ski Team Dents du Midi https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/74-donna-clarke-president-of-the-regional-performance-centre-ski-team-dents-du-midi/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/74-donna-clarke-president-of-the-regional-performance-centre-ski-team-dents-du-midi/#comments Sun, 15 Jun 2025 10:37:00 +0200 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/78f9f1fc-51f6-3c73-af33-16cb829e53f3 Welcome to episode 74 of the Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Donna Clarke who is the President of the Regional Performance Centre for the Ski Team Dents du Midi here in Calais, Switzerland. The Dents du Midi is the local region around where I live and Donna is responsible for the structure bringing young skiers through and then onto Ski Valais and then the regional Swiss age group teams. We had a long and wide ranging chat about making speed on the flat, her story as to how she ended up here in the alps, coaching kids in the ski team and how to keep kids in the program. We also chat about equipment, amazing local skiers and so much more. You can find out more about the ski team here: https://skiteamdentsdumidi.ch/ and if you would like to contact Donna, you can find her through facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/donnah.corminboeufclarke happy listening Dave dave@snow-pros.ski www.snow-pros.ski/instructors

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> Welcome to episode 74 of the Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Donna Clarke who is the President of the Regional Performance Centre for the Ski Team Dents du Midi here in Calais, Switzerland.

The Dents du Midi is the local region around where I live and Donna is responsible for the structure bringing young skiers through and then onto Ski Valais and then the regional Swiss age group teams.

We had a long and wide ranging chat about making speed on the flat, her story as to how she ended up here in the alps, coaching kids in the ski team and how to keep kids in the program.

We also chat about equipment, amazing local skiers and so much more.

You can find out more about the ski team here:
https://skiteamdentsdumidi.ch/
and if you would like to contact Donna, you can find her through facebook here:
https://www.facebook.com/donnah.corminboeufclarke

happy listening
Dave
dave@snow-pros.ski
www.snow-pros.ski/instructors

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 8280 74 full 73 - Alec and Max Allcock part 2, The SnowBoard Instructor Podcast, ski and snowboard instructors 73 - Alec and Max Allcock part 2, The SnowBoard Instructor Podcast, ski and snowboard instructors https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/73-alec-and-max-allcock-part-2-the-snowboard-instructor-podcast-ski-and-snowboard-instructors/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/73-alec-and-max-allcock-part-2-the-snowboard-instructor-podcast-ski-and-snowboard-instructors/#comments Thu, 15 May 2025 15:29:53 +0200 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/7e615d8e-b24e-361b-820d-1b0694249b07 Welcome to episode 73 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Alec and Max Allcock.  This is part 2 of a 2 part episode. Alec and Max are the hosts of The Snowboard Instructor Podcast,

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-snowboard-instructor-podcast/id1536803884

https://open.spotify.com/show/4ZtzwBFqrdQlOtbonKZxPp?si=SHI0R19fRymK6_Sk-88_xA

https://thesnowboardinstructorpodcas.buzzsprout.com/ https://www.instagram.com/snowboardinstructorpodcast/

Alec and Max have spent a lot of time and done some amazing interviews on their podcast and bring a unique perspective to our interview because they are both working ski instructors working their way through various instructor systems.   I talk to the guys about skiing at a higher level and things learnt about skiing going through various training.  We also chatted about fixed boot snowboarding, GS training and retro equipment. At the time of the interview, Alec was in New Zealand working as a ski and snowboard instructor there.  Max works in the film industry and teaches snowboarding in the UK. You can find the guys here: https://www.instagram.com/maxpowerlighting/ https://www.instagram.com/alec_john98

happy listening Dave www.snow-pros.ski/lessons dave@snow-pros.ski music by www.bensound.com

]]> Welcome to episode 73 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Alec and Max Allcock.  This is part 2 of a 2 part episode.

Alec and Max are the hosts of The Snowboard Instructor Podcast,

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-snowboard-instructor-podcast/id1536803884

https://open.spotify.com/show/4ZtzwBFqrdQlOtbonKZxPp?si=SHI0R19fRymK6_Sk-88_xA

https://thesnowboardinstructorpodcas.buzzsprout.com/
https://www.instagram.com/snowboardinstructorpodcast/

Alec and Max have spent a lot of time and done some amazing interviews on their podcast and bring a unique perspective to our interview because they are both working ski instructors working their way through various instructor systems.  

I talk to the guys about skiing at a higher level and things learnt about skiing going through various training.  We also chatted about fixed boot snowboarding, GS training and retro equipment.

At the time of the interview, Alec was in New Zealand working as a ski and snowboard instructor there.  Max works in the film industry and teaches snowboarding in the UK.

You can find the guys here:

https://www.instagram.com/maxpowerlighting/
https://www.instagram.com/alec_john98


happy listening
Dave

www.snow-pros.ski/lessons

dave@snow-pros.ski

music by www.bensound.com

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 3077 73 full 72 - Alec and Max Allcock part 1 - The Snowboard Instructor Podcast, ski and snowboard instructors 72 - Alec and Max Allcock part 1 - The Snowboard Instructor Podcast, ski and snowboard instructors https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/72-alec-and-max-allcock-the-snowboard-instructor-podcast-and-ski-and-snowboard-instructors/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/72-alec-and-max-allcock-the-snowboard-instructor-podcast-and-ski-and-snowboard-instructors/#comments Wed, 26 Mar 2025 13:47:35 +0100 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/f761f5c7-76c5-31fa-866b-415a1deb8ec7 Welcome to episode 72 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Alec and Max Allcock.  This is part 1 of a 2 part episode. Alec and Max are the hosts of The Snowboard Instructor Podcast,

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-snowboard-instructor-podcast/id1536803884

https://open.spotify.com/show/4ZtzwBFqrdQlOtbonKZxPp?si=SHI0R19fRymK6_Sk-88_xA

https://thesnowboardinstructorpodcas.buzzsprout.com/ https://www.instagram.com/snowboardinstructorpodcast/

Alec and Max have spent a lot of time and done some amazing interviews on their podcast and bring a unique perspective to our interview because they are both working ski instructors working their way through various instructor systems.   At the time of the interview, Alec was in New Zealand working as a ski and snowboard instructor there.  Max works in the film industry and teaches snowboarding in the UK. We chat about life working through various systems, differences and similarities between skiing and snowboarding You can find the guys here: https://www.instagram.com/maxpowerlighting/ https://www.instagram.com/alec_john98

happy listening Dave www.snow-pros.ski/lessons dave@snow-pros.ski music by www.bensound.com

]]> Welcome to episode 72 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Alec and Max Allcock.  This is part 1 of a 2 part episode.

Alec and Max are the hosts of The Snowboard Instructor Podcast,

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-snowboard-instructor-podcast/id1536803884

https://open.spotify.com/show/4ZtzwBFqrdQlOtbonKZxPp?si=SHI0R19fRymK6_Sk-88_xA

https://thesnowboardinstructorpodcas.buzzsprout.com/
https://www.instagram.com/snowboardinstructorpodcast/

Alec and Max have spent a lot of time and done some amazing interviews on their podcast and bring a unique perspective to our interview because they are both working ski instructors working their way through various instructor systems.  

At the time of the interview, Alec was in New Zealand working as a ski and snowboard instructor there.  Max works in the film industry and teaches snowboarding in the UK.

We chat about life working through various systems, differences and similarities between skiing and snowboarding

You can find the guys here:

https://www.instagram.com/maxpowerlighting/
https://www.instagram.com/alec_john98


happy listening
Dave

www.snow-pros.ski/lessons

dave@snow-pros.ski

music by www.bensound.com

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 3897 72 full 71 - Steve Hindman part 2, SnowPros Ski School, ES Verbier, Telluride, PSIA Demo Team member 71 - Steve Hindman part 2, SnowPros Ski School, ES Verbier, Telluride, PSIA Demo Team member https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/71-steve-hindman-part-2-snowpros-ski-school-es-verbier-telluride-psia-demo-team-member/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/71-steve-hindman-part-2-snowpros-ski-school-es-verbier-telluride-psia-demo-team-member/#comments Fri, 14 Feb 2025 10:56:00 +0100 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/ac670a4c-d580-39d1-9ef0-0f5b2eea62d0 Welcome to episode 71 of the Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Steve Hindman. This interview was made on a hot sunny day in Geneva and part 2 of this episode is Steve and myself chatting more technically about the similarities and differences between nordic, cross country and alpine skiing.  We also touch on teaching styles, teaching terrains, PSIA chat and being an American in Switzerland. Steve is a former US Demo team for nordic and cross country skiing as well as a telemark.    We touch on the topic of a movie that Steve may or may not have been in here: https://youtu.be/KJ0Z8GOGnS0?si=IPjBlapRvbDsaDz0

You can get in touch with Steve for professional coaching for skiing or just life in general: https://stevehindmancoach.com

Happy listening Dave dave@snow-pros.ski www.snow-pros.ski/lessons music by www.bensound.com

]]> Welcome to episode 71 of the Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Steve Hindman.

This interview was made on a hot sunny day in Geneva and part 2 of this episode is Steve and myself chatting more technically about the similarities and differences between nordic, cross country and alpine skiing.  We also touch on teaching styles, teaching terrains, PSIA chat and being an American in Switzerland.

Steve is a former US Demo team for nordic and cross country skiing as well as a telemark.   

We touch on the topic of a movie that Steve may or may not have been in here:

https://youtu.be/KJ0Z8GOGnS0?si=IPjBlapRvbDsaDz0

You can get in touch with Steve for professional coaching for skiing or just life in general: https://stevehindmancoach.com



Happy listening
Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski

www.snow-pros.ski/lessons

music by www.bensound.com

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 4633 71 full 70 - Steve Hindman part 1, SnowPros Ski School, ES Verbier, Telluride, PSIA Demo Team member 70 - Steve Hindman part 1, SnowPros Ski School, ES Verbier, Telluride, PSIA Demo Team member https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/70-steve-hindman-part-1-es-verbier-snowpros-ski-school-telluride-psia-demo-team-member/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/70-steve-hindman-part-1-es-verbier-snowpros-ski-school-telluride-psia-demo-team-member/#comments Thu, 16 Jan 2025 14:37:45 +0100 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/13ff5f65-7535-3cdc-aba2-eb57ee9a03c5 Welcome to episode 70 (!) of the Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Steve Hindman. This interview was made on a hot sunny day in Geneva and part 1 of this episode is Steve and myself chatting about his skiing journey through life, differences between US and European skiing and a bunch of other tangents. Steve is a former US Demo team for nordic and cross country skiing as well as a telemark.    We touch on the topic of a movie that Steve may or may not have been in here: https://youtu.be/KJ0Z8GOGnS0?si=IPjBlapRvbDsaDz0

You can get in touch with Steve for professional coaching for skiing or just life in general: https://stevehindmancoach.com

Happy listening Dave dave@snow-pros.ski www.snow-pros.ski/lessons music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> Welcome to episode 70 (!) of the Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Steve Hindman.

This interview was made on a hot sunny day in Geneva and part 1 of this episode is Steve and myself chatting about his skiing journey through life, differences between US and European skiing and a bunch of other tangents.

Steve is a former US Demo team for nordic and cross country skiing as well as a telemark.   

We touch on the topic of a movie that Steve may or may not have been in here:

https://youtu.be/KJ0Z8GOGnS0?si=IPjBlapRvbDsaDz0

You can get in touch with Steve for professional coaching for skiing or just life in general: https://stevehindmancoach.com


Happy listening
Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski

www.snow-pros.ski/lessons

music by www.bensound.com



 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 6095 70 full 69 - Warren Jobbitt, www.warrenjobbitt.com , CSIA Hall of Famer 69 - Warren Jobbitt, www.warrenjobbitt.com , CSIA Hall of Famer https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/69-warren-jobbitt-wwwwarrenjobbittskicom-csia-hall-of-famer/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/69-warren-jobbitt-wwwwarrenjobbittskicom-csia-hall-of-famer/#comments Mon, 02 Dec 2024 11:33:42 +0100 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/96ae604a-2483-39c2-a039-e62dd49f0b25 Welcome to episode 69 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this episode featuring Warren Jobbitt. This interview I think is one of my best and I had an engaging and enlightening conversation with Warren across a wide variety of subjects. We started off talking about skiing in Chile and his recent induction (for the second time) into the CSIA Hall of Fame. We moved on to chat about technical skiing and teaching, skating (again) and the direction of the CSIA education committee.  We finished off chatting about his Ultimate Ski Congress and what he has coming up this winter. You can find Warren at www.warrenjobbitt.com Happy listening Dave Dave@snow-pros.ski www.snow-pros.ski music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> Welcome to episode 69 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this episode featuring Warren Jobbitt.

This interview I think is one of my best and I had an engaging and enlightening conversation with Warren across a wide variety of subjects.

We started off talking about skiing in Chile and his recent induction (for the second time) into the CSIA Hall of Fame.

We moved on to chat about technical skiing and teaching, skating (again) and the direction of the CSIA education committee.  We finished off chatting about his Ultimate Ski Congress and what he has coming up this winter.

You can find Warren at www.warrenjobbitt.com

Happy listening
Dave

Dave@snow-pros.ski
www.snow-pros.ski

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 7165 69 full 68 - Scott Hammond, IASI Educator, Hajfell Ski School 68 - Scott Hammond, IASI Educator, Hajfell Ski School https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/68-scott-hammond-iasi-educator-hajfell-ski-school/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/68-scott-hammond-iasi-educator-hajfell-ski-school/#comments Thu, 07 Nov 2024 11:25:42 +0100 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/295865a6-9a72-3275-8cad-e26866056e0f Welcome to episode 68 of the Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Scott Hammond. Scott is the technical director at Hafjell Ski School in Norway and is an IASI educator for both Alpine and Telemark. I had a great chat with Scott about the roundabout way he ended up in Norway, what it is like to ski and teach there, his work with IASI, instagram skiers and much more. You can find Scott at the Hafjell Ski School here: https://hafjell.skischool.shop/en/kids-teens/

and follow the youtube page he talked about in the episode here:

https://youtube.com/@wefreeski?si=AziLpTxwOnukOC3q

Happy listening Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski

www.snow-pros.ski/resorts

 

music by www.bensound.com

 

 

 

]]> Welcome to episode 68 of the Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Scott Hammond.

Scott is the technical director at Hafjell Ski School in Norway and is an IASI educator for both Alpine and Telemark.

I had a great chat with Scott about the roundabout way he ended up in Norway, what it is like to ski and teach there, his work with IASI, instagram skiers and much more.

You can find Scott at the Hafjell Ski School here:
https://hafjell.skischool.shop/en/kids-teens/

and follow the youtube page he talked about in the episode here:

https://youtube.com/@wefreeski?si=AziLpTxwOnukOC3q


Happy listening
Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski

www.snow-pros.ski/resorts

 

music by www.bensound.com

 

 

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 5146 68 full 67 - Jamie Kagan - Sommet et Neige, Nendaz and PSIE Founder 67 - Jamie Kagan - Sommet et Neige, Nendaz and PSIE Founder https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/67-jamie-kagan-sommet-et-neige-nendaz-and-psie-founder/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/67-jamie-kagan-sommet-et-neige-nendaz-and-psie-founder/#comments Tue, 24 Sep 2024 10:21:03 +0200 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/f7d2ee2a-0509-3beb-8c59-3d3861703032 Welcome to episode 67 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Jamie Kagan.  Jamie was on the pod recently with Derek Tate talking about the Professional Ski Instructors of Europe. This episode we chat about his ski school, training centre and retail shop based in Nendaz. We talked about Jamie's long and winding journey to making a life in Switzerland, building his various businesses, training ski instructors and IASI, PSIE and Interski. I did this interview in person with Jamie in Nendaz and I always think that chemistry shows in these in person interviews.  I very much enjoyed the coffee and chat with a like minded soul. You can find Jamie at https://www.sommet-et-neige.com/en https://www.instagram.com/sommet_et_neige/ https://www.instagram.com/nendaz_ski_school_es/?hl=en happy listening Dave dave@snow-pros.ski https://www.snow-pros.ski/clubs-courses music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> Welcome to episode 67 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Jamie Kagan.  Jamie was on the pod recently with Derek Tate talking about the Professional Ski Instructors of Europe.

This episode we chat about his ski school, training centre and retail shop based in Nendaz.

We talked about Jamie's long and winding journey to making a life in Switzerland, building his various businesses, training ski instructors and IASI, PSIE and Interski.

I did this interview in person with Jamie in Nendaz and I always think that chemistry shows in these in person interviews.  I very much enjoyed the coffee and chat with a like minded soul.

You can find Jamie at https://www.sommet-et-neige.com/en
https://www.instagram.com/sommet_et_neige/
https://www.instagram.com/nendaz_ski_school_es/?hl=en

happy listening
Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski

https://www.snow-pros.ski/clubs-courses

music by www.bensound.com


 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 5090 67 full 66 - Ali Gibb and Rachel Kerr - Women's Mountain Club 66 - Ali Gibb and Rachel Kerr - Women's Mountain Club https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/66-ali-gibb-and-rachel-kerr-womens-mountain-club/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/66-ali-gibb-and-rachel-kerr-womens-mountain-club/#comments Tue, 20 Aug 2024 14:08:25 +0200 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/cc333b6e-0aa7-3e24-a445-54b24706729d Welcome to episode 66 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Ali Gibb and Rachel Kerr of the Women's Mountain Club. The Women's Mountain Club is a year round club for women doing all sorts of mountain activities.  It originally started with skiing but has expanded in recent years to include hiking, biking, climbing and a bunch of other stuff too. I talk to Ali and Rach about their journey towards becoming fully certified instructors in France, how the WMC came about, cuckoo clocks, periods, gender differences in learning, why female only groups work and a whole bunch of other stuff. It's a great interview if I do say so myself and I think you'll really enjoy it.

Find Women's Mountain Club here: https://www.womensmountainclub.com/

Find Ali here: https://thesnowinstitute.com/ski-instructors/#AliGibb Find Rachel here: https://www.rachelkerr.me/ happy listening Dave dave@snow-pros.ski

www.snow-pros.ski/lessons

 

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> Welcome to episode 66 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Ali Gibb and Rachel Kerr of the Women's Mountain Club.

The Women's Mountain Club is a year round club for women doing all sorts of mountain activities.  It originally started with skiing but has expanded in recent years to include hiking, biking, climbing and a bunch of other stuff too.

I talk to Ali and Rach about their journey towards becoming fully certified instructors in France, how the WMC came about, cuckoo clocks, periods, gender differences in learning, why female only groups work and a whole bunch of other stuff.

It's a great interview if I do say so myself and I think you'll really enjoy it.

Find Women's Mountain Club here: https://www.womensmountainclub.com/


Find Ali here: https://thesnowinstitute.com/ski-instructors/#AliGibb

Find Rachel here: https://www.rachelkerr.me/


happy listening
Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski

www.snow-pros.ski/lessons

 

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 6057 66 full 65 - Stefano Carlin, Ski Zenit 65 - Stefano Carlin, Ski Zenit https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/65-stefano-carlin-ski-zenit/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/65-stefano-carlin-ski-zenit/#comments Fri, 12 Jul 2024 16:57:16 +0200 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e47e2f1e-51b7-3cbb-a05d-3555c4ee87c1 Welcome to episode 65 of the Ski Instructor Podcast from a rainy Val-d'Illiez. This weeks episode features Stefano Carlin from Ski Zenit.  Ski Zenit aren't a traditional ski school in that they do a mix of normal ski school stuff in Saas Fee and Zinal in Valais, Switzerland, but they also do race coaching and camps over the summer in Saas Fee as well as ski coaching in more exotic places like China. We talked about Stefano, his long and roundabout journey to becoming a ski pro, how Ski Zenit came about, summer skiing and the future of glacier skiing, keeping healthy in the season, sparrows, dog chat in spanish and much more. It was a great chat and i loved Stefano's laid back and funny style.  You can find him at: www.skizenit.ch

www.skiracingcamps.ch

Happy listening Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski

www.snow-pros.ski/villars

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> Welcome to episode 65 of the Ski Instructor Podcast from a rainy Val-d'Illiez.

This weeks episode features Stefano Carlin from Ski Zenit.  Ski Zenit aren't a traditional ski school in that they do a mix of normal ski school stuff in Saas Fee and Zinal in Valais, Switzerland, but they also do race coaching and camps over the summer in Saas Fee as well as ski coaching in more exotic places like China.

We talked about Stefano, his long and roundabout journey to becoming a ski pro, how Ski Zenit came about, summer skiing and the future of glacier skiing, keeping healthy in the season, sparrows, dog chat in spanish and much more.

It was a great chat and i loved Stefano's laid back and funny style.  You can find him at:

www.skizenit.ch

www.skiracingcamps.ch

Happy listening
Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski

www.snow-pros.ski/villars

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 6086 65 full 64 - Tom Gellie revisited part 2, Big Picture Skiing 64 - Tom Gellie revisited part 2, Big Picture Skiing https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/64-tom-gellie-revisited-part-2-big-picture-skiing/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/64-tom-gellie-revisited-part-2-big-picture-skiing/#comments Fri, 31 May 2024 10:27:00 +0200 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/05e58b79-3b07-3089-b20b-2ca6842fd7ed Welcome to episode 64 of The Ski Instructor Podcast. One of my big regrets of all of the previous episodes that I have recorded was the poor sound quality on the original Tom Gellie episode.  So I got back in touch with Tom to have another long chat about skiing and the latest development and direction that he has gone with his business, Big Picture Skiing.  This is part 2 of a 2 part conversation and we did this in two different seasons, once in June 2023 before the Australian ski season and the second part in November 2023, just before the start of this winter. We had a great conversation (with decent sound!) and talked in this second part about how you know what you know to be true,  why rotational and lateral separation matters, monoboard racing, long skis in the bumps, snow types and the brain as a prediction machine. I love chatting with Tom and I think this really comes through in the podcast. If you want to find Tom, you can go to his website www.bigpictureskiing.com

Happy listening

Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski www.snow-pros.ski/lessons

 

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> Welcome to episode 64 of The Ski Instructor Podcast.

One of my big regrets of all of the previous episodes that I have recorded was the poor sound quality on the original Tom Gellie episode.  So I got back in touch with Tom to have another long chat about skiing and the latest development and direction that he has gone with his business, Big Picture Skiing. 

This is part 2 of a 2 part conversation and we did this in two different seasons, once in June 2023 before the Australian ski season and the second part in November 2023, just before the start of this winter.

We had a great conversation (with decent sound!) and talked in this second part about how you know what you know to be true,  why rotational and lateral separation matters, monoboard racing, long skis in the bumps, snow types and the brain as a prediction machine.

I love chatting with Tom and I think this really comes through in the podcast.

If you want to find Tom, you can go to his website www.bigpictureskiing.com


Happy listening

Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski
www.snow-pros.ski/lessons

 

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 4789 64 full 63 - Professional Ski Instructors of Europe (PSIE) - Derek Tate and Jamie Kagan 63 - Professional Ski Instructors of Europe (PSIE) - Derek Tate and Jamie Kagan https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/63-professional-ski-instructors-of-europe-psie-derek-tate-and-jamie-sagan/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/63-professional-ski-instructors-of-europe-psie-derek-tate-and-jamie-sagan/#comments Wed, 01 May 2024 13:48:00 +0200 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/033f323e-99a4-36bd-b337-d46e9309dcab Welcome to episode 63 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Jamie Kagan and Derek Tate of the Professional Ski Instructors of Europe (PSIE). The PSIE is a sister organisation of the PSIC, Professional Ski Instructors of Canada and shares much of the same pathway and framework as that organisation.  There will be tweaks to the pathway for the PSIE that will make it compatible with European marketplace needs. We talk about what the guys are trying to do with the new association and how it aims to complement existing instructor associations in Europe.  We talk in depth about what it offers ski instructors and where it is recognised. To find out more about the PSIE, go to www.psie.pro

I had a great time making this episode and I hope you enjoy listening. Dave dave@snow-pros.ski

www.snow-pros.ski/lessons

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> Welcome to episode 63 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Jamie Kagan and Derek Tate of the Professional Ski Instructors of Europe (PSIE).

The PSIE is a sister organisation of the PSIC, Professional Ski Instructors of Canada and shares much of the same pathway and framework as that organisation.  There will be tweaks to the pathway for the PSIE that will make it compatible with European marketplace needs.

We talk about what the guys are trying to do with the new association and how it aims to complement existing instructor associations in Europe.  We talk in depth about what it offers ski instructors and where it is recognised.

To find out more about the PSIE, go to www.psie.pro

I had a great time making this episode and I hope you enjoy listening.

Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski

www.snow-pros.ski/lessons

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 4847 63 full 62 - Tom Gellie revisited part 1 - Big Picture Skiing 62 - Tom Gellie revisited part 1 - Big Picture Skiing https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/62-tom-gellie-revisited-part-2-big-picture-skiing/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/62-tom-gellie-revisited-part-2-big-picture-skiing/#comments Mon, 11 Mar 2024 16:12:46 +0100 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/690286b9-a386-37f7-bac1-a8fadac57343 Welcome to episode 62 of The Ski Instructor Podcast. One of my big regrets of all of the previous episodes that I have recorded was the poor sound quality on the original Tom Gellie episode.  So I got back in touch with Tom to have another long chat about skiing and the latest development and direction that he has gone with his business, Big Picture Skiing. This is part 1 of a 2 part conversation and we did this in two different seasons, once in June 2023 before the Australian ski season and the second part in November 2023, just before the start of this winter. We had a great conversation (with decent sound!) and talked about Tom's online ski coaching business, ski boots, telemark (again, sorry) and flow state.  I love chatting with Tom and I think this really comes through in the podcast. If you want to find Tom, you can go to his website www.bigpictureskiing.com

Happy listening Dave dave@snow-pros.ski www.snow-pros.ski/lessons music by www.bensound.com

]]> Welcome to episode 62 of The Ski Instructor Podcast.

One of my big regrets of all of the previous episodes that I have recorded was the poor sound quality on the original Tom Gellie episode.  So I got back in touch with Tom to have another long chat about skiing and the latest development and direction that he has gone with his business, Big Picture Skiing.

This is part 1 of a 2 part conversation and we did this in two different seasons, once in June 2023 before the Australian ski season and the second part in November 2023, just before the start of this winter.

We had a great conversation (with decent sound!) and talked about Tom's online ski coaching business, ski boots, telemark (again, sorry) and flow state. 

I love chatting with Tom and I think this really comes through in the podcast.

If you want to find Tom, you can go to his website www.bigpictureskiing.com


Happy listening
Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski
www.snow-pros.ski/lessons

music by www.bensound.com

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 5011 62 full 61 - Deb Armstrong - Olympic Gold Medallist and YouTube superstar 61 - Deb Armstrong - Olympic Gold Medallist and YouTube superstar https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/61-deb-armstrong-olympic-gold-medallist-and-youtube-superstar/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/61-deb-armstrong-olympic-gold-medallist-and-youtube-superstar/#comments Tue, 30 Jan 2024 16:00:47 +0100 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/1b96117a-465b-3e3b-a01b-d78095150208 Welcome to Episode 61 of The Ski Instructor Podcast. This week my guest probably needs no introduction as you will have all seen Deb's YouTube channel http://www.youtube.com/@DebArmstrongSkiStrong but you probably haven't read her bio on what an extraordinary athlete she was in the 70's and 80's, culminating in her greatest success, the GS women's gold medal in the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo in 1984. We had a great chat about all aspects of skiing.  How the channel came about and her early formative years of skiing that lead up to such amazing success. This was a great conversation with such good energy.  I hope you enjoy it. happy listening Dave dave@snow-pros.ski www.snow-pros.ski/resorts music by www.bensound.com

 

 

]]> Welcome to Episode 61 of The Ski Instructor Podcast.

This week my guest probably needs no introduction as you will have all seen Deb's YouTube channel http://www.youtube.com/@DebArmstrongSkiStrong but you probably haven't read her bio on what an extraordinary athlete she was in the 70's and 80's, culminating in her greatest success, the GS women's gold medal in the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo in 1984.

We had a great chat about all aspects of skiing.  How the channel came about and her early formative years of skiing that lead up to such amazing success.

This was a great conversation with such good energy.  I hope you enjoy it.

happy listening
Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski
www.snow-pros.ski/resorts


music by www.bensound.com

 

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 5792 61 full 60 - Avalanche Awareness Special - Julian Griffiths, European Snowsports 60 - Avalanche Awareness Special - Julian Griffiths, European Snowsports https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/60-avalanche-awareness-special-julian-griffiths-european-snowsports/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/60-avalanche-awareness-special-julian-griffiths-european-snowsports/#comments Sat, 30 Dec 2023 10:31:39 +0100 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/f4bc78ac-4cec-3cb4-b669-b2788a58188f Welcome to episode 60 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring an avalanche awareness special with Julian Griffiths of European Snowsports. Julian's ski school has lost two instructors free skiing in the last three years to avalanches and this episode is a summary of the police investigation report in to the most recent one, in which Joel and his friend Joel, were taken. Julian is going around giving this talk to any organisation that would like to hear it and you can contact me to be connected to Julian dave@snow-pros.ski

This episode covers the the report and also we talk about how modern media glamourises avalanche risk, as well as how social media encourages risk for attention.

I hope you you get some useful knowledge from this episode.

Dave

www.snow-pros.ski

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> Welcome to episode 60 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring an avalanche awareness special with Julian Griffiths of European Snowsports.

Julian's ski school has lost two instructors free skiing in the last three years to avalanches and this episode is a summary of the police investigation report in to the most recent one, in which Joel and his friend Joel, were taken.

Julian is going around giving this talk to any organisation that would like to hear it and you can contact me to be connected to Julian dave@snow-pros.ski

This episode covers the the report and also we talk about how modern media glamourises avalanche risk, as well as how social media encourages risk for attention.


I hope you you get some useful knowledge from this episode.

Dave

www.snow-pros.ski

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 5811 60 full 59 - John Eames - Former BASI telemark director and The Off Piste and Telemark Ski Company 59 - John Eames - Former BASI telemark director and The Off Piste and Telemark Ski Company https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/59-john-eames-former-basi-telemark-director-and-the-off-piste-and-telemark-ski-company/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/59-john-eames-former-basi-telemark-director-and-the-off-piste-and-telemark-ski-company/#comments Thu, 23 Nov 2023 10:51:00 +0100 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/237f18cd-1a90-337b-b951-251a3e103dac Hey everyone, welcome to episode 59 of The Ski Instructor Podcast. For this episode, I had long and interesting conversation with John Eames, Director of The Off Piste and Telemark Ski Company and former telemark director for BASI. This conversation is quite telemark centric and covers John's skiing background, the rise and fall of telemark skiing, evolution of equipment and technique versus alpine. You can find more info about John's company here: https://www.facebook.com/TheTelemarkSkiCompany Happy listening Dave dave@snow-pros.ski/lessons music by www.bensound.com

]]> Hey everyone, welcome to episode 59 of The Ski Instructor Podcast.

For this episode, I had long and interesting conversation with John Eames, Director of The Off Piste and Telemark Ski Company and former telemark director for BASI.

This conversation is quite telemark centric and covers John's skiing background, the rise and fall of telemark skiing, evolution of equipment and technique versus alpine.

You can find more info about John's company here:
https://www.facebook.com/TheTelemarkSkiCompany

Happy listening
Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski/lessons

music by www.bensound.com

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 6298 59 full 58 - PSIC, Professional Ski Instructors of Canada - Perry Schmunk and Jeff Marks 58 - PSIC, Professional Ski Instructors of Canada - Perry Schmunk and Jeff Marks https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/58-psic-professional-ski-instructors-of-canada-perry-schmunk-and-jeff-marks/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/58-psic-professional-ski-instructors-of-canada-perry-schmunk-and-jeff-marks/#comments Mon, 23 Oct 2023 17:03:49 +0200 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/2bf7692b-515d-3faa-902d-d413a28bc571 Welcome to episode 58 of the podcast and an interview I did with Perry and Jeff from the new Canadian ski instructor association, The Professional Ski Instructors of Canada, PSIC. We had a great wide ranging chat, talking mostly about the new organisation and their objectives but also chatting other things like Interski, attracting new people into snowsports and Perry and Jeff themselves. You can find out more about PSIC here:  www.psic.pro

Happy listening Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski www.snow-pros.ski/lessons

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> Welcome to episode 58 of the podcast and an interview I did with Perry and Jeff from the new Canadian ski instructor association, The Professional Ski Instructors of Canada, PSIC.

We had a great wide ranging chat, talking mostly about the new organisation and their objectives but also chatting other things like Interski, attracting new people into snowsports and Perry and Jeff themselves.

You can find out more about PSIC here:  www.psic.pro

Happy listening
Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski
www.snow-pros.ski/lessons

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 6128 58 full 57 - Jon Ahlsén and Tom Waddington - Level Up Ski Coaching 57 - Jon Ahlsén and Tom Waddington - Level Up Ski Coaching https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/57-jon-ahlsen-and-tom-waddington-level-up-ski-coaching/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/57-jon-ahlsen-and-tom-waddington-level-up-ski-coaching/#comments Fri, 15 Sep 2023 14:00:25 +0200 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/c4a517a2-e210-3bad-a83f-b924545c600a Welcome to episode 57 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring a return to the pod for Jon and Tom. Jon and Tom have gone in a new direction with their own ski instructor training company, Level Up Ski Coaching.  You can find them here: www.levelupskicoaching.com Insta and FB @levelupskicoaching

In this episode we chat all things to do with their new venture, ski instructor cars and accommodation, off season training and skiing robots. On the day that we recorded this it was about 33 degrees in Le Châble and we had a fan on in the background so that is what the background white noise is. I hope that you enjoy the episode as much as I did making it. Dave dave@snow-pros.ski www.snow-pros.ski music by www.bensound.com

]]> Welcome to episode 57 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring a return to the pod for Jon and Tom.

Jon and Tom have gone in a new direction with their own ski instructor training company, Level Up Ski Coaching.  You can find them here:

www.levelupskicoaching.com
Insta and FB @levelupskicoaching

In this episode we chat all things to do with their new venture, ski instructor cars and accommodation, off season training and skiing robots.

On the day that we recorded this it was about 33 degrees in Le Châble and we had a fan on in the background so that is what the background white noise is.

I hope that you enjoy the episode as much as I did making it.
Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski
www.snow-pros.ski

music by www.bensound.com

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 5495 57 full 56 - Q+A Special featuring Phil Brown from Impulse Racing and the NSSA 56 - Q+A Special featuring Phil Brown from Impulse Racing and the NSSA https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/56-qa-special-featuring-phil-brown-from-impulse-racing-and-the-nssa/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/56-qa-special-featuring-phil-brown-from-impulse-racing-and-the-nssa/#comments Mon, 14 Aug 2023 15:37:11 +0200 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/06c6ea56-41f2-3e68-bee1-d8f4eb78337e Welcome to episode 56 of The Ski Instructor Podcast and finally, I get round to doing the Q+A episode that I promised you all so long ago. I was on a week long motorbike tour with Phil Brown of Impulse Racing and we had a chance to sit down one evening overlooking Lake Como and go through the questions that you all sent in. I want to thank you for taking the time to send them in. Happy listening

Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski

https://www.snow-pros.ski/snowboarding

 

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> Welcome to episode 56 of The Ski Instructor Podcast and finally, I get round to doing the Q+A episode that I promised you all so long ago.

I was on a week long motorbike tour with Phil Brown of Impulse Racing and we had a chance to sit down one evening overlooking Lake Como and go through the questions that you all sent in.

I want to thank you for taking the time to send them in.

Happy listening

Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski

https://www.snow-pros.ski/snowboarding

 

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 3293 56 full 55 - Darren Turner, Insight Ski Coaching, Ski School App - Part 2 55 - Darren Turner, Insight Ski Coaching, Ski School App - Part 2 https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/55-darren-turner-insight-ski-coaching-ski-school-app-part-2/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/55-darren-turner-insight-ski-coaching-ski-school-app-part-2/#comments Fri, 30 Jun 2023 15:08:20 +0200 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/ff65afa6-fe07-394e-b842-67d25aab050f Welcome to episode 55 of The Ski Instructor Podcast and part 2 of my chat with Darren Turner.  

I travelled to Aosta in the autumn to chat with Darren about his life in skiing, his career as an instructor and his subsequent changes of direction after skiing. Darren grew up skiing in the UK and Europe, eventually becoming an independent instructor in Serre Chevalier in France.

In this episode we chat about his transition to making film, the development of the app and his philosophy for technical skiing and teaching. You can get in touch with Darren through his website http://insightski.com/

or find him on facebook @darrenturnerskiing

Dave Burrows

dave@snow-pros.ski

https://www.snow-pros.ski/english-ski-school-aosta-valley-italy

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> Welcome to episode 55 of The Ski Instructor Podcast and part 2 of my chat with Darren Turner.  

I travelled to Aosta in the autumn to chat with Darren about his life in skiing, his career as an instructor and his subsequent changes of direction after skiing.

Darren grew up skiing in the UK and Europe, eventually becoming an independent instructor in Serre Chevalier in France.


In this episode we chat about his transition to making film, the development of the app and his philosophy for technical skiing and teaching.

You can get in touch with Darren through his website http://insightski.com/

or find him on facebook @darrenturnerskiing

Dave Burrows

dave@snow-pros.ski

https://www.snow-pros.ski/english-ski-school-aosta-valley-italy

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 6269 55 full 54 - Darren Turner, Insight Ski Coaching, Ski School App - Part 1 54 - Darren Turner, Insight Ski Coaching, Ski School App - Part 1 https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/54-darren-turner-insight-ski-coaching-ski-school-app-part-1/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/54-darren-turner-insight-ski-coaching-ski-school-app-part-1/#comments Thu, 25 May 2023 15:00:50 +0200 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/c81fbce6-62a7-3a71-bffc-ea2053790879 Welcome to episode 54 of The Ski Instructor Podcast.    

I travelled to Aosta in the autumn to chat with Darren Turner about his life in skiing, his career as an instructor and his subsequent changes of direction after skiing. Darren grew up skiing in the UK and Europe, eventually becoming an independent instructor in Serre Chevalier in France. As well as this, he created the wildly successful Ski School app and now splits his time between video production and ski teaching.  We talk more about that in part 2.

You can get in touch with Darren through his website http://insightski.com/ or find him on facebook @darrenturnerskiing

I really enjoyed the conversation that I had making this podcast and I hope you enjoy listening to it.

Dave Burrows

dave@snow-pros.ski https://www.snow-pros.ski/english-ski-school-courmayeur

 

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> Welcome to episode 54 of The Ski Instructor Podcast.    

I travelled to Aosta in the autumn to chat with Darren Turner about his life in skiing, his career as an instructor and his subsequent changes of direction after skiing.

Darren grew up skiing in the UK and Europe, eventually becoming an independent instructor in Serre Chevalier in France.

As well as this, he created the wildly successful Ski School app and now splits his time between video production and ski teaching.  We talk more about that in part 2.

You can get in touch with Darren through his website http://insightski.com/
or find him on facebook @darrenturnerskiing

I really enjoyed the conversation that I had making this podcast and I hope you enjoy listening to it.

Dave Burrows

dave@snow-pros.ski

https://www.snow-pros.ski/english-ski-school-courmayeur

 

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 4291 54 full 53 - Derek Tate, Interski 2023 Review 53 - Derek Tate, Interski 2023 Review https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/53-derek-tate-interski-2023-review/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/53-derek-tate-interski-2023-review/#comments Thu, 20 Apr 2023 12:54:42 +0200 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/7e868ff9-dc17-35a2-9ec9-f9ddd249ab67 Welcome to episode 53 of The Ski Instructor Podcast. This week I have an Interski Review Podcast for you with Derek Tate.  Derek went to Interski 2023 in Levi in Finalnd and reports back on some of the seminars and on snow practical sessions that he attended.  

The theme at this years' Interski was the 'Guest Experience' which as many of you know by now, is a topic close to my heart.

In the episode we talked about Derek's Interski report, which you can read here: https://books2read.com/Interski2023CongressReport

You can find Derek's other books, including the one he gave me a copy of here: https://www.paralleldreams.co.uk/derekntateauthor

Lastly, you can find and book Derek for skiing here: www.basschamonix.com

Happy listening

Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski

https://www.snow-pros.ski/english-ski-school-aosta-valley-italy

music by www.bensound.com

 

 

]]> Welcome to episode 53 of The Ski Instructor Podcast.

This week I have an Interski Review Podcast for you with Derek Tate.  Derek went to Interski 2023 in Levi in Finalnd and reports back on some of the seminars and on snow practical sessions that he attended.  

The theme at this years' Interski was the 'Guest Experience' which as many of you know by now, is a topic close to my heart.

In the episode we talked about Derek's Interski report, which you can read here:
https://books2read.com/Interski2023CongressReport

You can find Derek's other books, including the one he gave me a copy of here:
https://www.paralleldreams.co.uk/derekntateauthor

Lastly, you can find and book Derek for skiing here:
www.basschamonix.com

Happy listening

Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski

https://www.snow-pros.ski/english-ski-school-aosta-valley-italy

music by www.bensound.com

 

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 5880 53 full 52 - Stuart Bernard, Ski Focus - Part 2 52 - Stuart Bernard, Ski Focus - Part 2 https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/52-stuart-bernard-ski-focus-part-2/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/52-stuart-bernard-ski-focus-part-2/#comments Thu, 23 Feb 2023 11:25:14 +0100 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/aa264d37-22ee-3887-b246-2cd7c6d7ebda Welcome to episode 52 of the podcast.   This week I have the second part of a 2 part interview I did in the autumn with Stuart Bernard of Ski Focus. Stuart splits his time between working in the snow domes in the UK and skiing with clients in Tignes. We chatted about the value of indoor practice, bumps, marketing and more on bad backs and mental approaches to skiing.

You can find Stuart at www.skifocus.co.uk

Also on Instagram @skifocus @stuartjbernard

Happy listening

Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski

www.snowpros-snowboarding.com

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> Welcome to episode 52 of the podcast.  

This week I have the second part of a 2 part interview I did in the autumn with Stuart Bernard of Ski Focus.

Stuart splits his time between working in the snow domes in the UK and skiing with clients in Tignes.

We chatted about the value of indoor practice, bumps, marketing and more on bad backs and mental approaches to skiing.


You can find Stuart at www.skifocus.co.uk

Also on Instagram @skifocus @stuartjbernard

Happy listening

Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski

www.snowpros-snowboarding.com

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 5217 52 full 51- Stuart Bernard, Ski Focus - Part 1 51- Stuart Bernard, Ski Focus - Part 1 https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/51-stuart-bernard-ski-focus/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/51-stuart-bernard-ski-focus/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2023 16:37:40 +0100 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/4407de81-093f-39f6-ab5d-08f1ed741336 Welcome to episode 51 of the podcast.   This episode I have the first part of a 2 part interview I did in the autumn with Stuart Bernard of Ski Focus. Stuart splits his time between working in the snow domes in the UK and skiing with clients in Tignes. We had a wide reaching chat talking about Stuart's journey to becoming an instructor, ski philosophy, mindset and technique.  I found Stuart to be an excellent guest, thoughtful, thorough and interesting.  You can find Stuart at www.skifocus.co.uk

Also on Instagram @skifocus @stuartjbernard

Happy listening

Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski

www.snowpros-snowboarding.com

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> Welcome to episode 51 of the podcast.  

This episode I have the first part of a 2 part interview I did in the autumn with Stuart Bernard of Ski Focus.

Stuart splits his time between working in the snow domes in the UK and skiing with clients in Tignes.

We had a wide reaching chat talking about Stuart's journey to becoming an instructor, ski philosophy, mindset and technique.  I found Stuart to be an excellent guest, thoughtful, thorough and interesting. 

You can find Stuart at www.skifocus.co.uk

Also on Instagram @skifocus @stuartjbernard

Happy listening

Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski

www.snowpros-snowboarding.com

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 6327 51 full 50 - Katie Dobson, Independent Instructor, Chatel, France - www.skigoddess.co.uk 50 - Katie Dobson, Independent Instructor, Chatel, France - www.skigoddess.co.uk https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/50-katie-dobson-independent-instructor-chatel-france-wwwskigoddesscouk/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/50-katie-dobson-independent-instructor-chatel-france-wwwskigoddesscouk/#comments Sun, 08 Jan 2023 12:05:21 +0100 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/7de509e4-cdfc-3e7f-889c-91a08bfe803b Hello and happy new year to you all.  I hope that Santa brought you all new skis and lots of snow. So here we are at episode 50 of The Ski Instructor Podcast.  I'm personally amazed that I have managed to find enough content to keep this interesting for 50 episodes and 80,000 downloads.

For the 50th episode, which also doubles as the late Christmas special, I bring you a great interview with Katie Dobson who is an independent ski instructor based in Chatel in France.  She runs a company called Ski Goddess which runs ski camps/holidays specifically for women.  You can find Katie at www.skigoddess.co.uk We chat about stray dogs, her journey to full cert, why she started Ski Goddess, female specific teaching and working and living in France.

This time of the year is always difficult to keep to a regular posting schedule, the ski school is busier than ever but I will do my best. Enjoy the snow

Dave

www.snow-pros.ski

music by www.bensound.com

 

 

]]> Hello and happy new year to you all.  I hope that Santa brought you all new skis and lots of snow.

So here we are at episode 50 of The Ski Instructor Podcast.  I'm personally amazed that I have managed to find enough content to keep this interesting for 50 episodes and 80,000 downloads.

For the 50th episode, which also doubles as the late Christmas special, I bring you a great interview with Katie Dobson who is an independent ski instructor based in Chatel in France.  She runs a company called Ski Goddess which runs ski camps/holidays specifically for women.  You can find Katie at www.skigoddess.co.uk

We chat about stray dogs, her journey to full cert, why she started Ski Goddess, female specific teaching and working and living in France.

This time of the year is always difficult to keep to a regular posting schedule, the ski school is busier than ever but I will do my best.

Enjoy the snow

Dave

www.snow-pros.ski

music by www.bensound.com

 

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 6925 50 full 49 - Simon Jones part 2 - Head freestyle coach - Kimberley, Canada 49 - Simon Jones part 2 - Head freestyle coach - Kimberley, Canada https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/49-simon-jones-part-2-head-freestyle-coach-kimberley-canada/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/49-simon-jones-part-2-head-freestyle-coach-kimberley-canada/#comments Tue, 22 Nov 2022 11:58:14 +0100 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/52669abd-e62a-39c9-b816-0de8743577cd Welcome to episode 49 of The Ski Instructor Podcast and part 2 of my interview with Simon Jones, who is the head freestyle coach at Kimberley in Canada.  Simon is originally British but now lives full time in Canada, coaching skiing in the winter and golf in the summer.

In this episode we discuss the CSIA structure, client service, teaching of both skiing and golf.

You can find Simon on instagram @greenorwhite or ask for him at Kimberley or Fernie Ski Schools.

Happy listening

Dave

www.snow-pros.ski

www.snowpros-snowboarding.com

music by www.bensound.com

]]> Welcome to episode 49 of The Ski Instructor Podcast and part 2 of my interview with Simon Jones, who is the head freestyle coach at Kimberley in Canada.  Simon is originally British but now lives full time in Canada, coaching skiing in the winter and golf in the summer.

In this episode we discuss the CSIA structure, client service, teaching of both skiing and golf.

You can find Simon on instagram @greenorwhite or ask for him at Kimberley or Fernie Ski Schools.

Happy listening

Dave

www.snow-pros.ski

www.snowpros-snowboarding.com

music by www.bensound.com

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 3532 49 full 48 - Simon Jones part 1 - Head freestyle coach - Kimberley, Canada 48 - Simon Jones part 1 - Head freestyle coach - Kimberley, Canada https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/48-simon-jones-part-1-head-freestyle-coach-kimberley-canada/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/48-simon-jones-part-1-head-freestyle-coach-kimberley-canada/#comments Mon, 24 Oct 2022 15:10:45 +0200 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/a4e4d37f-6b56-3ebc-9caa-7e79887a5ad2 Welcome to episode 48 of The Ski Instructor Podcast.  It's been a while since the last podcast, the autumn is a super busy time for me given my role at www.snow-pros.ski

This week, I present to you part 1 of a great interview with Simon Jones, who is the head freestyle coach at Kimberley in Canada.  Simon is originally British but now lives full time in Canada, coaching skiing in the winter and golf in the summer.

In part 1 we start off with me ranting about the complexity of modern life and we move on to discuss Simon's journey to Canada and his life on snow.  We also chat moguls, Canadian snow and a bunch of other things. You can find Simon on instagram @greenorwhite or ask for him at Kimberley or Fernie Ski Schools.

Happy listening

Dave

music by www.bensound.com

 

 

]]> Welcome to episode 48 of The Ski Instructor Podcast.  It's been a while since the last podcast, the autumn is a super busy time for me given my role at www.snow-pros.ski

This week, I present to you part 1 of a great interview with Simon Jones, who is the head freestyle coach at Kimberley in Canada.  Simon is originally British but now lives full time in Canada, coaching skiing in the winter and golf in the summer.

In part 1 we start off with me ranting about the complexity of modern life and we move on to discuss Simon's journey to Canada and his life on snow.  We also chat moguls, Canadian snow and a bunch of other things.

You can find Simon on instagram @greenorwhite or ask for him at Kimberley or Fernie Ski Schools.

Happy listening

Dave

music by www.bensound.com

 

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 3466 48 full 47 - Federico Wenzel - Argentine Ski Instructor, www.fedewenzelski.com 47 - Federico Wenzel - Argentine Ski Instructor, www.fedewenzelski.com https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/47-federico-wenzel-argentine-ski-instructor-wwwfedewenzelskicom/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/47-federico-wenzel-argentine-ski-instructor-wwwfedewenzelskicom/#comments Fri, 26 Aug 2022 13:21:07 +0200 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/6aa3dd6a-10cb-34b4-b6c2-096d6b59da51 Welcome to episode 47 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Federico Wenzel from Argentina.  

The summer heat here is finally fading and there is an autumnal feeling in the air at higher altitudes.

I had a great chat with Federico who is working his way through the Argentine ski instructor qualifications.  We touched on many topics, including the Argentine system itself, early experiences of skiing and how he balances his time between doctoring and skiing.

You can find him at www.fedewenzelski.com

We are busy preparing for the forthcoming ski season here at SnowPros www.snow-pros.ski and SnowPros Snowboarding www.snowpros-snowboarding.com after this lack of rain all summer, I have a feeling it will dump down with snow this winter.

Happy listening

Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski

 

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> Welcome to episode 47 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Federico Wenzel from Argentina.  

The summer heat here is finally fading and there is an autumnal feeling in the air at higher altitudes.

I had a great chat with Federico who is working his way through the Argentine ski instructor qualifications.  We touched on many topics, including the Argentine system itself, early experiences of skiing and how he balances his time between doctoring and skiing.

You can find him at www.fedewenzelski.com

We are busy preparing for the forthcoming ski season here at SnowPros www.snow-pros.ski and SnowPros Snowboarding www.snowpros-snowboarding.com after this lack of rain all summer, I have a feeling it will dump down with snow this winter.

Happy listening

Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski

 

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 5692 47 full 46 - Harry McFadden Part 2 - Rookie Academy, The Ski Co, NZSIA trainer 46 - Harry McFadden Part 2 - Rookie Academy, The Ski Co, NZSIA trainer https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/46-harry-mcfadden-part-2-rookie-academy-the-ski-co-nzsia-trainer/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/46-harry-mcfadden-part-2-rookie-academy-the-ski-co-nzsia-trainer/#comments Tue, 26 Jul 2022 17:35:33 +0200 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/86255ea0-647c-39de-b9c0-232891224489 Welcome to episode 46 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Harry McFadden part 2.

Our conversation carries on and in part 2 I finally put to bed my questions about the Japanese technical champs.  We also talk about China, Italy and this summer's NZ season. Finally we talk tech on where the turn comes from.

I hope you are all well and enjoying this hot summer or southern hemisphere winter.

You can ski with Harry at harry@rookieacademy.com or find him on insta @harrymcfadden

Happy listening

Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski

www.snow-pros.ski/lessons

Music by www.bensound.com

]]> Welcome to episode 46 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Harry McFadden part 2.

Our conversation carries on and in part 2 I finally put to bed my questions about the Japanese technical champs.  We also talk about China, Italy and this summer's NZ season. Finally we talk tech on where the turn comes from.

I hope you are all well and enjoying this hot summer or southern hemisphere winter.

You can ski with Harry at harry@rookieacademy.com or find him on insta @harrymcfadden

Happy listening

Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski

www.snow-pros.ski/lessons

Music by www.bensound.com

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 4257 46 full 45 - Harry McFadden Part 1 - Rookie Academy, The Ski Co, NZSIA trainer 45 - Harry McFadden Part 1 - Rookie Academy, The Ski Co, NZSIA trainer https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/45-harry-mcfadden-part-1-rookie-academy-the-ski-co-nzsia-trainer/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/45-harry-mcfadden-part-1-rookie-academy-the-ski-co-nzsia-trainer/#comments Thu, 09 Jun 2022 14:55:43 +0200 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/5746cdaf-e635-3885-b768-4247a63a31ae Welcome to episode 45 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Harry McFadden part 1.

Hopefully this episode will be just in time for the start of the New Zealand winter and will provide some inspiration for all those heading to NZ to ski.

We chat on a wide range of topics including getting your new season going, fatigue between seasons, his journey to full cert and differences in systems.

Part 2 will follow in a few weeks with another hour or so of this interview.

I hope you are all well and enjoying the summer or southern hemisphere winter.

SnowPros are recruiting.  If you think you have what it takes to join our team, message me and tell me why on www.snow-pros.ski/contact

You can ski with Harry at harry@rookieacademy.com or find him on insta @harrymcfadden

Happy listening

Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski

 

p.s.  sorry for the strimming noise in the background

p.p.s music by www.bensound.com

]]> Welcome to episode 45 of The Ski Instructor Podcast, this week featuring Harry McFadden part 1.

Hopefully this episode will be just in time for the start of the New Zealand winter and will provide some inspiration for all those heading to NZ to ski.

We chat on a wide range of topics including getting your new season going, fatigue between seasons, his journey to full cert and differences in systems.

Part 2 will follow in a few weeks with another hour or so of this interview.

I hope you are all well and enjoying the summer or southern hemisphere winter.

SnowPros are recruiting.  If you think you have what it takes to join our team, message me and tell me why on www.snow-pros.ski/contact

You can ski with Harry at harry@rookieacademy.com or find him on insta @harrymcfadden

Happy listening

Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski

 

p.s.  sorry for the strimming noise in the background

p.p.s music by www.bensound.com

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 3338 45 full 44 - Helen Trayfoot part 2, Independent Instructor - Chatel, France and BASI Trainer 44 - Helen Trayfoot part 2, Independent Instructor - Chatel, France and BASI Trainer https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/44-helen-trayfoot-independent-instructor-chatel-france-and-basi-trainer-part-2/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/44-helen-trayfoot-independent-instructor-chatel-france-and-basi-trainer-part-2/#comments Mon, 02 May 2022 19:13:34 +0200 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/488658e9-7a22-362c-8d3c-d8bf5c687920 Welcome to part 2 of The Ski Instructor Podcast's episode with Helen Trayfoot who is an independent instructor based in Chatel, France.

This week we chat more about teaching children to ski, female representation in snowsports, teaching in a french ski school and some general technique chat, including pole swing weight.  I really enjoyed chatting with Helen and I think that comes across in this pod.

Link to the best ski video on you tube.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9agAh1Nmu4E

You can find Helen at https://www.facebook.com/helen.trayfootwaugh

For the upcoming QandA episode where I attempt to answer your questions along with a special guest, please write to me at dave@snow-pros.ski

happy listening Dave www.snow-pros.ski/lessons

music by www.bensound.com

]]> Welcome to part 2 of The Ski Instructor Podcast's episode with Helen Trayfoot who is an independent instructor based in Chatel, France.

This week we chat more about teaching children to ski, female representation in snowsports, teaching in a french ski school and some general technique chat, including pole swing weight.  I really enjoyed chatting with Helen and I think that comes across in this pod.

Link to the best ski video on you tube.  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9agAh1Nmu4E

You can find Helen at https://www.facebook.com/helen.trayfootwaugh

For the upcoming QandA episode where I attempt to answer your questions along with a special guest, please write to me at dave@snow-pros.ski

happy listening
Dave
www.snow-pros.ski/lessons

music by www.bensound.com

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 3941 44 full 43 - Helen Trayfoot, Independent Instructor - Chatel, France and BASI Trainer - Part 1 43 - Helen Trayfoot, Independent Instructor - Chatel, France and BASI Trainer - Part 1 https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/43-helen-trayfoot-independent-instructor-chatel-france-and-basi-trainer-part-1/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/43-helen-trayfoot-independent-instructor-chatel-france-and-basi-trainer-part-1/#comments Thu, 31 Mar 2022 10:49:08 +0200 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/69b57c52-1ee7-3669-9af1-a5133c0371c9 Welcome to part 1 of episode 43 of The Ski Instructor Podcast.  This episode is with Helen Trayfoot who is an independent instructor based in Chatel, France.

We chat about her twin journeys towards French nationality and full certification.  We then go on to discussing teaching children to ski, which is the main focus of these episodes.

New York City cabbie does French numbers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp2J09orYWY

 

For the upcoming QandA episode where I attempt to answer your questions along with a special guest, please write to me at dave@snow-pros.ski

You won't find me on facebook because I have quit that.

happy listening Dave www.snow-pros.ski

music by www.bensound.com

 

 

]]> Welcome to part 1 of episode 43 of The Ski Instructor Podcast.  This episode is with Helen Trayfoot who is an independent instructor based in Chatel, France.

We chat about her twin journeys towards French nationality and full certification.  We then go on to discussing teaching children to ski, which is the main focus of these episodes.

New York City cabbie does French numbers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp2J09orYWY

 

For the upcoming QandA episode where I attempt to answer your questions along with a special guest, please write to me at dave@snow-pros.ski

You won't find me on facebook because I have quit that.

happy listening
Dave
www.snow-pros.ski

music by www.bensound.com

 

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 4092 43 full 42 - Colin Martin, Solutions4Feet 42 - Colin Martin, Solutions4Feet https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/42-colin-martin-solutions4feet/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/42-colin-martin-solutions4feet/#comments Tue, 18 Jan 2022 15:59:20 +0100 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/b14bad54-444d-394f-8e56-8f4e51105e68 Welcome to episode 42 of the podcast and to one that I have been a long time getting round to recording.  

Colin Martin is a boot fitting specialist who looks after my own boots.  He is based in Bicester in the UK and is always on my list of places to visit when I go back to Blighty.  

In this episode we chat all things feet and boots, as well as some random chat about boats.

You can find Colin at www.solutions4feet.com on social media or email on fitting@solutions4feet.com

Happy listening and I'll be back next month with the next episode.

Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski

www.snow-pros.ski/instructors

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> Welcome to episode 42 of the podcast and to one that I have been a long time getting round to recording.  

Colin Martin is a boot fitting specialist who looks after my own boots.  He is based in Bicester in the UK and is always on my list of places to visit when I go back to Blighty.  

In this episode we chat all things feet and boots, as well as some random chat about boats.

You can find Colin at www.solutions4feet.com on social media or email on fitting@solutions4feet.com

Happy listening and I'll be back next month with the next episode.

Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski

www.snow-pros.ski/instructors

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 6513 42 full 41 - Christmas Special with Phil Brown, Julian Griffiths and Steve Hindman 41 - Christmas Special with Phil Brown, Julian Griffiths and Steve Hindman https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/41-christmas-special-with-phil-brown-julian-griffiths-and-steve-hindman/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/41-christmas-special-with-phil-brown-julian-griffiths-and-steve-hindman/#comments Thu, 23 Dec 2021 09:00:00 +0100 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/a6a8b751-0a93-332b-87f9-d23a92b035aa Welcome to episode 41 and this year's Christmas special roundtable chat. Joining me were Phil Brown of Impulse Racing, Julian Griffiths of European Snowsports and Steve Hindman from the US Nordic Demo Team.  

We chatted on a wide range of topics from topics as diverse as mince pies to the last two years running a ski business during covid.  We talk also about digital tech and it's place in skiing as well as the lack of meaningful teaching and client care training in instructor systems.

We had great fun making this, I hope that you enjoy listing to this over the holidays.

Merry Christmas and a happy new year!

Dave

www.snow-pros.ski/lessons

dave@snow-pros.ski

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> Welcome to episode 41 and this year's Christmas special roundtable chat.

Joining me were Phil Brown of Impulse Racing, Julian Griffiths of European Snowsports and Steve Hindman from the US Nordic Demo Team.  

We chatted on a wide range of topics from topics as diverse as mince pies to the last two years running a ski business during covid.  We talk also about digital tech and it's place in skiing as well as the lack of meaningful teaching and client care training in instructor systems.

We had great fun making this, I hope that you enjoy listing to this over the holidays.

Merry Christmas and a happy new year!

Dave

www.snow-pros.ski/lessons

dave@snow-pros.ski

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 7915 41 full 40 - Jon Ahlsen Part 2 - BASI trainer, New Generation Ski School, Projected Productions 40 - Jon Ahlsen Part 2 - BASI trainer, New Generation Ski School, Projected Productions https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/40-jon-ahlsen-part-2-basi-trainer-new-generation-ski-school-projected-productions/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/40-jon-ahlsen-part-2-basi-trainer-new-generation-ski-school-projected-productions/#comments Sun, 05 Dec 2021 10:29:00 +0100 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/48c8244b-d9d5-372a-9554-17e88b036a54 Welcome to episode 40, the second part of my interview with Jon Ahlsen. In this one, we go a lot more in depth about skiing and we get into detail about different national ski systems, lots (more)chat about the Japanese technical champs, an insight into the mind of a national team race coach, in depth technical discussion and a review of last winter.

You can find out more about Jon and his work here:

https://www.instructorcourses.skinewgen.com/ski-instructor-courses/verbier-prof-dev/#trainers

https://www.projectedproductions.com/jon-ahlsen

happy listening

Dave

www.snow-pros.ski

dave@snow-pros.ski

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> Welcome to episode 40, the second part of my interview with Jon Ahlsen.

In this one, we go a lot more in depth about skiing and we get into detail about different national ski systems, lots (more)chat about the Japanese technical champs, an insight into the mind of a national team race coach, in depth technical discussion and a review of last winter.

You can find out more about Jon and his work here:

https://www.instructorcourses.skinewgen.com/ski-instructor-courses/verbier-prof-dev/#trainers

https://www.projectedproductions.com/jon-ahlsen

happy listening

Dave

www.snow-pros.ski

dave@snow-pros.ski

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 5044 40 full 39 - Jon Ahlsen Part 1 - New Generation Ski School, BASI Trainer 39 - Jon Ahlsen Part 1 - New Generation Ski School, BASI Trainer https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/39-jon-ahlsen-new-generation-ski-school-basi-trainer/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/39-jon-ahlsen-new-generation-ski-school-basi-trainer/#comments Tue, 09 Nov 2021 10:11:43 +0100 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/d77e0b70-a816-3e94-953e-182e2aae667d In episode 39 and 40 of the podcast, I chat to Jon Ahlsen.  I went to his place in Verbier and spent a wonderful 2.5 hours chatting all things skiing and life in general.  Jon is a deep thinker on most subjects and I very much enjoyed getting to know him more that I already did.

We chat in part 1 about summer skiing on the glacier, corparate life vs skiing life, fashion, his journey in skiing and much more.

You can find out more about the higher certification level training program that Jon and Tom run in Verbier here: https://www.instructorcourses.skinewgen.com/ski-instructor-courses/verbier-prof-dev/#trainers

and you can find Jon on instagram @jon_ahlsen

Happy listening

Dave www.snow-pros.ski/expatskiguide

dave@snow-pros.ski

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> In episode 39 and 40 of the podcast, I chat to Jon Ahlsen.  I went to his place in Verbier and spent a wonderful 2.5 hours chatting all things skiing and life in general.  Jon is a deep thinker on most subjects and I very much enjoyed getting to know him more that I already did.

We chat in part 1 about summer skiing on the glacier, corparate life vs skiing life, fashion, his journey in skiing and much more.

You can find out more about the higher certification level training program that Jon and Tom run in Verbier here:
https://www.instructorcourses.skinewgen.com/ski-instructor-courses/verbier-prof-dev/#trainers

and you can find Jon on instagram @jon_ahlsen

Happy listening

Dave
www.snow-pros.ski/expatskiguide

dave@snow-pros.ski

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 4704 39 full 38 - Dan Egan - US Skiing Hall of Famer, 30 Years in a White Haze 38 - Dan Egan - US Skiing Hall of Famer, 30 Years in a White Haze https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/38-dan-egan-us-skiing-hall-of-famer-30-years-in-a-white-haze/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/38-dan-egan-us-skiing-hall-of-famer-30-years-in-a-white-haze/#comments Wed, 06 Oct 2021 10:53:35 +0200 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/30d5eddb-39ce-35ed-9fd1-9308615b7d61 This week I have a great interview that I did with Dan Egan, US ski hall of famer and author of a new skiing book '30 years in a white haze' which you can find here https://www.white-haze.com

Dan has featured in numerous Warren Miller ski movies and runs his own ski camps in the US and Europe www.skiclinics.com

We chat about all things skiing, growing up in Boston, skiing as a kid and then growing up and coaching them, polar exploration, Mount Elbrus and much more.

This was a great interview and I hope you enjoy listening to it.

Dave Burrows

dave@snow-pros.ski

https://www.snow-pros.ski/ski-school-portes-du-soleil

music by www.bensound.com

                                                                                                                         

]]> This week I have a great interview that I did with Dan Egan, US ski hall of famer and author of a new skiing book '30 years in a white haze' which you can find here https://www.white-haze.com

Dan has featured in numerous Warren Miller ski movies and runs his own ski camps in the US and Europe www.skiclinics.com

We chat about all things skiing, growing up in Boston, skiing as a kid and then growing up and coaching them, polar exploration, Mount Elbrus and much more.

This was a great interview and I hope you enjoy listening to it.

Dave Burrows

dave@snow-pros.ski

https://www.snow-pros.ski/ski-school-portes-du-soleil

music by www.bensound.com

                                                                                                                         

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 7118 38 full 37 - Peter Kuwall Part 2, British Alpine Ski School Chatel, BASI Trainer 37 - Peter Kuwall Part 2, British Alpine Ski School Chatel, BASI Trainer https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/37-peter-kuwall-part-2-british-alpine-ski-school-chatel-basi-trainer/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/37-peter-kuwall-part-2-british-alpine-ski-school-chatel-basi-trainer/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2021 14:56:38 +0200 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/5b33aacb-dffe-3b8d-b6ca-b3fad29b9457 Welcome to episode 37 of The Ski Instructor Podcast and part 2 of this interview with Peter Kuwall.  I had so much to talk to PK about that I had to extend this interview across two episodes.

We carry on our interview and talk about the effects of Brexit, transcendent performance, his time on the BASI board and the long awaited living in a barn story. 

If you want to get in touch with PK, you can contact him at www.britishskischool.com/chatel

chatel@britishskischool.com

 

Happy listening

Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski

https://www.snow-pros.ski/glacier-3000les-diablerets

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> Welcome to episode 37 of The Ski Instructor Podcast and part 2 of this interview with Peter Kuwall.  I had so much to talk to PK about that I had to extend this interview across two episodes.

We carry on our interview and talk about the effects of Brexit, transcendent performance, his time on the BASI board and the long awaited living in a barn story. 

If you want to get in touch with PK, you can contact him at www.britishskischool.com/chatel

chatel@britishskischool.com

 

Happy listening

Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski

https://www.snow-pros.ski/glacier-3000les-diablerets

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 4462 37 full 36 - Peter Kuwall - British Alpine Ski School, Châtel (part 1) 36 - Peter Kuwall - British Alpine Ski School, Châtel (part 1) https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/36-peter-kuwall-british-alpine-ski-school-chatel-part-1/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/36-peter-kuwall-british-alpine-ski-school-chatel-part-1/#comments Wed, 04 Aug 2021 13:20:38 +0200 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/7294eef2-1e82-3313-af2a-557b0ac8a07d Welcome to episode 36 of The Ski Instructor Podcast and one that I have been looking forward to since I first began drawing up my list of people I wanted to speak to. Peter Kuwall is my guru, a guy who has probably forgotten more about skiing than I will ever know.

We talk about how he came up in the industry, the boom years of Scottish skiing, how teaching and mechanical engineering relate and the old French technical test that was the forerunner to the Eurotest.

I always love chatting to PK and i think it really comes out in this interview.  If you want to find him you can catch him at www.britishskischool.com/chatel

Happy listening

Dave

Dave Burrows

SnowPros Ski School

dave@snow-pros.ski

https://www.snow-pros.ski/instructors

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> Welcome to episode 36 of The Ski Instructor Podcast and one that I have been looking forward to since I first began drawing up my list of people I wanted to speak to.

Peter Kuwall is my guru, a guy who has probably forgotten more about skiing than I will ever know.

We talk about how he came up in the industry, the boom years of Scottish skiing, how teaching and mechanical engineering relate and the old French technical test that was the forerunner to the Eurotest.

I always love chatting to PK and i think it really comes out in this interview.  If you want to find him you can catch him at www.britishskischool.com/chatel

Happy listening

Dave

Dave Burrows

SnowPros Ski School

dave@snow-pros.ski

https://www.snow-pros.ski/instructors

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 5564 36 full 35 - John Greenwood - Silksworth Dry Ski Centre 35 - John Greenwood - Silksworth Dry Ski Centre https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/35-john-greenwood-silksworth-dry-ski-slope/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/35-john-greenwood-silksworth-dry-ski-slope/#comments Wed, 16 Jun 2021 11:18:52 +0200 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/205d1904-7613-334b-93d1-997279581b38 Welcome to episode 35 of the ski instructor podcast which will be the episode that takes it past 50,000 downloads.  I'm a bit late publishing this one, I've been out recording podcasts and generally doing other stuff not related to skiing.

This week, I had the chance to record a lovely interview with John Greenwood, who runs the Silksworth Dry Ski Centre in the North East of England https://www.everyoneactive.com/centre/silksworth-sports-complex-and-ski-slope/

We had a great chat covering topics as diverse as school ski trips to Norway, quirks to teaching on a dry slope, ski prep for dry slope skiing and load of other stuff in-between.

You can reach John at https://www.facebook.com/john.greenwood.16

It's a good interview with good energy.  I hope you like it.

Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski

https://www.snow-pros.ski/summer-ski-camp

music by www.bensound.com

 

 

]]> Welcome to episode 35 of the ski instructor podcast which will be the episode that takes it past 50,000 downloads.  I'm a bit late publishing this one, I've been out recording podcasts and generally doing other stuff not related to skiing.

This week, I had the chance to record a lovely interview with John Greenwood, who runs the Silksworth Dry Ski Centre in the North East of England https://www.everyoneactive.com/centre/silksworth-sports-complex-and-ski-slope/

We had a great chat covering topics as diverse as school ski trips to Norway, quirks to teaching on a dry slope, ski prep for dry slope skiing and load of other stuff in-between.

You can reach John at https://www.facebook.com/john.greenwood.16

It's a good interview with good energy.  I hope you like it.

Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski

https://www.snow-pros.ski/summer-ski-camp

music by www.bensound.com

 

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 5561 35 full 34 - Alessandro Cambon - Beau Soleil International School, Alpine Italy 34 - Alessandro Cambon - Beau Soleil International School, Alpine Italy https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/34-alessandro-cambon-beau-soleil-international-school-alpine-italy/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/34-alessandro-cambon-beau-soleil-international-school-alpine-italy/#comments Thu, 15 Apr 2021 10:52:19 +0200 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/d62122db-8505-3e2f-b191-4f3edfc2cf9a Welcome to episode 34 of The Ski Instructor Podcast and this week's interview is with Alessandro Cambon of Beau Soleil International School and Alpine Italy.

Ale is a BASI level 4 and trainer but is originally from Italy.  We had a lovely chat in his home in Gryon and we covered lots of ground in this podcast including pole vaulting, life and work skiing at an international school and lots more.

I hope that you enjoy this chat with Ale and you can find him at www.alpineitaly.co.uk

Have a great spring

Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski

https://www.snow-pros.ski/summer-ski-camps

 

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> Welcome to episode 34 of The Ski Instructor Podcast and this week's interview is with Alessandro Cambon of Beau Soleil International School and Alpine Italy.

Ale is a BASI level 4 and trainer but is originally from Italy.  We had a lovely chat in his home in Gryon and we covered lots of ground in this podcast including pole vaulting, life and work skiing at an international school and lots more.

I hope that you enjoy this chat with Ale and you can find him at www.alpineitaly.co.uk

Have a great spring

Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski

https://www.snow-pros.ski/summer-ski-camps

 

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 5161 34 full 33 - Federico Sollini, Subzero Coaching, IASI Education 33 - Federico Sollini, Subzero Coaching, IASI Education https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/33-federico-sollini-subzero-coaching-iasi-education/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/33-federico-sollini-subzero-coaching-iasi-education/#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2021 11:02:49 +0100 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/bbe45d7f-de69-3e69-b065-3f817b9ec124 Welcome to episode 33 of The Ski Instructor Podcast.

I recently had the opportunity to speak with Federico Sollini from Subzero Coaching in Zermatt.  Fede runs ski instructor training and physical performance coaching and has worked at high levels with professional athletes as well as aspiring ski instructors.

We talk at length on topics such as why national instructor instructor systems develop in the way that they do, the work that he does at Subzero and blending agility and strength in skiing.

I really enjoyed chatting to Fede and you can reach him at www.subzerocoaching.com

Happy listening

Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski

www.snow-pros.ski

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> Welcome to episode 33 of The Ski Instructor Podcast.

I recently had the opportunity to speak with Federico Sollini from Subzero Coaching in Zermatt.  Fede runs ski instructor training and physical performance coaching and has worked at high levels with professional athletes as well as aspiring ski instructors.

We talk at length on topics such as why national instructor instructor systems develop in the way that they do, the work that he does at Subzero and blending agility and strength in skiing.

I really enjoyed chatting to Fede and you can reach him at www.subzerocoaching.com

Happy listening

Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski

www.snow-pros.ski

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 6020 33 full 32 - Giles Lewis, TDC Val-d'Isere 32 - Giles Lewis, TDC Val-d'Isere https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/32-giles-lewis-tdc-val-disere/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/32-giles-lewis-tdc-val-disere/#comments Sun, 14 Feb 2021 19:41:13 +0100 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/ca534f1b-c8d2-3b51-be3c-5b3f16d038e1 Welcome to Episode 32 of The Ski Instructor Podcast and the one that will take us past 45,000 downloads of the pod.  Every now and then I look at the blog stats and I'm amazed by how many people are listening to this podcast.

This week I have an interview with Giles Lewis of The Development Centre (TDC) in Val-d'Isere.  Giles is also a member of the BASI National Education Team.

We had a great chat on various topics but the real gem in this one is the moguls talk and there are some real nuggets in this interview about bumps skiing and why it is so rewarding.  You'll also find out my guilty secret this winter amongst other things.

You can see Giles at work here in the BASI Level 4 technical standards videos:

https://www.basi.org.uk/BASI/Courses/Alpine/Tech_standards/Alpine_technical_standards.aspx?WebsiteKey=211cffca-c436-4a06-844e-527af5a19586

You can contact Giles at www.tdcski.com

Happy listening

Dave Burrows

SnowPros Ski School

dave@snow-pros.ski

https://www.snow-pros.ski/lessons

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> Welcome to Episode 32 of The Ski Instructor Podcast and the one that will take us past 45,000 downloads of the pod.  Every now and then I look at the blog stats and I'm amazed by how many people are listening to this podcast.

This week I have an interview with Giles Lewis of The Development Centre (TDC) in Val-d'Isere.  Giles is also a member of the BASI National Education Team.

We had a great chat on various topics but the real gem in this one is the moguls talk and there are some real nuggets in this interview about bumps skiing and why it is so rewarding.  You'll also find out my guilty secret this winter amongst other things.

You can see Giles at work here in the BASI Level 4 technical standards videos:

https://www.basi.org.uk/BASI/Courses/Alpine/Tech_standards/Alpine_technical_standards.aspx?WebsiteKey=211cffca-c436-4a06-844e-527af5a19586

You can contact Giles at www.tdcski.com

Happy listening

Dave Burrows

SnowPros Ski School

dave@snow-pros.ski

https://www.snow-pros.ski/lessons

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 5142 32 full 31 - Toby Mallock, Performance Ski School & Powder Extreme, Verbier 31 - Toby Mallock, Performance Ski School & Powder Extreme, Verbier https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/31-toby-mallock-performance-ski-school-powder-extreme-verbier/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/31-toby-mallock-performance-ski-school-powder-extreme-verbier/#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2021 17:26:21 +0100 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/77254ca9-e305-3ef5-910f-47c0ea72f066 Welcome to episode 31 of The Ski Instructor Podcast.  

 

I went to Verbier to meet up with Toby Mallock who runs both Performance Ski School and Powder Extreme.

We had this chat in mid December and so some of the content relating to covid is a little out of date but there is still some great chat about off piste skiing and all things Verbier.

I love these in person chats and I think the fun that we had recording this interview really shines through in the podcast.

You can contact Toby at toby@performanceverbier.com

https://www.performanceverbier.com

https://www.powder-extreme.com

happy listening

Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski

https://www.snow-pros.ski/blog/covid-skiing-switzerland?fbclid=IwAR0KdprAqs4EWVwxxe2KB6JQLFk0mLjKf3OrzCR-xRpHrZsErii1mJ4DZL4

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> Welcome to episode 31 of The Ski Instructor Podcast.  

 

I went to Verbier to meet up with Toby Mallock who runs both Performance Ski School and Powder Extreme.

We had this chat in mid December and so some of the content relating to covid is a little out of date but there is still some great chat about off piste skiing and all things Verbier.

I love these in person chats and I think the fun that we had recording this interview really shines through in the podcast.

You can contact Toby at toby@performanceverbier.com

https://www.performanceverbier.com

https://www.powder-extreme.com

happy listening

Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski

https://www.snow-pros.ski/blog/covid-skiing-switzerland?fbclid=IwAR0KdprAqs4EWVwxxe2KB6JQLFk0mLjKf3OrzCR-xRpHrZsErii1mJ4DZL4

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 4761 31 full 30 - Blair Aitken - British Backcountry 30 - Blair Aitken - British Backcountry https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/30-blair-aitken-british-backcountry/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/30-blair-aitken-british-backcountry/#comments Thu, 24 Dec 2020 15:38:47 +0100 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/22194e28-133a-3508-b747-e5ba93b42f57 Welcome to episode 30 of The Ski Instructor Podcast and this winter's Christmas special.

I had the chance to interview Blair Aitken of British Backcountry and we talked on numerous subjects including his skiing and racing career, Scottish skiing culture and how that has changed in recent years.  We also talk about skiing in the Scottish backcountry and the courses that Blair runs during the winter.  

The sound is a little low on this one so you'll have to turn it up.

I hope you enjoy listening to this interview, I really enjoyed this chat, it's one of my favourites.

I wish you a very merry Christmas and a fruitful and positive 2021.

You can reach Blair at www.british-backcountry.co.uk

Dave

www.snow-pros.ski

dave@snow-pros.ski

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> Welcome to episode 30 of The Ski Instructor Podcast and this winter's Christmas special.

I had the chance to interview Blair Aitken of British Backcountry and we talked on numerous subjects including his skiing and racing career, Scottish skiing culture and how that has changed in recent years.  We also talk about skiing in the Scottish backcountry and the courses that Blair runs during the winter.  

The sound is a little low on this one so you'll have to turn it up.

I hope you enjoy listening to this interview, I really enjoyed this chat, it's one of my favourites.

I wish you a very merry Christmas and a fruitful and positive 2021.

You can reach Blair at www.british-backcountry.co.uk

Dave

www.snow-pros.ski

dave@snow-pros.ski

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 5370 30 full 29 - Alex Armand - Tip Top Ski Coaching, Les Deux Alpes 29 - Alex Armand - Tip Top Ski Coaching, Les Deux Alpes https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/29-alex-armand-tip-top-ski-coaching-les-deux-alpes/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/29-alex-armand-tip-top-ski-coaching-les-deux-alpes/#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2020 12:05:31 +0100 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/dd08eb66-f588-3d8b-8d0f-4e3a515993e4 Welcome to episode 29 of the Ski Instructor Podcast this week featuring Alex Armand from Tip Top Ski Coaching in Les Deux Alpes in France.

In what has turned out to be a very timely interview, we discuss the french state's current position on skiing, Alex's skiing history, brexit (again!), skiing in the mask age and much more.

I really hope that you enjoy this interview.  Alex was a great interviewee and it was a pleasure to speak with her.

You can find Alex at www.tiptopskicoaching.com or search for Tip Top Ski Coaching on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.  

Happy listening

Dave

Dave Burrows

https://www.snow-pros.ski/resorts

dave@snow-pros.ski

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> Welcome to episode 29 of the Ski Instructor Podcast this week featuring Alex Armand from Tip Top Ski Coaching in Les Deux Alpes in France.

In what has turned out to be a very timely interview, we discuss the french state's current position on skiing, Alex's skiing history, brexit (again!), skiing in the mask age and much more.

I really hope that you enjoy this interview.  Alex was a great interviewee and it was a pleasure to speak with her.

You can find Alex at www.tiptopskicoaching.com or search for Tip Top Ski Coaching on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.  

Happy listening

Dave

Dave Burrows

https://www.snow-pros.ski/resorts

dave@snow-pros.ski

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 5454 29 full 28 - Richard Fetherston - Snowbility 28 - Richard Fetherston - Snowbility https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/28-richard-fetherstone-snowbility/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/28-richard-fetherstone-snowbility/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2020 12:26:41 +0100 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/73b2985b-4c17-34b0-92de-2fd2c7d96cf7 Welcome to episode 28 of The Ski Instructor Podcast sponsored by www.kaestle.com 

This week I chat with Richard Fetherston of Snowbility, a company that specialises in inclusive snowsport.  Richard and his team work with skiers of all ages who don't thinking or learn like the rest of us.  I tripped myself up a few times calling this adaptive but it's not that, it's more in the realm of those with learning disabilities.

I chat to Richard about his journey in skiing, how he came to start Snowbility and how it works teaching his clients year round indoors in the Hemel Snowdome.  We also touch on mental health and a couple of tangents to do with golf and sailing.

I hope you enjoy this podcast as much as I did making it.  You can get in touch with Richard at https://snowbility.co.uk

Dave

Dave Burrows

SnowPros Ski School

dave@snow-pros.ski

https://www.snow-pros.ski/blog/covid-skiing-switzerland

 

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> Welcome to episode 28 of The Ski Instructor Podcast sponsored by www.kaestle.com 

This week I chat with Richard Fetherston of Snowbility, a company that specialises in inclusive snowsport.  Richard and his team work with skiers of all ages who don't thinking or learn like the rest of us.  I tripped myself up a few times calling this adaptive but it's not that, it's more in the realm of those with learning disabilities.

I chat to Richard about his journey in skiing, how he came to start Snowbility and how it works teaching his clients year round indoors in the Hemel Snowdome.  We also touch on mental health and a couple of tangents to do with golf and sailing.

I hope you enjoy this podcast as much as I did making it.  You can get in touch with Richard at https://snowbility.co.uk

Dave

Dave Burrows

SnowPros Ski School

dave@snow-pros.ski

https://www.snow-pros.ski/blog/covid-skiing-switzerland

 

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 5924 28 full 27 - Andy Rose - Snow Camps Europe, Kaprun 27 - Andy Rose - Snow Camps Europe, Kaprun https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/27-andy-rose-snowcamps-europe-kaprun/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/27-andy-rose-snowcamps-europe-kaprun/#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2020 16:14:02 +0200 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/b283761b-00d5-3cb4-a743-d41c80a9399f Welcome to episode 27 of The Ski Instructor Podcast sponsored by Kaestle skis.

This week I am joined by Andy Rose of Snow Camps Europe in Kaprun to give us an Austrian perspective on skiing.  I know Andy pretty well and I think this comes across in the relaxed style of this interview.

If you're into cats or dogs, you're in for a treat in the opening of this one before we get down to a long discussion about ski instructor formation in Austria.

In the second half, we cover topics as diverse as old and new Austrian style, skiing in the 80s and eagles.

If you want to catch Andy, you can reach him at; www.snowcampseu.com

info@snowcampseu.com

or search on facebook for Snow Camps Europe.

Happy listening

Dave Burrows

SnowPros Ski School

dave@snow-pros.ski

https://www.snow-pros.ski/ski-instructors

 

Music by www.bensound.com

 

 

]]> Welcome to episode 27 of The Ski Instructor Podcast sponsored by Kaestle skis.

This week I am joined by Andy Rose of Snow Camps Europe in Kaprun to give us an Austrian perspective on skiing.  I know Andy pretty well and I think this comes across in the relaxed style of this interview.

If you're into cats or dogs, you're in for a treat in the opening of this one before we get down to a long discussion about ski instructor formation in Austria.

In the second half, we cover topics as diverse as old and new Austrian style, skiing in the 80s and eagles.

If you want to catch Andy, you can reach him at;
www.snowcampseu.com

info@snowcampseu.com

or search on facebook for Snow Camps Europe.

Happy listening

Dave Burrows

SnowPros Ski School

dave@snow-pros.ski

https://www.snow-pros.ski/ski-instructors

 

Music by www.bensound.com

 

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 6521 27 full 26 - Demian Franzen, Swiss Snowsports Educator and Demo Team, Zermatt Ski Club 26 - Demian Franzen, Swiss Snowsports Educator and Demo Team, Zermatt Ski Club https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/26-demian-franzen-swiss-snowsports-educator-and-demo-team-zermatt-ski-club/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/26-demian-franzen-swiss-snowsports-educator-and-demo-team-zermatt-ski-club/#comments Wed, 23 Sep 2020 12:05:04 +0200 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/275e2ebd-df7f-3fee-a8a8-ef12c4ed0457 Welcome to episode 26 of the podcast and one that will push us through 33,000 downloads!  Thank you for all of you that have been in touch, downloaded the podcast and been a part of it.  Thank you also to www.kaestle.com for their kind sponsorship.

This week I have a recording that was made in late July in Zermatt with Demian Franzen.  Demian is an educator for Swiss Snowsports, was on the Swiss Demo Team until last year and is one hell of a skier as I know from first hand experience!

We talk at length about the Swiss Snowsports qualifications, life on the demo team and his life on the road as a ski racer, as well as the Swiss style and skiing culture in the country.

I always enjoy chatting with Demian.  He's a great guy and this really shows through in this interview.  

If you want to reach or book Demi you can find him at franzendemi@gmx.ch

Happy listening

Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski

SnowPros Ski School

https://www.snow-pros.ski/making-ski-school-easier-parents

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> Welcome to episode 26 of the podcast and one that will push us through 33,000 downloads!  Thank you for all of you that have been in touch, downloaded the podcast and been a part of it.  Thank you also to www.kaestle.com for their kind sponsorship.

This week I have a recording that was made in late July in Zermatt with Demian Franzen.  Demian is an educator for Swiss Snowsports, was on the Swiss Demo Team until last year and is one hell of a skier as I know from first hand experience!

We talk at length about the Swiss Snowsports qualifications, life on the demo team and his life on the road as a ski racer, as well as the Swiss style and skiing culture in the country.

I always enjoy chatting with Demian.  He's a great guy and this really shows through in this interview.  

If you want to reach or book Demi you can find him at franzendemi@gmx.ch

Happy listening

Dave

dave@snow-pros.ski

SnowPros Ski School

https://www.snow-pros.ski/making-ski-school-easier-parents

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 5493 26 full 25 - Julian Griffiths, European Snowsport 25 - Julian Griffiths, European Snowsport https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/julian-griffiths-european-snowsport/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/julian-griffiths-european-snowsport/#comments Mon, 31 Aug 2020 16:34:04 +0200 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/559259dd-9d42-3784-93ca-07c647f43794 This week, I travelled to Verbier to meet for a second interview for the podcast, Julian Griffiths of European Snowsport.  This podcast is sponsored by www.Kaestle.com

This was something of a covid special and in this episode we attempt tomato sense of the season just gone and what skiing will look like this winter for instructors and ski schools.

We also chat about the new regime at BASI.

You can find Julian at www.europeansnowsport.com

Happy listening

Dave Burrows

https://www.snow-pros.ski/get-the-most-out-childs-ski-lessons

dave@snow-pros.ski

music by www.bensound.com

]]> This week, I travelled to Verbier to meet for a second interview for the podcast, Julian Griffiths of European Snowsport.  This podcast is sponsored by www.Kaestle.com

This was something of a covid special and in this episode we attempt tomato sense of the season just gone and what skiing will look like this winter for instructors and ski schools.

We also chat about the new regime at BASI.

You can find Julian at www.europeansnowsport.com

Happy listening

Dave Burrows

https://www.snow-pros.ski/get-the-most-out-childs-ski-lessons

dave@snow-pros.ski

music by www.bensound.com

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 5645 25 full 24 - Lynn Mill - Val D Ski Instructors, BASI Trainer and Demo Team, ex British Ski Team 24 - Lynn Mill - Val D Ski Instructors, BASI Trainer and Demo Team, ex British Ski Team https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/24-lynn-mill-valdskiinstructorscom-basi-trainer-and-demo-team-ex-british-ski-team/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/24-lynn-mill-valdskiinstructorscom-basi-trainer-and-demo-team-ex-british-ski-team/#comments Wed, 05 Aug 2020 14:32:55 +0200 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/672bca5b-4438-395d-ad27-ee997176f8eb Hello and welcome from a sunny Switzerland to Episode 24 of The Ski Instructor Podcast.  This podcast is sponsored by Kaestle Skis www.kaestle.com

This week I have a fun interview with Lynn Mill of Val D Ski Instructors. Lynn is also a BASI trainer and National Education Team member as well as an ex-racer for Great Britain.

We had a brilliant and fun chat about all things skiing and touched on a few female specific issues such as equipment and teaching styles.

Lynn has just become a mother for the first time and we talk about that and how that effects one's skiing.

You can contact Lynn at www.valdskiinstructors.com

I hope you enjoy this episode.

Dave

Dave Burrows

SnowPros Ski School

dave@snow-pros.ski

https://www.snow-pros.ski/get-the-most-out-childs-ski-lessons

 

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> Hello and welcome from a sunny Switzerland to Episode 24 of The Ski Instructor Podcast.  This podcast is sponsored by Kaestle Skis www.kaestle.com

This week I have a fun interview with Lynn Mill of Val D Ski Instructors. Lynn is also a BASI trainer and National Education Team member as well as an ex-racer for Great Britain.

We had a brilliant and fun chat about all things skiing and touched on a few female specific issues such as equipment and teaching styles.

Lynn has just become a mother for the first time and we talk about that and how that effects one's skiing.

You can contact Lynn at www.valdskiinstructors.com

I hope you enjoy this episode.

Dave

Dave Burrows

SnowPros Ski School

dave@snow-pros.ski

https://www.snow-pros.ski/get-the-most-out-childs-ski-lessons

 

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 7287 24 full 23 - Josh Foster - SnowSports Unlimited, CSIA Demo Team and Trainer 23 - Josh Foster - SnowSports Unlimited, CSIA Demo Team and Trainer https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/23-josh-foster-snowsports-unlimited-csia-demo-team-and-trainer/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/23-josh-foster-snowsports-unlimited-csia-demo-team-and-trainer/#comments Fri, 10 Jul 2020 16:03:06 +0200 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/a2a7632e-e217-5ee5-9679-e053a8802e7a Welcome to episode 23 of the ski instructor podcast sponsored by Kästle Skis.  The ski I talked about in this episode is the FX86 - https://www.kaestle.com/en/alpin/skis/show/fx86/

This week, I chat to Josh Foster, former Ski School director at Big White and various other places but now running his own business Snowsports Unlimited.  

We talk on a wide range of topics including the CSIA, the Ski Tips series for Ski TV, Interski, similarities between Ice Hockey and Skiing and a whole bunch more.

I really enjoyed this chat with Josh and I hope that you enjoy listening to it.

You can find Josh at;

https://www.snowsportsunlimited.com

https://www.instagram.com/ssujosh/?hl=en

https://www.facebook.com/snowsportsunlimited/

Happy listening

Dave Burrows

SnowPros Ski School

dave@snow-pros.ski

https://www.snow-pros.ski/why-ski-with-us

 

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> Welcome to episode 23 of the ski instructor podcast sponsored by Kästle Skis.  The ski I talked about in this episode is the FX86 - https://www.kaestle.com/en/alpin/skis/show/fx86/

This week, I chat to Josh Foster, former Ski School director at Big White and various other places but now running his own business Snowsports Unlimited.  

We talk on a wide range of topics including the CSIA, the Ski Tips series for Ski TV, Interski, similarities between Ice Hockey and Skiing and a whole bunch more.

I really enjoyed this chat with Josh and I hope that you enjoy listening to it.

You can find Josh at;

https://www.snowsportsunlimited.com

https://www.instagram.com/ssujosh/?hl=en

https://www.facebook.com/snowsportsunlimited/

Happy listening

Dave Burrows

SnowPros Ski School

dave@snow-pros.ski

https://www.snow-pros.ski/why-ski-with-us

 

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 7355 23 full 22 - Tom Waddington - New Gen Verbier, BASI Alpine Director, Una Lodge, Rip'n'Grip 22 - Tom Waddington - New Gen Verbier, BASI Alpine Director, Una Lodge, Rip'n'Grip https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/22-tom-waddington-new-gen-verbier-basi-alpine-director-una-lodge-ripngrip/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/22-tom-waddington-new-gen-verbier-basi-alpine-director-una-lodge-ripngrip/#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2020 14:36:31 +0200 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/bf1cc544-80aa-5587-a9be-e5596f576a85 Welcome to Episode 22 of The Ski Instructor Podcast sponsored by Kästle Skis.  https://www.kaestle.com/en/

In May I had the chance to go and meet Tom Waddington at his B&B Una Lodge in Le Châble, near Verbier.  I've known Tom for a long time but it was lovely to have the time to sit down with him and chat all things skiing.  

We covered a wide range of topics including what we can learn from the best ski racers, Gap years, rugby/skiing parallels, sportsmen and women as learners and loads more.

I really enjoyed this interview podcast and I hope you do too.  You can find Tom at;

https://www.facebook.com/tomwaddingtonskier/

https://www.instagram.com/tomwaddington_skier/

https://unalodge.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKnqaLJPR8U

Happy listening

Dave Burrows

SnowPros Ski School

dave@snow-pros.ski

https://www.snow-pros.ski/english-ski-school-les-diableret

 

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> Welcome to Episode 22 of The Ski Instructor Podcast sponsored by Kästle Skis.  https://www.kaestle.com/en/

In May I had the chance to go and meet Tom Waddington at his B&B Una Lodge in Le Châble, near Verbier.  I've known Tom for a long time but it was lovely to have the time to sit down with him and chat all things skiing.  

We covered a wide range of topics including what we can learn from the best ski racers, Gap years, rugby/skiing parallels, sportsmen and women as learners and loads more.

I really enjoyed this interview podcast and I hope you do too.  You can find Tom at;

https://www.facebook.com/tomwaddingtonskier/

https://www.instagram.com/tomwaddington_skier/

https://unalodge.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKnqaLJPR8U

Happy listening

Dave Burrows

SnowPros Ski School

dave@snow-pros.ski

https://www.snow-pros.ski/english-ski-school-les-diableret

 

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 5597 22 full 21 - Andi McCann, Alpine McCannix 21 - Andi McCann, Alpine McCannix https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/21-andi-mccann-alpine-mccannix/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/21-andi-mccann-alpine-mccannix/#comments Mon, 18 May 2020 20:59:23 +0200 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/6d20b5b8-7fbc-5ba8-9095-88f23b5cebc3 Welcome to episode 21 of The Ski Instructor Podcast.  This will be the episode that takes us over 25,000 downloads of this podcast and I thank everyone that is taking the time to listen to these.

In this episode, I chat to former BASI trainer Andi McCann who was also my examiner for the Level 3 technical exam a long time ago.  I got a lot out of that exam and some of the things that Andi talked about on that exam have stayed with me ever since and indeed we talk about a couple of them in this episode.

In this episode we also talked about Ron LeMasters' amazing book Ultimate Skiing, which you can find here;

https://amzn.to/2X5THi5 

if you don't have a copy you should, it's probably the best book on ski technique there is.

We also chat about Andi's skiing background, boots, ski poles and the ski caddie.

If you want to get in touch with Andi, you can reach him at andi@mccannix.com

Happy listening

Dave Burrows

SnowPros Ski School

dave@snow-pros.ski

https://www.snow-pros.ski/villars-ski-school

 

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> Welcome to episode 21 of The Ski Instructor Podcast.  This will be the episode that takes us over 25,000 downloads of this podcast and I thank everyone that is taking the time to listen to these.

In this episode, I chat to former BASI trainer Andi McCann who was also my examiner for the Level 3 technical exam a long time ago.  I got a lot out of that exam and some of the things that Andi talked about on that exam have stayed with me ever since and indeed we talk about a couple of them in this episode.

In this episode we also talked about Ron LeMasters' amazing book Ultimate Skiing, which you can find here;

https://amzn.to/2X5THi5 

if you don't have a copy you should, it's probably the best book on ski technique there is.

We also chat about Andi's skiing background, boots, ski poles and the ski caddie.

If you want to get in touch with Andi, you can reach him at andi@mccannix.com

Happy listening

Dave Burrows

SnowPros Ski School

dave@snow-pros.ski

https://www.snow-pros.ski/villars-ski-school

 

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast false No 6782 21 full 20 - Ed Drake, GB Ski Team, Olympian and host of The Ski Racing Podcast 20 - Ed Drake, GB Ski Team, Olympian and host of The Ski Racing Podcast https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/20-ed-drake-gb-ski-team-olympian-and-host-of-the-ski-racing-podcast/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/20-ed-drake-gb-ski-team-olympian-and-host-of-the-ski-racing-podcast/#comments Sat, 25 Apr 2020 16:04:05 +0200 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/97929768-a1ec-53af-984b-3eb34d3fe682 Welcome to episode 20 of The Ski Instructor Podcast.  

Firstly, I can't believe we are on episode 20 and over 24,000 downloads of the podcast and counting.  I want to thank you all for listening to my conversations, thank the guests for their time and knowledge and to thank all of you for listening and getting in touch.

This podcast is with Ed Drake, former Great Britain downhill skier, Olympian and the host of the ever excellent Ski Racing Podcast.  I've been wanting to get hold of Ed for a while and it's not been easy because he's an extremely busy guy but I'm so glad that I did.  

Ed is sponsored by Atomic. I've checked out their Redster boot and it looks really cool; https://amzn.to/2KxJqW5

We had an extensive chat about his career, what he is up to now, falling off a cliff post ski career, coaching and being coached.  There's even some Eurotest chat in there.

You can find Ed via instagram or twitter @eddrake

I hope you enjoy listening to this episode. Dave

Dave Burrows

SnowPros Ski School

www.snow-pros.ski

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> Welcome to episode 20 of The Ski Instructor Podcast.  

Firstly, I can't believe we are on episode 20 and over 24,000 downloads of the podcast and counting.  I want to thank you all for listening to my conversations, thank the guests for their time and knowledge and to thank all of you for listening and getting in touch.

This podcast is with Ed Drake, former Great Britain downhill skier, Olympian and the host of the ever excellent Ski Racing Podcast.  I've been wanting to get hold of Ed for a while and it's not been easy because he's an extremely busy guy but I'm so glad that I did.  

Ed is sponsored by Atomic. I've checked out their Redster boot and it looks really cool;
https://amzn.to/2KxJqW5

We had an extensive chat about his career, what he is up to now, falling off a cliff post ski career, coaching and being coached.  There's even some Eurotest chat in there.

You can find Ed via instagram or twitter @eddrake

I hope you enjoy listening to this episode.
Dave

Dave Burrows

SnowPros Ski School

www.snow-pros.ski

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 5890 20 full 19 - Danny Miller M. Ost, Msc - The Fear Avoidance Model 19 - Danny Miller M. Ost, Msc - The Fear Avoidance Model https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/19-danny-miller-m-ost-msc-the-fear-avoidance-model/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/19-danny-miller-m-ost-msc-the-fear-avoidance-model/#comments Sun, 12 Apr 2020 20:39:55 +0200 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/7abb23c1-0206-5465-9534-c16b5f9f4c6f Welcome to episode 19 of The Ski Instructor Podcast.  This episode is a bit of a departure from normal in that I'm not interviewing a skier.  However, there is lots of ski related chat in the pod and lots of content that relates to and is applicable to skiing.

My conversation this week is with Danny Miller who is a qualified Osteopath and who is halfway through a doctorate in Health Psychology.

This episode flowed out of a late night conversation that I had with Danny after a very enjoyable round of golf in Portugal.  We discussed the concept of The Fear Avoidance Model and how knowledge of this could benefit the young skiers that we work with.

We were due to roll out this as a presentation to groups of young sportsmen and women in various International Schools in our region but corona put paid to that so we decided to make a podcast out of it.

What follows is a long conversation about various topics but the main one being how better we can manage injury when it happens to us through a better mindset.

You can find the slide deck here;

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3ffqj95678f5tkk/DB%20SnowPros.pptx?dl=0

You can find Danny at dannymiller702@yahoo.co.uk

Happy listening

Dave Burrows

SnowPros Ski School

www.snow-pros.ski

 

 

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> Welcome to episode 19 of The Ski Instructor Podcast.  This episode is a bit of a departure from normal in that I'm not interviewing a skier.  However, there is lots of ski related chat in the pod and lots of content that relates to and is applicable to skiing.

My conversation this week is with Danny Miller who is a qualified Osteopath and who is halfway through a doctorate in Health Psychology.

This episode flowed out of a late night conversation that I had with Danny after a very enjoyable round of golf in Portugal.  We discussed the concept of The Fear Avoidance Model and how knowledge of this could benefit the young skiers that we work with.

We were due to roll out this as a presentation to groups of young sportsmen and women in various International Schools in our region but corona put paid to that so we decided to make a podcast out of it.

What follows is a long conversation about various topics but the main one being how better we can manage injury when it happens to us through a better mindset.

You can find the slide deck here;

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3ffqj95678f5tkk/DB%20SnowPros.pptx?dl=0

You can find Danny at dannymiller702@yahoo.co.uk

Happy listening

Dave Burrows

SnowPros Ski School

www.snow-pros.ski

 

 

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 6207 19 full 18 - Joe Beer, Alpine Learning Curves 18 - Joe Beer, Alpine Learning Curves https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/18-joe-beer-alpine-learning-curves/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/18-joe-beer-alpine-learning-curves/#comments Thu, 02 Apr 2020 15:10:15 +0200 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/7f34afa0-0da4-5d73-af4e-39a8bbbc8cdf Episode 18 of The Ski Instructor Podcast features none other than Joe Beer.  I count Joe as a good friend, mentor and all round good guy.  We've skied together not enough in my opinion but every time I do, it's always a mind bending experience.

We talked at length on many topics, skiing, teaching, Andorra, music, telemark and more.

I hope that you enjoy listening to this conversation as much as I enjoyed having it.

You can get in touch with Joe via the following places;

Alpine Learning Curves

https://www.alpinelearningcurves.co.uk/?fbclid=IwAR2I30FtiuostjYfSY1BkD9JS5ThN1Ft-ZBe6R_7GazhOycXp_fxbAa5P54

Joe the Strummer

https://m.facebook.com/JoeLeStrummer/?ref=bookmarks

Joe's excellent book

https://www.blurb.co.uk/b/8987629-free-the-heel-free-the-mind-fix-the-heel-fix-the-p?ebook=676918&fbclid=IwAR3cE_B_puqav--uC-YtKTSW4jxj68fpRY3SdJ0AD7RrRVSNPxNvAhbXn_Q

Cheers Dave

Dave Burrows

Director 

SnowPros Ski School

www.snow-pros.ski

dave@snow-pros.ski

 

music by www.bensound.com

]]> Episode 18 of The Ski Instructor Podcast features none other than Joe Beer.  I count Joe as a good friend, mentor and all round good guy.  We've skied together not enough in my opinion but every time I do, it's always a mind bending experience.

We talked at length on many topics, skiing, teaching, Andorra, music, telemark and more.

I hope that you enjoy listening to this conversation as much as I enjoyed having it.

You can get in touch with Joe via the following places;

Alpine Learning Curves

https://www.alpinelearningcurves.co.uk/?fbclid=IwAR2I30FtiuostjYfSY1BkD9JS5ThN1Ft-ZBe6R_7GazhOycXp_fxbAa5P54

Joe the Strummer

https://m.facebook.com/JoeLeStrummer/?ref=bookmarks

Joe's excellent book

https://www.blurb.co.uk/b/8987629-free-the-heel-free-the-mind-fix-the-heel-fix-the-p?ebook=676918&fbclid=IwAR3cE_B_puqav--uC-YtKTSW4jxj68fpRY3SdJ0AD7RrRVSNPxNvAhbXn_Q

Cheers
Dave

Dave Burrows

Director 

SnowPros Ski School

www.snow-pros.ski

dave@snow-pros.ski

 

music by www.bensound.com

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast false No 5667 18 full 17 - Malcolm Erskine, The British Ski Academy 17 - Malcolm Erskine, The British Ski Academy https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/17-malcolm-erskine-the-british-ski-academy/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/17-malcolm-erskine-the-british-ski-academy/#comments Fri, 20 Mar 2020 20:45:56 +0100 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/c6d75b4a-80af-5788-8cf4-b7b5d559cd90 Welcome to episode 17 of The Ski Instructor Podcast.

These are strange times and if you are as sick to death as I am about Corona news of one type or another, I bring you my latest interview with Malcolm Erskine of the British Ski Academy.

We talk at length about the set up of the academy and how it functions before moving onto some discussion about when specific instruction turns into coaching and a couple of other tangents.  

I hope you enjoy the podcast and because everyone has suddenly become free, I expect to be able to interview a few more people in fairly short order so watch this space.

You can find Malcolm at the British Ski Academy https://www.britskiacad.org.uk

Happy listening

Dave Burrows

Director 

SnowPros Ski School

www.snow-pros.ski

dave@snow-pros.ski

 

music by www.bensound.com

 

 

]]> Welcome to episode 17 of The Ski Instructor Podcast.

These are strange times and if you are as sick to death as I am about Corona news of one type or another, I bring you my latest interview with Malcolm Erskine of the British Ski Academy.

We talk at length about the set up of the academy and how it functions before moving onto some discussion about when specific instruction turns into coaching and a couple of other tangents.  

I hope you enjoy the podcast and because everyone has suddenly become free, I expect to be able to interview a few more people in fairly short order so watch this space.

You can find Malcolm at the British Ski Academy https://www.britskiacad.org.uk

Happy listening

Dave Burrows

Director 

SnowPros Ski School

www.snow-pros.ski

dave@snow-pros.ski

 

music by www.bensound.com

 

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast false No 4497 17 full 16 - Dr Jim Taylor, US Ski Team and World Cup psychologist 16 - Dr Jim Taylor, US Ski Team and World Cup psychologist https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/16-dr-jim-taylor-us-ski-team-and-world-cup-psychologist/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/16-dr-jim-taylor-us-ski-team-and-world-cup-psychologist/#comments Fri, 28 Feb 2020 16:56:14 +0100 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/c151debf-5292-5468-81da-1f5627fe50fc Hello

Welcome to episode 16 from a snowy (finally) alps.  It's been a very weird winter here, lots of early snow and then nothing for the whole of January, followed by a wet and windy February.  Compounding that is Coronavirus cancellations all over the place in March. 

As a welcome diversion, I had a lovely conversation with Dr Jim Taylor who joined me via skype on a stormy night in my office.  There were some connection problems on the line so you might notice some echo on my voice and some cut off answers from Dr Jim.

We had a chat including visualisation and things instructors can do to help clients from a psychological perspective, amongst other things.

You can find Dr Jim at https://www.drjimtaylor.com/4.0/dr-jim-taylor/aboutdrjimtaylor/

I hope you enjoy this episode.

Cheers

Dave

Dave Burrows

Director

SnowPros Ski School

www.snow-pros.ski

dave@snow-pros.ski

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> Hello

Welcome to episode 16 from a snowy (finally) alps.  It's been a very weird winter here, lots of early snow and then nothing for the whole of January, followed by a wet and windy February.  Compounding that is Coronavirus cancellations all over the place in March. 

As a welcome diversion, I had a lovely conversation with Dr Jim Taylor who joined me via skype on a stormy night in my office.  There were some connection problems on the line so you might notice some echo on my voice and some cut off answers from Dr Jim.

We had a chat including visualisation and things instructors can do to help clients from a psychological perspective, amongst other things.

You can find Dr Jim at https://www.drjimtaylor.com/4.0/dr-jim-taylor/aboutdrjimtaylor/

I hope you enjoy this episode.

Cheers

Dave

Dave Burrows

Director

SnowPros Ski School

www.snow-pros.ski

dave@snow-pros.ski

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 3508 16 full 15 - James 'Taco' Tautkus - Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation u14 coach, Piste Off Podcast 15 - James 'Taco' Tautkus - Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation u14 coach, Piste Off Podcast https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/15-james-taco-tautkis-sun-valley-ski-education-foundation-u14-coach-piste-off-podcast/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/15-james-taco-tautkis-sun-valley-ski-education-foundation-u14-coach-piste-off-podcast/#comments Sat, 18 Jan 2020 21:23:48 +0100 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/5f0f5d40-9def-559b-aa66-b48ff5f8943e Welcome to episode 15 of the The Ski Instructor Podcast from a cold and dry Switzerland.

This week I am podcast host and also super fan as I try to contain my excitement when interviewing Taco from the Piste Off Podcast who also happens to be u14s coach at Sun Valley.  I've been listening to Piste Off for years and it's my favourite podcast.

I've been looking forward to doing this podcast for a long time and it didn't disappoint.  It's even improved my own skiing in the last few days.

We chat about the World Cup, Manny Feller, 3 magic points of ski racing, recreational vs racing turns and much more.  It's another long one so strap yourselves in.

If you want to get in touch with Taco, you can find him at;

Instagram - @pisteoffpodcast

https://www.instagram.com/pisteoffpodcast/?hl=bn

or by email at jtautkus@svsef.org

 

Thanks for all of the comments and support

Dave

x

dave@snow-pros.ski

www.snow-pros.ski

 

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> Welcome to episode 15 of the The Ski Instructor Podcast from a cold and dry Switzerland.

This week I am podcast host and also super fan as I try to contain my excitement when interviewing Taco from the Piste Off Podcast who also happens to be u14s coach at Sun Valley.  I've been listening to Piste Off for years and it's my favourite podcast.

I've been looking forward to doing this podcast for a long time and it didn't disappoint.  It's even improved my own skiing in the last few days.

We chat about the World Cup, Manny Feller, 3 magic points of ski racing, recreational vs racing turns and much more.  It's another long one so strap yourselves in.

If you want to get in touch with Taco, you can find him at;

Instagram - @pisteoffpodcast

https://www.instagram.com/pisteoffpodcast/?hl=bn

or by email at jtautkus@svsef.org

 

Thanks for all of the comments and support

Dave

x

dave@snow-pros.ski

www.snow-pros.ski

 

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 5729 1 15 full 14 - Simon Butler, SBSki 14 - Simon Butler, SBSki https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/14-simon-butler-sbski/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/14-simon-butler-sbski/#comments Sat, 21 Dec 2019 14:29:27 +0100 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/14-simon-butler-sbski-37af885ca7c7a9160949582568b4728e This week I travelled to Megeve to speak to Simon Butler.

Simon has just won a very significant court battle with the French state over the right for ski instructors at all levels to work in France.  This series of court cases stemmed from Simon's arrest on the slopes of Megeve in 2013.  He also went to court with the British Association of Snowsports Instructors in 2017 which we discuss in part 2.

In this episode I wanted Simon to have a chance to tell his side of the story and get it on the record completely, without any spin or soundbites that we see in other media and social networks.  I present this to you, the listener, with as minimal comment or opinion from me as I was able to do.

Below I link to Simon's business SB Ski as well as the link to the contact details of Jean-Yves Lapeyrere as mentioned.  You can contact Jean-Yves if you wish you follow the declaration process irrespective of if Brexit applies to you or not.

Thank you for listening this year and I wish you a merry Christmas and a prosperous 2020, as well as lots of powder and bluebird days in the ski season.

Dave

Dave Burrows

SnowPros Ski School

www.snow-pros.ski

dave@snow-pros.ski

 

Simon Butler

www.sbski.com

 

Jean-Yves Lapeyrere

http://francepleinair.fr

jylapeyrere@francepleinair.fr

 

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> This week I travelled to Megeve to speak to Simon Butler.

Simon has just won a very significant court battle with the French state over the right for ski instructors at all levels to work in France.  This series of court cases stemmed from Simon's arrest on the slopes of Megeve in 2013.  He also went to court with the British Association of Snowsports Instructors in 2017 which we discuss in part 2.

In this episode I wanted Simon to have a chance to tell his side of the story and get it on the record completely, without any spin or soundbites that we see in other media and social networks.  I present this to you, the listener, with as minimal comment or opinion from me as I was able to do.

Below I link to Simon's business SB Ski as well as the link to the contact details of Jean-Yves Lapeyrere as mentioned.  You can contact Jean-Yves if you wish you follow the declaration process irrespective of if Brexit applies to you or not.

Thank you for listening this year and I wish you a merry Christmas and a prosperous 2020, as well as lots of powder and bluebird days in the ski season.

Dave

Dave Burrows

SnowPros Ski School

www.snow-pros.ski

dave@snow-pros.ski

 

Simon Butler

www.sbski.com

 

Jean-Yves Lapeyrere

http://francepleinair.fr

jylapeyrere@francepleinair.fr

 

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 6082 14 full 12 - Pete Gillespie, The Snow Centre, IASI 12 - Pete Gillespie, The Snow Centre, IASI https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/12-pete-gillespie-the-snow-centre-iasi/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/12-pete-gillespie-the-snow-centre-iasi/#comments Mon, 09 Dec 2019 15:52:46 +0100 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/12-pete-gillespie-the-snow-centre-iasi-f28421d0dc6267fc1eeaa12fdbc7faa7 Hello from a stormy Swiss alps.

This week I've got a great interview with Pete Gillespie who is the Head of Snowsports at The Snow Centre in Hemel Hempstead in the UK (an indoor real snow slope) as well as International and Education Director at the Irish Association of Snowsports Instructors.

We talk about many diverse topics including skiing in the Balkans, junior race teams going indoors and early season technical focus.

You can find Pete at;

www.thesnowcentre.com

www.alpinecoaching.co.uk

www.iasisnowsports.ie

 

happy listening

Dave Burrows

SnowPros Ski School

dave@snow-pros.ski

www.snow-pros.ski

 

 music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> Hello from a stormy Swiss alps.

This week I've got a great interview with Pete Gillespie who is the Head of Snowsports at The Snow Centre in Hemel Hempstead in the UK (an indoor real snow slope) as well as International and Education Director at the Irish Association of Snowsports Instructors.

We talk about many diverse topics including skiing in the Balkans, junior race teams going indoors and early season technical focus.

You can find Pete at;

www.thesnowcentre.com

www.alpinecoaching.co.uk

www.iasisnowsports.ie

 

happy listening

Dave Burrows

SnowPros Ski School

dave@snow-pros.ski

www.snow-pros.ski

 

 music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 4618 13 full 11 - Jonathan Ballou, Aspen Ski School, PSIA 11 - Jonathan Ballou, Aspen Ski School, PSIA https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/11-jonathan-ballou-aspen-ski-school-psia/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/11-jonathan-ballou-aspen-ski-school-psia/#comments Wed, 20 Nov 2019 15:32:56 +0100 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/11-jonathan-ballou-aspen-ski-school-psia-2284363043d68166906bfdb4c58be23b Welcome to episode 11 from the very snowy Swiss Alps.  You might have heard that there has been some very serious snowfall already in the southern alps with resorts like Saas Fee, Cervinia and Zermatt getting absolutely hosed in the last week.

It's snowy here also in the Western end of the alps and the temperatures are cold. Hopefully this means a good and early start to the season.

This week I have a short interview with Jon Ballou, the Boss of The Aspen Ski School.  That's the title I hear in my head anyway but actually, his full title is Managing Director, Ski and Snowboard Schools, Aspen Skiing Company.  You can find out more about what that all means when you listen to the episode.

We talk about managing such a large operation, teaching trends and a bit of tech.  No podcast with Jon would be complete without a bit of chat about the movie Aspen Extreme too.

You can find Jon on facebook as Jonathan Ballou or on his youtube channel of the same name.

https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.ballou.7

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Ko-b6WfmZWWxyi6rj14hg

I hope you enjoy the episode, see you on the next one.

Dave Burrows

www.snow-pros.ski

dave@snow-pros.ski

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> Welcome to episode 11 from the very snowy Swiss Alps.  You might have heard that there has been some very serious snowfall already in the southern alps with resorts like Saas Fee, Cervinia and Zermatt getting absolutely hosed in the last week.

It's snowy here also in the Western end of the alps and the temperatures are cold. Hopefully this means a good and early start to the season.

This week I have a short interview with Jon Ballou, the Boss of The Aspen Ski School.  That's the title I hear in my head anyway but actually, his full title is Managing Director, Ski and Snowboard Schools, Aspen Skiing Company.  You can find out more about what that all means when you listen to the episode.

We talk about managing such a large operation, teaching trends and a bit of tech.  No podcast with Jon would be complete without a bit of chat about the movie Aspen Extreme too.

You can find Jon on facebook as Jonathan Ballou or on his youtube channel of the same name.

https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.ballou.7

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Ko-b6WfmZWWxyi6rj14hg

I hope you enjoy the episode, see you on the next one.

Dave Burrows

www.snow-pros.ski

dave@snow-pros.ski

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 2972 12 full 10 - Terry Godbout, Elite Skiing 10 - Terry Godbout, Elite Skiing https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/10-terry-godbout-elite-skiing/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/10-terry-godbout-elite-skiing/#comments Sat, 05 Oct 2019 14:04:43 +0200 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/10-terry-godbout-elite-skiing-efee213e18201af0b97b712474b8dcda Hello from a very autumnal Switzerland.

This week I interviewed Terry Godbout who is the founder of the Elite Skiing Facebook Group and www.eliteskiing.com

I finally managed to work out how to make calls over the internet sound ok when I'm recording them and I hope that you enjoy this chat that I had with Terry as much as I did.

He is a guy with a great deal of experience in the ski industry and we spoke at length about the origins of the page and website, as well as his views on subjects including the World Cup, general skiing technique, learning to ski, moguls and much more.

You can find Elite Skiing here https://www.facebook.com/groups/1627711514109344/

and Terry here https://www.facebook.com/terry.godbout

Happy listening

Dave Burrows

SnowPros Ski School

www.snow-pros.ski

dave@snow-pros.ski

 music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> Hello from a very autumnal Switzerland.

This week I interviewed Terry Godbout who is the founder of the Elite Skiing Facebook Group and www.eliteskiing.com

I finally managed to work out how to make calls over the internet sound ok when I'm recording them and I hope that you enjoy this chat that I had with Terry as much as I did.

He is a guy with a great deal of experience in the ski industry and we spoke at length about the origins of the page and website, as well as his views on subjects including the World Cup, general skiing technique, learning to ski, moguls and much more.

You can find Elite Skiing here https://www.facebook.com/groups/1627711514109344/

and Terry here https://www.facebook.com/terry.godbout

Happy listening

Dave Burrows

SnowPros Ski School

www.snow-pros.ski

dave@snow-pros.ski

 music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 4584 11 full 9 - Julian Griffiths, European Snowsports 9 - Julian Griffiths, European Snowsports https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/9-julian-griffiths-european-snowsports/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/9-julian-griffiths-european-snowsports/#comments Fri, 13 Sep 2019 15:16:43 +0200 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/9-julian-griffiths-european-snowsports-1b17d0be44d776b0f5dad9f95c0cadee I hope you had a good summer.

This week, I travelled to Verbier to meet someone I have been wanting to meet for a long time, Julian Griffiths of ES.  

We spoke at great length over coffee and in his office about his history in skiing, Brexit and the history of British and French ski relations in Europe.

I had a great time making this one and I think there is scope for a follow up because we didn't touch on half of what I wanted to talk about.

You can find Julian at www.europeansnowsport.com

Happy listening

Dave Burrows

www.snow-pros.ski

dave@snow-pros.ski

music by www.bensound.com

]]> I hope you had a good summer.

This week, I travelled to Verbier to meet someone I have been wanting to meet for a long time, Julian Griffiths of ES.  

We spoke at great length over coffee and in his office about his history in skiing, Brexit and the history of British and French ski relations in Europe.

I had a great time making this one and I think there is scope for a follow up because we didn't touch on half of what I wanted to talk about.

You can find Julian at www.europeansnowsport.com

Happy listening

Dave Burrows

www.snow-pros.ski

dave@snow-pros.ski

music by www.bensound.com

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 6521 10 full 8 - Phil Brown, Impulse Racing 8 - Phil Brown, Impulse Racing https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/8-phil-brown-impulse-racing/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/8-phil-brown-impulse-racing/#comments Sun, 30 Jun 2019 20:12:06 +0200 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/8-phil-brown-impulse-racing-5b93e53908879c745ff36cfb4ed47e63 I hope you are all having a great summer.  I took a trip over the Grand St Bernard Pass to go and see Phil Brown of Impulse Racing.  Phil is a year round ski race coach and in heavily involved in the UK schools ski racing scene.  

We chat at length about many diverse topics such as skis, running a business, collaboration, the coaching vs instructing and much more.

Phil is a real character and this shines through in our interview.  It was a pleasure to chat to him and I really think you'll enjoy this episode.

You can find Phil at:

Impulse Racing - www.impulse-racing.co.uk

National Schools SnowSports Association - www.schoolsskiracing.co.uk

phil@impulse-racing.co.uk

 

Happy listening

Dave Burrows

SnowPros Ski School - www.snow-pros.ski

dave@snow-pros.ski

music by www.bensound.com

 

 

]]> I hope you are all having a great summer.  I took a trip over the Grand St Bernard Pass to go and see Phil Brown of Impulse Racing.  Phil is a year round ski race coach and in heavily involved in the UK schools ski racing scene.  

We chat at length about many diverse topics such as skis, running a business, collaboration, the coaching vs instructing and much more.

Phil is a real character and this shines through in our interview.  It was a pleasure to chat to him and I really think you'll enjoy this episode.

You can find Phil at:

Impulse Racing - www.impulse-racing.co.uk

National Schools SnowSports Association - www.schoolsskiracing.co.uk

phil@impulse-racing.co.uk

 

Happy listening

Dave Burrows

SnowPros Ski School - www.snow-pros.ski

dave@snow-pros.ski

music by www.bensound.com

 

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 5499 9 full 7 - Tom Gellie, Functional Body 7 - Tom Gellie, Functional Body https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/7-tom-gellie-functional-body/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/7-tom-gellie-functional-body/#comments Tue, 11 Jun 2019 16:40:46 +0200 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/7-tom-gellie-functional-body-f2adf386885cb24ddb3e5d6c4df8bd37 This week for episode 7 I had the pleasure of chatting with Tom Gellie.  Spoiler - the sound quality is not amazing on this one as it was done over Skype.  It gets better though - stick with it.

Tom has represented Australia with APSI at two Interskis, once on Telemark and once on Alpine.

In addition he runs his business, Functional Body, out of Sydney dealing with helping people get out of pain and specialising in perfecting body movement.

We covered lots of topics in our conversation including Tom's personal skiing journey, how the body works, ski equipment including a terrible business idea for someone out there and how having kids impacts your skiing.

If you need to get in touch with Tom you can get him at the following places;

Insta - www.instagram.com/tomgellie/

Facebook - www.facebook.com/functionalbodybalance

web - www.functionalbody.com.au

youtube - tgellie

and finally at the Global Skiing Podcast - www.podcastgarden.com/podcast/globalskiing

 

I hope you enjoy the podcast, I'll catch you on the next one.

Dave Burrows

Director and Founder

SnowPros Ski School

www.snow-pros.ski

dave@snow-pros.ski

 

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> This week for episode 7 I had the pleasure of chatting with Tom Gellie.  Spoiler - the sound quality is not amazing on this one as it was done over Skype.  It gets better though - stick with it.

Tom has represented Australia with APSI at two Interskis, once on Telemark and once on Alpine.

In addition he runs his business, Functional Body, out of Sydney dealing with helping people get out of pain and specialising in perfecting body movement.

We covered lots of topics in our conversation including Tom's personal skiing journey, how the body works, ski equipment including a terrible business idea for someone out there and how having kids impacts your skiing.

If you need to get in touch with Tom you can get him at the following places;

Insta - www.instagram.com/tomgellie/

Facebook - www.facebook.com/functionalbodybalance

web - www.functionalbody.com.au

youtube - tgellie

and finally at the Global Skiing Podcast - www.podcastgarden.com/podcast/globalskiing

 

I hope you enjoy the podcast, I'll catch you on the next one.

Dave Burrows

Director and Founder

SnowPros Ski School

www.snow-pros.ski

dave@snow-pros.ski

 

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 4484 8 full 6 - Scott Pleva, Inside Out Skiing 6 - Scott Pleva, Inside Out Skiing https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/6-scott-pleva-inside-out-skiing/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/6-scott-pleva-inside-out-skiing/#comments Mon, 06 May 2019 14:00:24 +0200 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/6-scott-pleva-inside-out-skiing-4581d4141d283cfd42bc1cc96c81773b I hope you all had a great winter.  It's not all over for some of us though and this week, I chat to Scott Pleva from Inside Out Skiing.

Scott works year round in an indoor Snowdome in Hemel Hempstead in the UK. He also takes his indoor client base on overseas trips to Europe.

We had a really good chat about teaching skiing indoors vs outdoors and went in depth about rules and regulations for teaching skiing in Europe.  We finished off with some big buy skiing chat.

It was awesome to catch up with Scott again, he really is one of the good guys in our industry and I can't wait to get him out here again skiing with us.

You can find Scott though his website at www.insideoutskiing.com

Happy listening

Dave Burrows

www.snow-pros.ski

dave@snow-pros.ski

music by bensound.  www.bensound.com

 

]]> I hope you all had a great winter.  It's not all over for some of us though and this week, I chat to Scott Pleva from Inside Out Skiing.

Scott works year round in an indoor Snowdome in Hemel Hempstead in the UK. He also takes his indoor client base on overseas trips to Europe.

We had a really good chat about teaching skiing indoors vs outdoors and went in depth about rules and regulations for teaching skiing in Europe.  We finished off with some big buy skiing chat.

It was awesome to catch up with Scott again, he really is one of the good guys in our industry and I can't wait to get him out here again skiing with us.

You can find Scott though his website at www.insideoutskiing.com

Happy listening

Dave Burrows

www.snow-pros.ski

dave@snow-pros.ski

music by bensound.  www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 4845 7 full 5 - Derek Tate, IASI Chairman and BASS Chamonix 5 - Derek Tate, IASI Chairman and BASS Chamonix https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/5-derek-tate-iasi-chairman-and-bass-chamonix/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/5-derek-tate-iasi-chairman-and-bass-chamonix/#comments Tue, 16 Apr 2019 19:14:13 +0200 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/5-derek-tate-iasi-chairman-and-bass-chamonix-ff326d7a28d8ce82696cd6abd3f35672 This week I travelled to Saint-Gervais-Les-Bains in the Chamonix Valley to interview Derek Tate, the Chairman of the Irish Association of Snowsports Instructors (IASI) and Director of the British Alpine Ski School (BASS) in the Chamonix Valley.

The Irish created quite an impression this year at Interski and this was down to Derek and his team's hard work and innovative ideas.

We talk extensively about Interski and what came out of it this time around, teaching in the Chamonix Valley, developing flow, dogs and much more.

I hope you enjoy this podcast and if you want to get in touch with Derek, you can get hold of him at the following places;

www.basschamonix.com

www.paralleldreams.co.uk

www.iasisnowsports.com

 

Happy listening

Dave Burrows

SnowPros Ski School

www.snow-pros.ski

dave@snow-pros.ski

 

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> This week I travelled to Saint-Gervais-Les-Bains in the Chamonix Valley to interview Derek Tate, the Chairman of the Irish Association of Snowsports Instructors (IASI) and Director of the British Alpine Ski School (BASS) in the Chamonix Valley.

The Irish created quite an impression this year at Interski and this was down to Derek and his team's hard work and innovative ideas.

We talk extensively about Interski and what came out of it this time around, teaching in the Chamonix Valley, developing flow, dogs and much more.

I hope you enjoy this podcast and if you want to get in touch with Derek, you can get hold of him at the following places;

www.basschamonix.com

www.paralleldreams.co.uk

www.iasisnowsports.com

 

Happy listening

Dave Burrows

SnowPros Ski School

www.snow-pros.ski

dave@snow-pros.ski

 

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 4510 6 full 4 - Warren Smith, Warren Smith Ski Academy - Verbier 4 - Warren Smith, Warren Smith Ski Academy - Verbier https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/4-warren-smith-warren-smith-ski-academy-verbier/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/4-warren-smith-warren-smith-ski-academy-verbier/#comments Tue, 26 Mar 2019 12:03:47 +0100 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/4-warren-smith-warren-smith-ski-academy-verbier-351fbb219ce3041e7e8000e2a6392848 For this episode of the Ski Instructor Podcast, I travelled to Verbier to interview Warren Smith of The Warren Smith Ski Academy.  www.warrensmith-skiacademy.com

This was the end of something of a journey for me because I initially learnt to ski as an instructor with the Academy years ago in Saas Fee and it was great to return to where it all started for me.

We talked about many subjects including fatigue in ski instructors, technique, competition, motorbikes and much more.

Warren is sponsored by Voelkl and skis the new Deacon 74 which you can find here;

https://amzn.to/2KDtS33

I also should mention the causes that Warren supports that he mentions in the interview.

SnowCamp - www.snow-camp.org.uk

Protect our Winters - www.protectourwinters.org

Thank you for listening.

Dave Burrows

SnowPros Ski School

www.snow-pros.ski

music by Bensound www.bensound.com

 

]]> For this episode of the Ski Instructor Podcast, I travelled to Verbier to interview Warren Smith of The Warren Smith Ski Academy.  www.warrensmith-skiacademy.com

This was the end of something of a journey for me because I initially learnt to ski as an instructor with the Academy years ago in Saas Fee and it was great to return to where it all started for me.

We talked about many subjects including fatigue in ski instructors, technique, competition, motorbikes and much more.

Warren is sponsored by Voelkl and skis the new Deacon 74 which you can find here;

https://amzn.to/2KDtS33

I also should mention the causes that Warren supports that he mentions in the interview.

SnowCamp - www.snow-camp.org.uk

Protect our Winters - www.protectourwinters.org

Thank you for listening.

Dave Burrows

SnowPros Ski School

www.snow-pros.ski

music by Bensound www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast false No 3607 1 5 full 3 - Ali MacGrain, Squaw Valley 3 - Ali MacGrain, Squaw Valley https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/3-ali-macgrain-squaw-valley/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/3-ali-macgrain-squaw-valley/#comments Wed, 13 Mar 2019 20:17:33 +0100 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/3-ali-macgrain-squaw-valley-a9052baec39c3b4ec7389234b9eff0ad For this episode, I interview Ali MacGrain, PSIA and NZSIA instructor, trainer and examiner.  Ali just recently moved to a new role at Squaw Valley in the USA having previously worked at Northstar, Mammoth, Cardrona, Verbier to name but a few.

We talk in this episode about differences in national styles and teaching between systems, a bit of tech chat, where the money goes for an all day private lesson in US resorts and much more.

It was a real pleasure catching up with Ali again and I hope you enjoy listening to the podcast as much as I did making it.

You can get in touch with Ali via Facebook @alimacgrain

 

Thank you for listening and see you on the next one.

Dave Burrows

Director and Owner - SnowPros Ski School

www.snow-pros.ski

dave@snow-pros.ski

 

music by www.bensound.com

 

 

]]> For this episode, I interview Ali MacGrain, PSIA and NZSIA instructor, trainer and examiner.  Ali just recently moved to a new role at Squaw Valley in the USA having previously worked at Northstar, Mammoth, Cardrona, Verbier to name but a few.

We talk in this episode about differences in national styles and teaching between systems, a bit of tech chat, where the money goes for an all day private lesson in US resorts and much more.

It was a real pleasure catching up with Ali again and I hope you enjoy listening to the podcast as much as I did making it.

You can get in touch with Ali via Facebook @alimacgrain

 

Thank you for listening and see you on the next one.

Dave Burrows

Director and Owner - SnowPros Ski School

www.snow-pros.ski

dave@snow-pros.ski

 

music by www.bensound.com

 

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 5626 4 full 2 - Jaz Lamb, BASS Morzine, BASI National Education Team 2 - Jaz Lamb, BASS Morzine, BASI National Education Team https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/2-jaz-lamb-bass-morzine-basi-national-education-team/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/2-jaz-lamb-bass-morzine-basi-national-education-team/#comments Mon, 25 Feb 2019 17:45:36 +0100 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/2-jaz-lamb-bass-morzine-basi-national-education-team-799d0203e51655ccf8d2986b2cdf7739 In this episode I interview Jaz Lamb.  Jaz is the Director of BASS (British Alpine Ski School) in Morzine as well as the Director of the BASI (British Association of Ski Instructors) National Education Team.

Jaz talks at length about his history in skiing, BASI's involvement in the upcoming Interski Congress in Bulgaria, ski instructors and business and much more.

We also chatted about ski pole length.  These are the amazing Komperdell poles that I use;

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B014D18IXC/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=B014D18IXC&linkCode=as2&tag=davesnowpros-21&linkId=8f9729560e44adc702eaa94fca6f5bbf

I think Jaz gave a great interview and was a super interesting guy to talk to.

You can find out more about Jaz here;

https://www.britishskischool.com/BASS_Resorts/Morzine

 

Thanks for listening!

Dave Burrows

www.snow-pros.ski

 

music from www.bensound.com

 

]]> In this episode I interview Jaz Lamb.  Jaz is the Director of BASS (British Alpine Ski School) in Morzine as well as the Director of the BASI (British Association of Ski Instructors) National Education Team.

Jaz talks at length about his history in skiing, BASI's involvement in the upcoming Interski Congress in Bulgaria, ski instructors and business and much more.

We also chatted about ski pole length.  These are the amazing Komperdell poles that I use;

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B014D18IXC/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=B014D18IXC&linkCode=as2&tag=davesnowpros-21&linkId=8f9729560e44adc702eaa94fca6f5bbf

I think Jaz gave a great interview and was a super interesting guy to talk to.

You can find out more about Jaz here;

https://www.britishskischool.com/BASS_Resorts/Morzine

 

Thanks for listening!

Dave Burrows

www.snow-pros.ski

 

music from www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast false No 5614 1 3 full 1 - Phil Smith, Snoworks 1 - Phil Smith, Snoworks https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/1-phil-smith-snoworks/ https://theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/e/1-phil-smith-snoworks/#comments Mon, 04 Feb 2019 14:34:02 +0100 theskiinstructorpodcast.podbean.com/1-phil-smith-snoworks-5e9af42e18f2df1cedc236df74b8e224 In this, the very first episode of The Ski Instructor podcast, I interview Phil Smith who was here in Champery/Les Crosets for the Welsh Championships.

Phil and I talked on a wide variety of topics, the old wild west days of early British ski instructors in France, cultural differences as well as Phil's own unique spin on open and close learning environments.  You can find out more about Phil in the links below.

I've got more great interviews coming up and I hope you enjoy listening to this as much as I did recording it.

Dave Burrows

Director and Owner - SnowPros Ski School

www.snow-pros.ski

 

Phil Smith - Snoworks, Tignes

www.snoworks.co.uk

 

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> In this, the very first episode of The Ski Instructor podcast, I interview Phil Smith who was here in Champery/Les Crosets for the Welsh Championships.

Phil and I talked on a wide variety of topics, the old wild west days of early British ski instructors in France, cultural differences as well as Phil's own unique spin on open and close learning environments.  You can find out more about Phil in the links below.

I've got more great interviews coming up and I hope you enjoy listening to this as much as I did recording it.

Dave Burrows

Director and Owner - SnowPros Ski School

www.snow-pros.ski

 

Phil Smith - Snoworks, Tignes

www.snoworks.co.uk

 

music by www.bensound.com

 

]]> The Ski Instructor Podcast true No 4490 2 full